Course Overview

As a Employer you will be aware that Health & Safety impinges on all facets of management. With legislation changing all the time you will know that all subjects are current and relevant to any modern manager.

Fireskill is operated by serving Senior Fire Officers who are all NEBOSH qualified in Health and Safety.

Introduction

The Safety Course aims to ensure that Health and Safety is appreciated by people at any level of management. The course will enable executives to review policy and strategies, and, where necessary, introduce changes to make their organisation operate more safely.

Who should attend?

The target audience is people in an organisation who have to manage risk and resources. The course aims to provide these people with the competencies they require.

Aim

To ensure that safety requirements are appreciated by people employed as managers and to enable them to review their own departmental systems for safety, introducing new controls or implementing changes as appropriate to make the department work more safely.

Objectives

  • To define hazards and risks and describe the legal requirements for risk assessment

  • Demonstrate a practical understanding of risk technique and the data required for records

  • Identify workplace precaution hierarchies and the criteria for types of workplace precautions and controls

  • Prepare and use active monitoring checklists and implement schedules for active monitoring, recording results and analysing records

  • Explain the purposes and techniques of a Health and Safety audit

  • Outline the provisions of the Health and Safety at work Act and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.