Competency-based safety training focuses on the specific skills learners need to perform their jobs safely and effectively, such as choosing and wearing proper PPE, performing lockout/tagout consistently and correctly, recognizing all hazards present at the worksite, carrying out workstation/office computer use assessment, performing risk assessment, job safety analysis, in-depth accident investigation (using various analysis tools), etc. To ensure competency is met, our assessment methodology includes group works, case studies, leverage of industrial best practices, individual input through open-ended questions based on practical application of safety at the workplace, and industrial visits, among others
Course Content
- Labor Laws: Occupational safety &health Act, Employment Act, Labor relations Act, Labor Institutions Act & Work injury benefits Act
- Subsidiary Legislations: Health & Safety committee rules, Noise prevention & control rules, Medical examination rules, Hazardous substance rules, First aid rules, Cellulose solutions rules etc.
- Health & Safety management: Health & safety policy, assigning safety responsibilities, planning, development and implementation of safety systems.
- Safe systems of work: Looking into various safe work procedures that is; JSA, LOTO, Permit to work, risk assessments, medical examinations, HAZCOM.
- Human Anatomy & psychology: Understand the human skeletal system, work physiology, anthropometry, body mechanics and occupational biomechanics.
- Chemical safety: Understanding various aspects of chemical hazards and overview of the effect of chemicals.
- Construction safety: An overview of the building operation and works of engineering rules. Excavation safety, confined space entry, scaffolding safety, ladder safety and fall protection
- Plant and machinery safety: Hazards associated with machinery, types of motions. Plasticity & elasticity of metals, tensile strength, maintenance of plant and preventive measures.
- Accident causation and Investigation: Dangerous occurrences as defined under OSHA – 2007, Cost of accidents, accident investigation techniques, accident analysis and classification and accident reporting
- Safety accountability: Understanding the basic princ0les of accountability, performance measurement and application of consequences
Course Objectives
- Fosters safety culture
- Compliance with regulatory requirement
- Protecting employees, which translates to employee retention.
- Free unit/branch manager to carry other process responsibilities since there will be an abled competent person handling EHS at the workplace.
- Reduced downtime and improved productivity due to better understanding and application of safety concepts
- Ensure better accident investigation and application of lessons learned from the accident investigation
- Improved emergency response
- Better risk management strategy
Course Duration
10 Days