Close out corrective actions on voluntary hazard reporting rather than leaving them open.
Designing Voluntary Hazard Reporting Systems Within the Organisation
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run voluntary hazard reporting properly.
Course Overview
Safety performance on voluntary hazard reporting degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. The cost of an incident involving the practice within occupational health and safety lands on production, insurance, licence and reputation at once. It is written for people who have to make the occupational health and safety capability work with the resources they already have. Organisations that document voluntary hazard reporting properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. Most organisations already have a policy on the occupational health and safety discipline; far fewer can show it working. Participants gain a realistic view of what the practice within occupational health and safety costs and what it returns. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of voluntary hazard reporting and supervised application. Participants leave with a method for this part of occupational health and safety, not a set of opinions about it. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the occupational health and safety discipline that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Align voluntary hazard reporting with the wider objectives of the work site rather than optimising it in isolation.
Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on voluntary hazard reporting.
Integrate voluntary hazard reporting into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Compare the organisation's handling of voluntary hazard reporting with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
Investigate incidents involving voluntary hazard reporting to root cause without suppressing reporting.
Carry out a structured risk assessment of voluntary hazard reporting and rank findings by consequence.
Who Should Attend
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from voluntary hazard reporting.
Internal auditors verifying controls over voluntary hazard reporting.
Specialists advising senior management on voluntary hazard reporting.
Human resources staff handling the people consequences of voluntary hazard reporting.
Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around voluntary hazard reporting.
Facility and plant managers accountable for voluntary hazard reporting.
Course Modules
Voluntary hazard reporting: contractors and shared workplaces
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for voluntary hazard reporting that is actually needed
- Set out how exceptions to voluntary hazard reporting are requested and approved.
- Identify the hazards in voluntary hazard reporting and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by voluntary hazard reporting and arrange surveillance.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on voluntary hazard reporting.
Session 2Who is competent to work on voluntary hazard reporting, and how you know
- Set the review interval for voluntary hazard reporting and who attends.
- Build the internal briefing that explains voluntary hazard reporting to those affected.
- Close out actions on voluntary hazard reporting rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Set out the decisions in voluntary hazard reporting that require sign-off and by whom.
Voluntary hazard reporting: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for voluntary hazard reporting, and to whom
- Test that protective equipment specified for voluntary hazard reporting fits and is maintained.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in voluntary hazard reporting short and non-punitive.
- Establish the boundary of voluntary hazard reporting and record what sits outside it.
- Benchmark the organisation's voluntary hazard reporting against comparable operations.
Session 2Rescue arrangements for voluntary hazard reporting that have been rehearsed
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for voluntary hazard reporting.
- Set leading indicators for voluntary hazard reporting that predict rather than count.
- Arrange the handover of voluntary hazard reporting so capability survives staff changes.
- Close out corrective actions on voluntary hazard reporting with a named owner and date.
Voluntary hazard reporting: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding contractors on voluntary hazard reporting to your own standard
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when voluntary hazard reporting underperforms.
- Remove steps in voluntary hazard reporting that add effort without adding assurance.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on voluntary hazard reporting.
- Investigate the last incident involving voluntary hazard reporting to root cause, not to immediate cause.
Session 2Making voluntary hazard reporting work when resources are constrained
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for voluntary hazard reporting.
- Check the procedure for voluntary hazard reporting against how the work is actually done.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for voluntary hazard reporting, do not just publish it.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting voluntary hazard reporting.
Voluntary hazard reporting: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Assessing the hazards in voluntary hazard reporting without turning it into paperwork
- Define the trigger that would require voluntary hazard reporting to be redesigned.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in voluntary hazard reporting is current.
- Name a single owner for each element of voluntary hazard reporting.
- Verify permits covering voluntary hazard reporting are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
Session 2Checking that protective equipment for voluntary hazard reporting actually protects
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for voluntary hazard reporting are proven before work starts.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for voluntary hazard reporting.
- Compare the cost of voluntary hazard reporting with the cost of its absence.
- Record who is authorised to work on voluntary hazard reporting and when authorisation expires.
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- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- 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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