Address the human and organisational factors that make safety policy documentation fail.
Managing Documentation of Occupational Safety Policies and Procedures
Build a working method for safety policy documentation that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Regulators judge safety policy documentation on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. Almost every serious incident involving this area of occupational health and safety was preceded by a signal somebody noticed and nobody escalated. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in this aspect of occupational health and safety that were visible long before the incident. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from safety policy documentation, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. Participants finish able to explain the occupational health and safety discipline to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The course gives participants a defensible structure for the occupational health and safety capability and the judgement to adapt it. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for safety policy documentation. The difficulty is not agreeing that this part of occupational health and safety matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make the wider occupational health and safety agenda sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build the internal capability for safety policy documentation rather than depending on external support indefinitely.
Build the safety case or justification supporting safety policy documentation.
Identify the failure points in safety policy documentation most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Investigate incidents involving safety policy documentation to root cause without suppressing reporting.
Prepare the evidence a regulator would expect to see on safety policy documentation.
Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around safety policy documentation.
Who Should Attend
Quality staff verifying that safety policy documentation performs as designed.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from safety policy documentation.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for safety policy documentation.
Training officers building competence in safety policy documentation.
Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering safety policy documentation.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting safety policy documentation.
Course Modules
Safety policy documentation: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making near-miss reporting on safety policy documentation safe to do
- Define the trigger that would require safety policy documentation to be redesigned.
- Confirm that controls on safety policy documentation sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when safety policy documentation underperforms.
- Identify where judgement in safety policy documentation is legitimate and where it is not.
Session 2Checking that protective equipment for safety policy documentation actually protects
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on safety policy documentation.
- Investigate the last incident involving safety policy documentation to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Ask the people doing safety policy documentation what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about safety policy documentation.
Safety policy documentation: occupational health and long-term exposure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Auditing safety policy documentation in the field rather than in the file
- Set leading indicators for safety policy documentation that predict rather than count.
- Record who is authorised to work on safety policy documentation and when authorisation expires.
- Establish the boundary of safety policy documentation and record what sits outside it.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to safety policy documentation will be introduced.
Session 2Reading the current state of safety policy documentation honestly
- Agree the smallest change to safety policy documentation that would be visibly useful.
- Verify permits covering safety policy documentation are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for safety policy documentation, do not just publish it.
- Test that protective equipment specified for safety policy documentation fits and is maintained.
Safety policy documentation: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for safety policy documentation step by step
- Assess long-term health exposure created by safety policy documentation and arrange surveillance.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in safety policy documentation short and non-punitive.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in safety policy documentation is current.
- Check that records of safety policy documentation answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Closing out safety policy documentation and capturing what was learned
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to safety policy documentation.
- Check that lessons from safety policy documentation reached other sites doing similar work.
- Check that safety policy documentation still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for safety policy documentation.
Safety policy documentation: procedures, permits and practical controls
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Assessing the hazards in safety policy documentation without turning it into paperwork
- Test the procedure for safety policy documentation against a realistic scenario.
- Audit application of safety policy documentation controls at the workface.
- Identify the hazards in safety policy documentation and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Check the procedure for safety policy documentation against how the work is actually done.
Session 2The exposure from safety policy documentation that shows up years later
- Set out how exceptions to safety policy documentation are requested and approved.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in safety policy documentation.
- Build the internal briefing that explains safety policy documentation to those affected.
- Set the review interval for safety policy documentation and who attends.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
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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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