Write procedures for pressure management in high-risk work that can be followed under real operating pressure.
Managing Work Pressure in Continuously High-Risk Environments
A structured, applied course in pressure management in high-risk work — designed to be used the week you return.
Course Overview
The cost of an incident involving pressure management in high-risk work lands on production, insurance, licence and reputation at once. Regulators judge high-risk work on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. The programme works equally well for those formalising the occupational health and safety discipline for the first time and those improving an existing approach. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of pressure management in high-risk work to standardise and which to leave flexible. The most reliable predictor of sound the practice within occupational health and safety is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. Participants leave with a method for high-risk work, not a set of opinions about it. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make pressure management in high-risk work hard in practice. Buying a tool rarely fixes high-risk work; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants leave with a plan for the occupational health and safety discipline sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on high-risk work.
Handle the trade-offs in pressure management in high-risk work between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Estimate what high-risk work costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Design emergency response and rescue arrangements covering pressure management in high-risk work.
Investigate incidents involving high-risk work to root cause without suppressing reporting.
Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around pressure management in high-risk work.
Who Should Attend
Emergency response and rescue team leaders covering pressure management in high-risk work.
Engineering and maintenance staff whose work involves high-risk work.
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on pressure management in high-risk work.
Department heads accountable for the results of high-risk work.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from pressure management in high-risk work.
Occupational health practitioners monitoring exposure from high-risk work.
Course Modules
Pressure management in high-risk work: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Auditing pressure management in high-risk work in the field rather than in the file
- Confirm that contractual obligations around pressure management in high-risk work are understood.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in high-risk work is current.
- Audit application of pressure management in high-risk work controls at the workface.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for high-risk work.
Session 2Making near-miss reporting on high-risk work safe to do
- Close out actions on pressure management in high-risk work rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Confirm that controls on high-risk work sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting pressure management in high-risk work.
- Identify the hazards in high-risk work and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
High-risk work: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The permit regime high-risk work needs, and the one it does not
- Check the procedure for pressure management in high-risk work against how the work is actually done.
- Compare the cost of high-risk work with the cost of its absence.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in pressure management in high-risk work.
- Arrange the handover of high-risk work so capability survives staff changes.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in high-risk work
- Anticipate the objections pressure management in high-risk work will raise and prepare the answers.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for high-risk work are proven before work starts.
- Check that lessons from pressure management in high-risk work reached other sites doing similar work.
- Map the handovers in high-risk work between functions and secure them.
High-risk work: procedures, permits and practical controls
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Testing high-risk work before relying on it
- Confirm that reporting on pressure management in high-risk work reaches the people who can act.
- Check that records of high-risk work answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for pressure management in high-risk work, do not just publish it.
- Build the internal briefing that explains high-risk work to those affected.
Session 2The cost of pressure management in high-risk work and how to present it
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for pressure management in high-risk work.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by high-risk work and arrange surveillance.
- Record who is authorised to work on pressure management in high-risk work and when authorisation expires.
- Agree what will be standardised in high-risk work and what will not.
High-risk work: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating an incident involving high-risk work without hunting for blame
- Identify single points of dependency in pressure management in high-risk work and reduce them.
- Ask the people doing high-risk work what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Set leading indicators for pressure management in high-risk work that predict rather than count.
- Remove steps in high-risk work that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2Who is competent to work on high-risk work, and how you know
- Estimate the resource pressure management in high-risk work requires to run as designed.
- Define the trigger that would require high-risk work to be redesigned.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in pressure management in high-risk work short and non-punitive.
- Test that protective equipment specified for high-risk work fits and is maintained.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- 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
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 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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