Overview
Looking for training to develop strategic skills in Occupational Health and Safety?
This may be the training you are looking for. See the learning objectives and course content below.
This training falls under training area 862 – Occupational Health and Safety, and CEDROS is certified by DGERT to deliver training in this area. It can therefore count towards the scientific and technical updating of Senior Safety Technicians (TSST) and Safety Technicians (TST).
Learning Objectives
By the end of the training, trainees should be able to:
- Advocate health and safety improvements using moral, financial and legal arguments;
- Advise on the main workplace health and safety obligations and help your organisation manage contractors;
- Work within a health and safety management system, identifying the features of an effective policy and the organisational responsibilities and arrangements;
- Positively influence health and safety culture and behaviour to improve performance in your organisation;
- Carry out a general risk assessment in your workplace;
- Identify workplace changes that have significant health and safety impacts and effective ways to minimise them;
- Develop safe systems of work and know when to use permit-to-work systems for special risks;
- Take part in incident investigations;
- Help your employer check the effectiveness of its management system – through monitoring, audits and reviews.
Course Content
1. Why we should manage workplace health and safety
1.1 Moral expectations of good health and safety standards and the financial cost of incidents (insured and uninsured costs)
1.2 Health and safety regulation
1.3 Who does what in organisations
- Roles of directors / managers / supervisors
- How top management can demonstrate commitment
- Health and safety responsibilities of organisations sharing a workplace
- How clients and contractors should work together: duties; effective planning and coordination of contractor work; contractor pre-selection and management.
2. How health and safety management systems work
2.1 What they are and the benefits they bring
- Basics of a health and safety management system: the ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’ model (example: NP ISO 45001:2019)
- The benefits of having a formal / certified health and safety management system.
2.2 Characteristics of good health and safety management systems
- The occupational health and safety policy
- Responsibilities
- Practical arrangements: the importance of setting out the organisation’s arrangements for planning and organising, controlling risks, consulting, communicating, monitoring compliance and assessing effectiveness
- Keeping the system up to date: when the health and safety management system needs to be reviewed, including the passage of time, technological, organisational or legal changes and monitoring results.
3. Managing Risk – understanding people and processes
3.1 Health and safety culture
- Meaning of the term “health and safety culture”
- Relationship between health and safety culture and health and safety performance
- Indicators of an organisation’s health and safety culture
- Peer influence on health and safety culture
3.2 Improving health and safety culture
- Securing top management commitment
- Promoting health and safety standards through leadership, example and appropriate use of disciplinary procedures
- Competent workers
- Good communication within the organisation
- When training is needed
3.3. How human factors influence behaviour positively or negatively
3.4 Risk Assessment
- Meaning of hazard, risk, risk profile and risk assessment
- Risk profile
- Purpose of risk assessment and the “suitable and sufficient” standard to be achieved
- A general approach to risk assessment
- Applying risk assessment to specific types of risk and special cases
3.5 Management of Change
- Types of change faced in the workplace and their possible impact
- Managing the impact of change
- Reviewing change (during and after)
3.6 Safe systems of work for general work activities
- Why workers should be involved in developing safe systems of work
Why procedures should be recorded / written down - The differences between technical, procedural and behavioural controls
- Developing a safe system of work
- Monitoring the system
3.7 Permit-to-work systems
- Meaning of a permit-to-work system
- Why permit-to-work systems are used
- How permit-to-work systems work and are used
- When to use a permit-to-work system, including: hot work, work on systems, machinery maintenance, confined spaces, work at height.
3.8 Emergency procedures
- Why emergency procedures need to be developed
- What to include in an emergency procedure
- Why people need training in emergency procedures
- Why emergency procedures need to be tested
- What to consider when deciding on first-aid needs in the workplace
4. Monitoring and measuring health and safety
4.1. Active and reactive monitoring
- The differences between active and reactive monitoring
- Active monitoring methods (health and safety inspections, sampling and tours) and their usefulness
- Reactive monitoring measures and their usefulness
- Why lessons need to be learnt from positive and adverse events
- The difference between leading and lagging.
4.2 Incident investigation
- The different levels of investigation
- Basic incident investigation steps
- How occupational accidents and diseases are recorded and reported by the organisation
4.3 Health and safety auditing
- Definition of the term “audit”
- Why health and safety management systems should be audited
- Difference between audits and inspections
- Types of audit: product / service, process, system
- Advantages and disadvantages of external and internal audits
- The stages of an audit
4.4 Reviewing health and safety performance
- Why health and safety performance should be reviewed
- What the review should consider
- Reporting on health and safety performance
- Feeding review results into action and development plans as part of continual improvement
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Upcoming Training Dates:
To be announced soon
Investment
€350 (VAT-exempt/final price)*
* Payment in instalments available
Technical and Scientific Coordination
Luís Coelho
- Degree in Ergonomics
Professional experience as:
- Technical and Pedagogical Director at CEDROS
- Auditor (IRCA certified)
- Activity Coordinator – Occupational Safety and Health at a Certification Body
- Occupational Safety and Health Coordinator
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
