Health and Safety Risk Assessment

This course provides students with knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and the skills required to identify hazards, assess risks and identify control and monitoring measures for risks in a given workplace.

Course Content

The course focuses on:

• Understanding the legislative and company structure for managing and assessing risk.
• Understanding individual responsibilities for managing and assessing risk.
• Understanding and using a JSA/JHA and the risk assessment matrix.
• Demonstrating and using the correct forms and procedures for reporting hazards and assessing risk.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the principles of health and safety risk assessment.
• Apply health and safety risk assessment to a job role in accordance with regulatory requirements and industry good practice.

Related training

Competency in US 30265 will be accepted as meeting the hazard management pre- requisite for our Common Permit to Work training.

Course structure

The course is a combination of theoretical and practical sessions. Students are assessed continuously during the course.