Set a realistic target state for occupational health and safety management systems and a defensible route to it.
The Occupational Health and Safety Management System
An applied course in occupational health and safety management systems built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
Course Overview
Regulators judge occupational health and safety management systems on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. Almost every serious incident involving management systems was preceded by a signal somebody noticed and nobody escalated. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from the occupational health and safety capability, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with occupational health and safety management systems. Buying a tool rarely fixes this strand of occupational health and safety; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting management systems, ready to be adapted internally. It establishes a shared vocabulary for occupational health and safety management systems so that teams can disagree productively about it. The professional literature on management systems converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this aspect of occupational health and safety survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Close out corrective actions on management systems rather than leaving them open.
Prepare the evidence a regulator would expect to see on occupational health and safety management systems.
Address the human and organisational factors that make management systems fail.
Assess occupational health exposure arising from occupational health and safety management systems and arrange surveillance.
Select indicators that show whether management systems is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Define the scope and boundaries of occupational health and safety management systems so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Who Should Attend
Occupational health practitioners monitoring exposure from occupational health and safety management systems.
Training officers building competence in management systems.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by occupational health and safety management systems.
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on management systems.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for occupational health and safety management systems.
Facility and plant managers accountable for management systems.
Course Modules
Occupational health and safety management systems: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Checking that protective equipment for occupational health and safety management systems actually protects
- Estimate the resource occupational health and safety management systems requires to run as designed.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for management systems are proven before work starts.
- Ask the people doing occupational health and safety management systems what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in management systems is current.
Session 2Holding contractors on management systems to your own standard
- Check that records of occupational health and safety management systems answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Test that protective equipment specified for management systems fits and is maintained.
- Close out actions on occupational health and safety management systems rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Check the procedure for management systems against how the work is actually done.
Management systems: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Auditing management systems in the field rather than in the file
- Confirm that controls on occupational health and safety management systems sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Set out how exceptions to management systems are requested and approved.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when occupational health and safety management systems underperforms.
- Benchmark the organisation's management systems against comparable operations.
Session 2The paperwork for management systems that is actually needed
- Investigate the last incident involving occupational health and safety management systems to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Close out corrective actions on management systems with a named owner and date.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to occupational health and safety management systems will be introduced.
- Record who is authorised to work on management systems and when authorisation expires.
Management systems: occupational health and long-term exposure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making near-miss reporting on management systems safe to do
- Establish the boundary of occupational health and safety management systems and record what sits outside it.
- Define acceptance criteria for management systems in advance.
- Identify the hazards in occupational health and safety management systems and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on management systems.
Session 2The permit regime occupational health and safety management systems needs, and the one it does not
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for occupational health and safety management systems, do not just publish it.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting management systems.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about occupational health and safety management systems.
- Prepare the summary of management systems that senior management will read.
Management systems: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing management systems with recognised practice
- Rehearse the briefing on occupational health and safety management systems that would follow an incident.
- Set leading indicators for management systems that predict rather than count.
- Reduce the variation in how occupational health and safety management systems is carried out between teams.
- Audit application of management systems controls at the workface.
Session 2Getting other functions to support management systems
- Set escalation thresholds for occupational health and safety management systems that work out of hours.
- Record what was learned when management systems did not go as planned.
- Confirm that those complying with occupational health and safety management systems understand why it exists.
- Verify permits covering management systems are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
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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