Risk Managment

What you’ll learn:
Reducing machinery-related injuries is a high priority for businesses and regulators. Work Safe NZ’s 'Safe Use of Machinery Harm Reduction Programme’  has been established to help actively manage the hazards associated with machinery operation and maintenance.

This course uses this framework to guide you in how to understand and effectively manage the risks when purchasing, installing, operating, maintaining, cleaning, and repairing machinery.

After, you’ll be able to

• Understand the need to manage machinery risks.

• Evaluate the life cycle of machinery risks that arise in the installation, use, inspection, cleaning, maintenance, repair, modifications and decommissioning of plant and machinery.
  Convey the importance of locking out plant and equipment.
  Understand contractor management risks and the need to consult, co-ordinate and co-operate with other organisations with operational machinery risks.
• How unintentional human interaction with machinery risks can lead to harm.
• Involve your workers, representatives, and other stake holders in machinery risk assessments.
• Identify, analyse, and explain the various types of machinery risks; the methods available to control risks; the common types of machinery controls available; health related risks around noise, hazardous substances, ergonomics, clean air etc; common safe systems of work with machinery.