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• Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Control - Health and Safety 3
  

  Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Control - Health and Safety 3

  This course covers the aim and objectives of risk assessment and lists examples of common hazards and explains what constitutes an adequate risk assessment. It also outlines the stages of risk assessment, the general principles for controlling health and safety risks and how to identify common safety signs.
  

  
  

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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 covers the aim and objectives of risk assessment and lists examples of common hazards and explains what constitutes an adequate risk assessment. It also outlines the stages of risk assessment, the general principles for controlling health and safety risks and how to identify common safety signs. 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 aim and objectives of risk assessment: The meaning of: hazard, risk, risk assessment Examples of common workplace hazards (e.g. slips, trips and falls; falling objects; collision with objects; trapping/crushing under or between objects; manual handling; contact with machinery/vehicles; electricity; hazardous substances; fire and explosion; psycho-social; noise and vibration) The aim and objectives of risk assessment: likelihood and outcomes Adequate risk assessment Who should be responsible for the risk assessment Who should undertake the risk assessment Who should be involved in the risk assessment process Meets legal requirements if relevant Identifies all significant hazards Identifies all people affected Records all significant findings The need to undertake ‘general’ and ‘specific’ risk assessments e.g. manual handling The stages of risk assessment based on the United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive 5 steps to risk assessment: Carrying out risk assessment How to identify hazards How to identify persons at risk: employees, contractors, visitors, public, vulnerable persons e.g. due to age, condition or disability How to evaluate risk and adequacy of current controls: factors affecting the likelihood of harm and probable severity/consequence, applying controls to specified hazards, the risk remaining once controls have been applied; prioritisation of action based on risk How to record the significant findings: format, information to be recorded How to carry out a review: reasons for review Controlling health and safety risk: Hierarchy of control measures Elimination/substitution e.g. replacing the hazardous with less/non hazardous Replace or reduce risk (time limiting exposure e.g. job rotation, limited time) Isolation/segregation e.g. barriers, shields Engineering control e.g. ventilation Safe systems of work, permits to work and work instructions Information, instruction, training and supervision Personal protective equipment The role of monitoring and health surveillance The use of safety signs: The purpose of safety signs A range of common safety signs: prohibition, warning, mandatory and safe condition signs in general workplace use
  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 aim and objectives of risk assessment and give examples of common hazards Explain what constitutes an adequate risk assessment Outline the stages of risk assessment Outline the general principles for controlling health and safety risks Identify common safety signs 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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