Health and Safety Officer Course

This crucial and comprehensive course will equip the participants to:

• Understand the qualities, attributes, roles & responsibilities, knowledge and skills of HSO
• Systematically comprehend various workplace hazards and ways to control them
• Participate in case-studies and brainstorm for identifying various hazards and controlling them
• Understand avenues for higher educational and professional qualification available for HSO’s
• Heed professional affiliations available for HSO’s
• Prepare themselves to take up the profession of Health & Safety management
• Ultimately, project HSO as a harbinger and agent of happy family life and society because workers are safe, thanks to his/her efforts

CONTENT

Who is a Health and Safety Officer?

• Concepts
• Responsibilities
• Foundations in Health & Safety
• Regulatory and statutory requirements
• Safety-Related Disciplinary Action
• Each employee is a Health & Safety officer?
• Health, Safety & Environment Committee

Qualities Of Health and Safety Officer

• Communication
• Leadership
• Dynamism
• Resourceful
• Sense of Planning
• Trainer/Educator
• A H&S representative of workers in front of management

Knowledge And Skill-Sets Of Health And Safety Officer-1

• Occupational injury and illness
• Hazards and Risks
• Health & Safety Policy
• Organising /Resource Planning for health & safety
• Promoting a positive health & safety culture

Knowledge And Skill-Sets Of Health And Safety Officer-2

• Risk Assessment
• Principles of hazard control
• Monitoring, review and audit
• Occupational incident, recording and reporting
• Accident investigation and reporting
• Feedback from workers to management on H&S improvement

Knowledge And Skill-Sets Of Health And Safety Officer-3

• Movement of people, equipment & vehicles – hazards and control
• Manual and mechanical handling – hazards and control resource planning
• Working equipment hazards and control
• Electrical hazards and control

Knowledge And Skill-Sets Of Health And Safety Officer-4

• Fire hazards and control
• Chemical and biological health hazards and control
• Physical and psychological health hazards and control
• Construction activities – hazards and control

Knowledge And Skill-Sets of Health and Safety Officer-5

• Personal Protective Equipment
• Permit to Work System
• H&S Inspections and Audits
• Corrective, Preventive and Improvement Actions

Responsibilities Of Health and Safety Officer

• Developing Health & Safety Policy for the company
• What you can count on from leadership?
• Statutory, regulatory and legal interfaces
• Routine guidance on hazard identification and control

Case Studies – Brainstorm Identifying Hazards And Suggesting Controls

• Case study from steady state Oil & Gas based process/chemical industries
• Case study from construction industry
• Case study from marine industry
• Case study from other industries as per needs of majority of participants

Qualifications Of Health And Safety Officer

• NEBOSH International General Certificate & Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety
• IOSH certifications
• ASSP – Certified Safety Professional
• University graduation and post-graduation in occupational health and safety
• Others

Professional Affiliations & Training Beneficial For HSO

• IOSH
• ASSP – CSP
• OSHA
• EUOSH
• Others

FOR WHOM

• Trainees/intern/fresh employees who want to take up the H&S profession as their career
• All workers, managers and top leaders who want to promote health & safety in their individual departments
• All employees who have been on rotation from their department to Health & safety department

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.