Health, Safety, Security and Environment
Designing and Implementing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) for the Workplace
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Designing and Implementing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) for the Workplace Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
Be able to design and implement a program to identify and manage workplace hazards for occupational health and safety.
Who Should Attend?
Individuals involved with or responsible for occupational health and safety in an organization.
Course Outlines:
Establishing an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)
- Terms
- Purpose
- Benefits
- OHSAS 14001
- Continuous improvement
- Issues for managers
Key aspects of the management system
- Planning
- Organizing
- Implementing
Policies, procedures and work instructions - Documentation and records
- Communications
- Leadership
Management system elements
- Employee involvement
- Training, orientation, employee awareness and competence
- Collection and management of information
- Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
- Procedures
- Safe work practices
- Permits to work
- Pre-job safety checks
- Maintaining tools and equipment
- Change management
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Accidents, incidents, non-conformances and corrective and preventive actions
- Performance measurement and monitoring
- Reviews and audits
Understanding workplace hazards
- Unsafe conditions
- Unsafe behavior
- Types of injuries and illnesses
- Typical sources of injuries and illnesses
Human factors in the workplace
- Personnel selection
- Training
- Use of temporary personnel and contractors
- Workplace design and engineering
- Ergonomics
- Design of procedures
- Usability of equipment
- Effective communications
- Design of jobs and tasks
- Workload and staffing
- Workplace design and layout
- Work environment
- Organizational issues
Overview of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and Direct Hazard Analysis (DHA)
- Purpose
- Benefits
- Terms used
- Approaches
- Uses
- Levels of detail
- Stages and steps
- Cautions and limitations
- Issues for managers
Defining jobs and tasks
- Identifying jobs
- Job lists
- Collecting information
- Observing job performance
- Task analysis
Preparing for JSA/DHA & Performing JSA/DHA
- Procedures
- Flowcharts
- Risk ranking
- Facilitating studies
- Advantages and disadvantages
Recording and documenting JSA/DHA studies
- Deciding on corrective actions
- Priorities
- Tracking action items
Behavioral safety
- Changing workplace cultures
- Dealing with peer pressure
- Avoiding the concepts of blame and punishment