{"id":167,"date":"2025-11-26T21:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:38:43","slug":"competent-persons-in-occupational-safety-and-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/?page_id=167","title":{"rendered":"Competent Persons In Occupational Safety And Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course Content<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Labor Laws: Occupational safety &health Act, Employment Act, Labor relations Act, Labor Institutions Act & Work injury benefits Act<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Subsidiary Legislations: Health & Safety committee rules, Noise prevention & control rules, Medical examination rules, Hazardous substance rules, First aid rules, Cellulose solutions rules etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Health & Safety management: Health & safety policy, assigning safety responsibilities, planning, development and implementation of safety systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Safe systems of work: Looking into various safe work procedures that is; JSA, LOTO, Permit to work, risk assessments, medical examinations, HAZCOM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Human Anatomy & psychology: Understand the human skeletal system, work physiology, anthropometry, body mechanics and occupational biomechanics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Chemical safety: Understanding various aspects of chemical hazards and overview of the effect of chemicals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. 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<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Plant and machinery safety: Hazards associated with machinery, types of motions. Plasticity & elasticity of metals, tensile strength, maintenance of plant and preventive measures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Accident causation and Investigation: Dangerous occurrences as defined under OSHA \u2013 2007, Cost of accidents, accident investigation techniques, accident analysis and classification and accident reporting<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Safety accountability: Understanding the basic princ0les of accountability, performance measurement and application of consequences<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Course Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Fosters safety culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Compliance with regulatory requirement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Protecting employees, which translates to employee retention.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Free unit\/branch manager to carry other process responsibilities since there will be an abled competent person handling EHS at the workplace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Reduced downtime and improved productivity due to better understanding and application of safety concepts<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Ensure better accident investigation and application of lessons learned from the accident investigation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Improved emergency response<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Better risk management strategy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Course Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      10 Days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      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), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimateriskinsight.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}