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• Responsibility for Health and Safety - Health and Safety 2
  

  Responsibility for Health and Safety - Health and Safety 2

  This course outlines the health and safety role and responsibilities of relevant parties and the key features of a system to effectively manage health and safety. It also explains how accidents are caused and the role and function of accident recording and investigation, and identifies the methods of improving health and safety performance.

  
  

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  This Course is Aimed at
  Anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job. The typical people who would benefit from this course include: Team Leaders and Supervisors, HR Professionals, Facilities Managers, those working with young people in a training environment.
  Overview
  This course is a stand-alone elearning module and forms part of a 10 module set that make up the Health and Safety at Work Suite. It outlines the health and safety role and responsibilities of relevant parties and the key features of a system to effectively manage health and safety. It also explains how accidents are caused and the role and function of accident recording and investigation, and identifies the methods of improving health and safety performance. The modules are: Health and Safety 1 - Foundations of Health and Safety Health and Safety 2 - Responsibility for Health and Safety Health and Safety 3 - Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Control Health and Safety 4 - Hazards and Controls Associated with the Work Equipment Health and Safety 5 - Transport Safety Health and Safety 6 - Hazards and Controls Associated with Working with Electricity Health and Safety 7 - Fire Safety Health and Safety 8 - Hazards and Controls Associated with Manual Handling and Repetitive Movement  Health and Safety 9 - Hazards and Controls Associated with Hazardous Substances    Health and Safety 10 - Hazards and Controls Associated with the Working Environment
  Programme Content and Key Areas
  The health and safety role and responsibilities: The roles and responsibilities for the health and safety of themselves and others of: The employer Those affected by work activities (e.g., visitors, employment agency workers, contractors, the public) Directors, managers and supervisors Workers The self-employed Consultation with employees Benefits of consultation Worker representatives Safety committees Systems for managing health and safety The role of a health and safety policy The need for effective hazard identification, risk assessment and control the need to communicate effectively with workers and others taking into account any issues of literacy and language The importance of monitoring and checking health and safety performance through techniques such as accident data, inspections, surveys and audits How incidents are caused: How to identify immediate causes and underlying causes The role and function of accident recording and reporting The role and function of accident investigation Improving health and safety performance: Examples of poor health and safety performance: high accident rates, absenteeism, unsafe behaviour, complaints, poor housekeeping Factors which negatively affect health and safety performance: e.g. lack of resources, management commitment, unsafe behaviour, lack of training, poor risk assessment and control, poor communication Improving safety performance through management commitment, leadership by example, competence, training, learning from past incidents, communication, consultation
  Learning Outcomes
  On completion of this module, participants should be able to demonstrate understanding of the content through the application of knowledge to familiar and unfamiliar situations. In particular they should be able to: Outline the health and safety role and responsibilities of relevant parties Outline the key features of a system to effectively manage health and safety Outline how accidents are caused and the role and function of accident recording and investigation Identify the methods of improving health and safety performance Technical Requirements Category Specification KreateIT version 4.9 Minimum screen resolution 1024x768 Supported operating systems Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7,OSx10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) Supported Windows Browsers on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 IE 7, 8, 9 Chrome 17.0 Firefox 11 Safari 5.1.2 Supported Browsers on Mac OS x 10.6.8. (Snow Leopard) only Firefox 11 Safari 5.1.2 Adobe Flash Version 8 and upwards Other software requirements Adobe Acrobat Reader Browser set up requirements Browsers need to be set up to support JavaScriptand have plug-ins enabled
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