Advanced Health and Safety Representative

Course Content

Training Objectives:

• To equip staff with the necessary legal knowledge and skills to successfully perform their function in the workplace.

• To enable staff to conduct investigations within the workplace

• To enable staff to be pro-active in the prevention of further incidents within the workplace

• Introduction

• Legislation Governing Occupational Health and Safety

  • Section 8 of the Act

  • Section 13 of the Act

  • Section 14 of the Act

  • Section 17 of the Act

  • Section 18 of the Act

  • Section 19 of the Act

  • Section 20 of the Act

• General Administration Regulations

• ABC of Health & Safety

• Occupational Safety vs. Occupational health

• Occupational Hygiene

• Measuring Tools

• Level of Exposure

• Incident Prevention

• Understanding incidents

• Incident Ratio

• Hazard Investigation

• Symbolic Signs

• Conducting a Committee Meeting

• Health & Safety Committee

• Functions of the Chairpersons

• Accident / Incident Investigation

• Introduction

• Legal Knowledge

• Occupational Safety vs Occupational Health

• Prevention of incidents

• Hazard Identification

• Root Cause Analysis

• Incident Investigation

NQF Level              

• Further Education and Training (FET) Level 3

Certification:         

• A Certificate of training will be issued to all successful candidates.