Designing Strategies for Involving Workers in Safety Decisions

An applied course in worker involvement in safety decisions built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Almost every serious incident involving worker involvement in safety decisions was preceded by a signal somebody noticed and nobody escalated. Where safety decisions depends on the vigilance of one experienced person, it is not yet a system. Where the occupational health and safety discipline is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. Participants leave with a method for worker involvement in safety decisions, not a set of opinions about it. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of this aspect of occupational health and safety rather than to abstract argument. The level assumes working familiarity with the work site but no prior formal training in safety decisions. Progress on worker involvement in safety decisions is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of safety decisions to standardise and which to leave flexible. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make the practice within occupational health and safety sustainable.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on worker involvement in safety decisions.

02

Select and verify the protective equipment required for safety decisions.

03

Set the minimum documentation for worker involvement in safety decisions that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

04

Integrate safety decisions into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

05

Set acceptance criteria for worker involvement in safety decisions before work begins rather than after.

06

Plan the training and refresher cycle sustaining competence in safety decisions.

07

Prepare the evidence a regulator would expect to see on worker involvement in safety decisions.

Who Should Attend

01

Consultants and advisers supporting clients on worker involvement in safety decisions.

02

Occupational health practitioners monitoring exposure from safety decisions.

03

Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering worker involvement in safety decisions.

04

Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for safety decisions.

05

Analysts producing the data on which decisions about worker involvement in safety decisions rest.

06

Site and operations supervisors applying safety decisions daily.

Course Modules

01

Worker involvement in safety decisions: reporting, investigation and root cause

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Who is competent to work on worker involvement in safety decisions, and how you know

  • Investigate the last incident involving worker involvement in safety decisions to root cause, not to immediate cause.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of safety decisions current.
  • Audit application of worker involvement in safety decisions controls at the workface.
  • Remove steps in safety decisions that add effort without adding assurance.

Session 2The hard cases in safety decisions and how to reason about them

  • Build the internal briefing that explains worker involvement in safety decisions to those affected.
  • Confirm that controls on safety decisions sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
  • Make the reporting route for hazards in worker involvement in safety decisions short and non-punitive.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether safety decisions is improving.
02

Safety decisions: contractors and shared workplaces

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The exposure from safety decisions that shows up years later

  • Close out corrective actions on worker involvement in safety decisions with a named owner and date.
  • Verify permits covering safety decisions are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for worker involvement in safety decisions.
  • Confirm that those complying with safety decisions understand why it exists.

Session 2Building the method for safety decisions step by step

  • Check the procedure for worker involvement in safety decisions against how the work is actually done.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to safety decisions.
  • Identify the hazards in worker involvement in safety decisions and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
  • Set leading indicators for safety decisions that predict rather than count.
03

Safety decisions: leading indicators, audit and assurance

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Making near-miss reporting on safety decisions safe to do

  • Rehearse the briefing on worker involvement in safety decisions that would follow an incident.
  • Build the competence framework that supports safety decisions.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to worker involvement in safety decisions will be introduced.
  • Confirm that reporting on safety decisions reaches the people who can act.

Session 2Writing a procedure for worker involvement in safety decisions people can follow at 3 a.m.

  • Ask the people doing worker involvement in safety decisions what makes the procedure hard to follow.
  • Check that lessons from safety decisions reached other sites doing similar work.
  • Verify contractor competence and method statements for worker involvement in safety decisions.
  • Record who is authorised to work on safety decisions and when authorisation expires.
04

Safety decisions: protective equipment and its verification

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Escalation and decision rights in safety decisions

  • Agree the smallest change to worker involvement in safety decisions that would be visibly useful.
  • Agree what will be standardised in safety decisions and what will not.
  • Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for worker involvement in safety decisions, do not just publish it.
  • Test that protective equipment specified for safety decisions fits and is maintained.

Session 2Investigating an incident involving safety decisions without hunting for blame

  • Assess long-term health exposure created by worker involvement in safety decisions and arrange surveillance.
  • Map the handovers in safety decisions between functions and secure them.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates worker involvement in safety decisions is under control.
  • Name a single owner for each element of safety decisions.

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At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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