Location

Technical and Vocational Institute

Objectives

• Aims of the training courseThis training package is designed to help those running and working in enterprises to improve OSH conditions in the workplace. It does this by:• Demonstrating how risk assessment can help employers in enterprises, in cooperation with their workers, make their enterprises safer and healthier places to work, in a cost-effective manner.• Demonstrating how risk assessment as part of enterprise risk management can be used to prevent and reduce injuries and ill health at work.• Providing an overview of how to carry out a risk assessment in the workplace.• Demonstrating how to decide on and implement safety and health improvements using the hierarchy of risk control measures.• Showing how to find good practice to help decide on and implement the safety and health risk control measures determined in the risk assessment.

Outcomes

By the end of the training, the trainee should be able to:• Identify hazards in the workplace• Identify who is at risk, and how?• Identify and decide on risk control measures• Evaluate the degree of risk, and prioritize risks for action

Course Contents

Basic concepts and terminology on risk assessment.Carrying out the risk assessment: • Identify the hazards.• Identify who might be harmed and how.• Evaluate the risk – identify and decide on the safety and health risk control measures. • Record who is responsible for implementing which risk control measures, and the timeframe.• Record the findings, monitor and review risk assessment, and update when necessary.