• Basic Definitions
• Employers Basic Responsibility
• Sources of Information on Health and Safety
• Moral, Legal and Financial reasons for Health and Safety
• ILO-OSH 2001 Guidelines
• OHSAS 18001:2007

Setting Policy for Health & Safety

• Organization of Health and Safety
• Arrangements of Health and Safety

Organizing for Health & Safety

• Employer’s Responsibilities
• Typical Managers – Organization Responsibilities
• Role & Functions Health and Safety parishioners and other advisors
• Supply Chain & General duties of suppliers, manufacturers and designers

Promoting for a Positive Health & Safety Culture

• Safety Culture & Safety Performance
• Human Factors and their influence on safety performance
• The Development of a positive health and Safety culture

Risk Assessment

• Aims and Objectives of the risk assessment
• Identifying the Hazards
• Principles and practices of Risk Assessment

Principles of Controls

• Principles of Prevention
• General control Measures
• Controlling Health Risks
• Safe System of Works
• Emergency Planning Procedures
• First Aid at Work

Monitoring, Review and Audit

• The Traditional Approach to measuring health and safety performance
• Proactive or active monitoring – How to measure performance

Occupational Incident and Accident Investigation Recording and Reporting

• Process and purpose of investigating accidents, ill-health and other occurrences
• Basic Investigating procedures
• Identifying the causes

Indentifying the remedial actions

• Hazards to pedestrians
• Control Strategies for pedestrian hazards
• Management of Vehicle movement
• Managing occupational road Safety

Manual and Mechanical Handling Hazards and Control

• Manual Handling Hazards and injuries
• Manual Handling Risk Assessments
• Safety in the use of lifting and moving equipment
• Types of Mechanical Handling and lifting equipment

Electrical Hazards and Control

• Principles of Electricity & Some definitions
• Hazards of Electricity
• Control Measures for Electrical Hazards
• Portable Electrical Appliances Testing

Fire Hazards and Control

• Basic Principles of Fire
• Fire Risk Assessment
• Principles of Fire Protection in Buildings
• Provision of Firefighting equipment
• Fire Emergency Plan

Chemical and Biological Health Hazards and Control

• Health Hazards of specific hazards and their consequences
• Risks associated with Hazardous substances
• Respiratory Protective Equipment
• Health Surveillance and Personal Hygiene
• Waste Disposals and Control of Pollution

Physical and Psychological Hazards and Control

• Welfare and work environment issues
• Noise
• Heat and radiation hazards
• The Cause and prevention of workplace stress
• Cause and prevention of workplace violence

Construction Activates Hazards and Control

• The Scope of construction
• Construction Hazards and Controls
• The Management of construction activates

Working above ground level or where there is a risk of falling