Awareness Training

Overview

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STOP stands for Safety Training Observation Program.

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STOP is based on the following safety principles:

• All injuries can be prevented.
• Employee involvement is essential.
• Management is responsible for preventing injuries.
• All operating exposures can be safeguarded.
• Training employees to work safely is essential.
• Working safely is a condition of employment.
• Management audits are a must.
• All deficiencies must be corrected promptly.

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General Objectives

The general objective of this training is for trainees to recognise their role in workplace safety, what they can do to prevent occupational injuries and illnesses, and how they can promote safe conditions and eliminate unsafe working conditions.

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Specific Objectives

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By the end of this training, trainees will be able to:

• Recognise their role in workplace safety and what they can do to prevent occupational injuries and illnesses (recognising that it starts with their own attitude and mindset);
• Recognise who is responsible for encouraging safe conditions and eliminating unsafe conditions;
• Recognise how safety can become part of daily activities.
• Identify the ways in which injuries affect the injured person, their family, their co-workers and the organisation.

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Course Content

• How injuries affect the injured person, their family, their co-workers and the organisation.

• Safety and the Self – Safety starts with us

• The STOP Principles

• Gaining a Safety “vision”

• Safe and unsafe conditions

• Seeing and acting on safe and unsafe conditions

• Safe and unsafe acts

• Safety Observations (how to proceed)

• Using the STOP principles in your work area

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Note: this training can also be delivered in-company, in person, with an added activity to practise preventive safety observations in a real work context. If you are interested in this format, do not hesitate to request a proposal.

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Training Format

The training will be delivered via livestreaming (videoconference).

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Training Methods

Expository, interrogative and active methods will be used during the training.

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Learning Assessment Methods

Learning will be assessed through the trainee’s participation throughout the training and performance in the practical activity.

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Learning Resources

Computer with internet access and access to the Zoom platform.

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Target Audience

Managers, supervisors, team leaders and other workers for whom the training is relevant.

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Total Course Duration

4 h

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Date

See the schedule here

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Investment

€100 per trainee (final price, VAT-exempt)

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.Specific Features of the Training

Upon successful completion, the trainee will receive a training certificate issued through the SIGO platform.

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Trainer

Academic Qualifications/Training:

• Degree in Agro-Industrial Engineering from Instituto Superior de Agronomia – Technical University of Lisbon (1981/86)
• Master’s in Food Science and Technology – Technical University of Lisbon (1991/1996)
• Postgraduate degree in Safety Engineering – Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (2004)
• Senior Safety Technician – certified by ISHST (CAP no. 30151002RC5)
• Psychosocial Risk Assessment Training
• Intervention in psychosocial risks. Leadership and worker participation, 26 October 2012 – Instituto Piaget
• Managing Crucial Conversations and Conflicts Through Effective Leadership, 13–14 November 2012 – Porto Business School
• 5th Iberian Meeting “Psychosocial Risks at Work”, 29 November 2012 – ACT, Fundación MAPFRE
• 5th RSO PT Annual Convention, 18 April 2013 – National Network for Organisational Social Responsibility
• SROI Seminar for Beginners, 25 June 2013 – CECOA
• WORKSHOP – Psychosocial Risks and Labour Rights, 31 January 2014 – ISEG (Lisbon School of Economics and Management)
• Launch of the 2014/15 European Campaign – Managing stress and psychosocial risks at work, 8 May 2014 – ACT
• Mind Safety – Safety Matters, 20 June 2018 – ACT

Professional Experience:

• Worked in industry (1986 – 2013) for a multinational, holding several positions: Production, Technical Organisation, Environment, Occupational Safety and Health, Quality and Food Safety, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and Manufacturing Excellence Manager Europe
• Senior Trainer/Consultant with diverse experience across different sectors, delivering projects in TPM, Environment, Innovation Project Management – NP 4456:2007, NP 4458:2007 and NP 4457:2007, Internal Audits – NP EN ISO 19011, and Social Responsibility – SA 8000, ISO 26000, NP 4469-1, Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH, ADR, Occupational Accident Investigation, Seveso, ATEX, Behavioural Safety, Machinery and Work Equipment Directives, etc.), Quality, and Food Safety (HACCP/CODEX, ISO 22000, ISO TS 22002-4, FSSC, BRC, IFS)
• e-trainer
• Has given talks at several higher education institutions: University of the Algarve, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém
• External supervisor of undergraduate and master’s final projects
• Member of CT 42 SC4 – Occupational Safety and Health
• Member of CTA 038 – Food Safety Management System
• Portuguese Order of Engineers professional licence no. 29662 and Professional Aptitude Certificate no. EDF 7309/98 DL