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Course

Week

Course Name

Syllabus

Course 1

Week 1

Principles of Control

  • Introduction 

  • Hazard Basics

  • Hierarchy of Risk Control

    • Elimination or Substitution

    • Changing Work Methods/Patterns

    • Reduced Time Exposure

    • Engineering Controls

    • Housekeeping 

    • Safe Systems of Work

    • Training and Information (Admin)

    • Monitoring and Supervision

    • PPE

    • Applying to COVID-19 

  • Technology for Hierarchy of Control

Week 2

  • Controlling Health Risks

    • Types of health risk

    • Control hierarchy for exposure to hazardous substances

    • Assessing exposure and health surveillance

    • ProcessMAP Technology

  • Safe Systems of Work

    • What is a safe system of work?

    • Assessment of what safe systems of work are required

    • Development of safe systems

    • Preparation for safe systems

    • Documentation

    • Communication and training

    • Monitoring safe systems

Week 3

  • Lone Workers

  • PTW (Permit to Work)

    • Permit to work Procedures

    • Principles

    • Work requiring a permit

    • Responsibilities

  • Emergency Procedures

    • Introduction

    • Fire routines and fire notices

    • Supervisory duties

    • Assembly and roll call

    • Contacting Emergency Services

Week 4

  • First Aid at Work

    • Aspects to Consider

    • Impact on First-Aid Provision if Risks are Significant

    • Appointed Persons

  • Safe movement of people in the workplace

    • Hazards in the Workplace

      • Slips, Trips and Falls on the Same Level, 

      • Falls from Height, 

      • Collisions with Moving Vehicles, 

      • Being Struck by Moving, Falling or Flying Objects 

      • Striking against Fixed or Stationary Objects

Course 2

Week 1

Maximizing Incident Investigation to Prevent Recurrence

  • Investigating Incidents

    • Role and function of incident investigation

    • Types of incident or adverse events

    • Which incidents/accidents should be investigated?

    • Incident investigation procedures

      • Initial Action

      • Investigation Method

      • Investigation interview techniques

Week 2

  • Investigating Incidents

    • Incident Causes and analysis

      • Immediate causes

      • Underlying and root causes

      • Comparison with relevant standards

      • Simple root cause analysis – The five whys

    • Remedial actions

      • Investigation form

      • Key data for medium level of investigation

    • Lessons learnt from an incident

Week 3

  • Recording and reporting incidents

    • Statutory requirements

      • Accident Book / Log

      • OSHA / RIDDOR

    • Internal systems for collecting and analyzing incident data

      • Type of accident/incident

      • Analysis

      • Incident Rates

    • Collection of information, compensation and insurance issues