Course

Week

Course Name

Syllabus

Course 1

Week 1

Principles of Control

1.1 Introduction & Basic Definitions

1.2 Principles of prevention

1.3  Hierarchy of risk control

       1.3.1 Elimination or Substitution

       1.3.2  Changing work methods/patterns

       1.3.3  Reduced Time Exposure

       1.3.4  Engineering Controls

       1.3.5 Housekeeping

• 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)

       1.3.9  Welfare

• • Monitoring and Supervision

       1.3.11 Review

• • PPE

  • Applying to COVID-19 

• Technology for Hierarchy of Control

Week 2 1.4

• 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

         1.5.6  Documentation

• • Documentation

  • Communication and training

• • Monitoring safe systems

Week 31.6 

• Lone Workers

• PTW (Permit to Work)

• • Permit to work Procedures

• • Principles

• • Work requiring a permit

        1.7.4  Responsibilities

• • Responsibilities

• Emergency Procedures

• • Introduction

• • Fire routines and fire notices

• • Supervisory duties

• • Assembly and roll call

        1.8.5 Fire notices

        1.8.6 Testing

        1.8.7 Fire drills

• • Contacting Emergency Services

Week 41.9

• First Aid at Work

• • Aspects to

• • Consider

• • Impact on

         1.9.4 Contents of the first aid box

         1.9.5 Appointed persons

          1.9.6 A first Responder (First Aider)

• • 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

• Basics of Incidents and Investigations

  • Types of incident or adverse events

  • Incident Causation Theories

  • Role and function of incident investigation

• Conducting Investigations

  • Which incidents should be investigated?

  • Initiating Investigation

    • Immediate response activities

    • Selecting investigation team

    • Preserving and gathering data

    • Investigation interview techniques

Week 2

• Conducting Investigations Continued

  • Investigation Methods/ Analyzing Incident Data

  • Identifying Root Causes

    • Immediate causes

    • Underlying and Root Causes

    • Comparison with Relevant Standards

  • Developing Recommendations and Actions

    • Defining Quality Recommendations

    • Levels of Recommendations

    • Responsibilities

    • Assessing the Effectiveness

Week 3

• Legal and Other Considerations

  • Legal Guidelines

    • Dos and Don’ts

    • Regulatory Requirements

    • Agency Inspections

  • Media Guidelines

• Analysis and Data Trending

  • Why: See the Big Picture

  • Types of Data

  • Analysis of Data

  • Interpreting Trends

• Communications and Lessons Learnt 

Course 3

Week 1

Safe Permit to Work Systems: Effectively Managing High Risk Activities

• Permit to Work System Overview

• Covered High Risk Activities

  • Confined Spaces

  • Hot Work

  • Excavation

  • Work from Heights

  • Work in Hazardous Areas

• Elements of a Permit

• Implementing an Effective Permit to Work System

  •  Identification of High Risk Activities

  • Training and Awareness

  • Auditing

•  Failure to Implement a Permit to Work System

  • Case Study

Week 2

• Challenges of Paper Based Systems

• Advantages of Electronic Systems

• What to Look for When Selecting a System

• ProcessMAP Permit to Work System

Course 4

Week 1

Communicating Health & Safety Performance in a Meaningful Way

Understanding Health & Safety Data Analytics

• Understanding how ACT (Accurate, Complete, and Timely) data is the linchpin of Health & Safety performance success

• Identifying your key stakeholders and understanding their specific needs

• Aligning data analytics to your Health & Safety goals and objectives

• De-mystifying data analytics by clearly differentiating metrics from visualization 

• Getting a sneak peek at how data analytics engines work under the hood

• Using data discovery to find the answers to the questions asked by your stakeholders

Week 2

Developing a Health & Safety Performance Program

• Problems and Limitations of Traditional H&S Measurement

• Health & Safety Performance Metrics

• PLAN:  Developing a Health & Safety Performance Program

• DO:  Communicating & Implementing your Performance Program

• CHECK: Reporting & Analyzing Performance

• ACT:  Creating a Data Use Plan

Week 3

Communicating Health & Safety Performance

• Importance of Data Quality (Bill suggested, also Kiran may be able to provide examples)

• Communicating data to non-data-scientist using data visualization

• Automation and proactive communication

• Advanced data visualizations to communicate Health & Safety performance

• Listen to the story that your Health & Safety data is telling you! 

  • Examples and case studies 

• Wrap up