Risk Assessment Course

This half day course is designed for all levels of Employee and Managers. The course content will give guidance from the sections of the Health and Safety Law that is relevant to Risk Assessments.

The course content will show the benefit of having a risk assessment carried out and how the information can reduce the chances of an accident or incident taking place. This a half-day course and normally delivered at the client’s workplace. Contents of the course includes:

Objectives:

• To show the advantages of carrying out Risk Assessments
• Know how to undertake a Risk Assessment
• Who should be involved in the Risk Assessment
• When to undertake a Risk Assessment
• What to Risk Assess

Presentation:

• We discuss the Health and Safety at Work Act, in particular
• Section 2, The Duty on the Employer
• Section 7, The Duty on the Employee
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
• Regulation 14, Duties on Employees
• Regulation 3, The requirement of the Risk Assessment
• Hierarchy of Risk Control
• Near Miss reporting
• Different types of Risk Assessment
• Site Specific RA
• Dynamic RA
• Generic RA
• Different types of hazards to be Risk Assessed
• Schools and classroom Risk Assessments
• Special cases to be Risk Assessed including:
• Young persons
• Expectant and nursing mothers
• Workers with a disability
• Lone workers