Every workplace injury carries a cost that goes well beyond the incident itself — lost productivity, damaged morale, and, in the worst cases, a crisis that spreads faster than the organisation can contain it. Preventing that spiral starts with a genuinely safe and healthy working environment, not with the paperwork that follows an accident.

This course looks at occupational health and safety as a set of practices for protecting an organisation's most important asset — its people — from accidents and injuries on the job, through the physical and psychological conditions an employer creates. It also covers how security and safety crisis departments issue instructions, collect injury data, and run the periodic analysis that keeps a workplace safe.

Who Should Attend?

• Workers in occupational safety quality management.
• Quality managers.
• Owners of industrial activities.
• Heads of crisis and risk teams.
• Members of the crisis management team.
• Those responsible for security and safety in industrial facilities.

Course Objectives

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

• Explain the role of the occupational safety, security and crisis management department within an institution.
• Get the best use out of machinery and equipment and keep it running reliably.
• Identify the causes of workplace injuries and apply the specialised skills that prevent them.
• Connect vocational education to a stronger concept of security and health crisis management.
• Design training programmes that prepare a professional instructor to handle problems and crises as they arise.

• The Foundations of Occupational Safety and Health

  • The concept of occupational safety and health
  • Dimensions of health culture within an organisation

• Managing the Function

  • Health and safety management functions
  • How health and environmental crisis management has evolved over time

• Education, Regulation and Practice

  • The importance of professional education in crisis management, and its general objectives
  • Legislation and health regulations governing the workplace