A single overlooked hazard on a shop floor can turn into an accident, a legal liability, or both, which is exactly why organisations no longer treat risk assessment as an afterthought. Managing risk means identifying what could go wrong, measuring how serious it is, and building a strategy to transfer, reduce, or absorb the impact before it happens.

This course applies that thinking specifically to occupational health and safety, giving participants the guidelines and standards used to assess workplace risks, alongside practical sections covering the different categories of hazard organisations typically face.

Who Should Attend?

• Occupational health and safety officers and coordinators.
• Operations and facility managers responsible for workplace conditions.
• HR and compliance staff involved in setting safety policy.
• Anyone responsible for identifying, assessing or reporting workplace hazards.

Knowledge and Benefits

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Build and improve an occupational health and safety management system.
• Identify, assess and control workplace risks using recognised methods.
• Read the work environment for hazardous tasks and conditions before they cause harm.
• Link risk assessment findings to an organisation's policies and procedures.
• Know when and how to take precautions, and how to document and certify the assessment.

Module 1: Building the Safety Management System

• Establishing and developing the quality of an occupational health and safety management system
• Setting up joint arrangements for managing health and safety across teams

Module 2: Spotting and Assessing Risk

• Reading sources of information and data about the work environment to flag hazardous tasks and conditions
• Analysing the work environment specifically for risk assessment
• Methods used to assess risk, and the categories risks typically fall into

Module 3: Acting on What You Find

• Precautions to take once a risk is identified
• Connecting risk assessment to the organisation's own policies and procedures
• Reasons for assessing risk and taking the necessary precautions in the first place

Module 4: Documentation, Certification and Field Practice

• Methods for certifying a risk assessment and the precautions taken
• Handling risks that arise from misconduct or corruption
• Knowing the proper timing for taking precautions
• Field work: applying risk assessment on the ground