Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment

Introduction:

Accidents and ill health can ruin lives, and can also affect business financially if output is lost, machinery is damaged, insurance costs increase or if you have to go to court. An effective Risk Assessment process is the backbone of any effective Health and Safety management system of the organization. It needs to be conducted before employees complete work on current, new or unknown parts, processes or materials.

Training Objectives:

This course has been designed in order to provide the understanding between hazard and risk. Provision of various methodologies which can be applied to perform risk assessment.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who is involved in carrying out risk assessment of work activities such as HSE Manager, HSE Engineers, HSE Officers, Operations team and their supervisors.

Course Outline

Each of the following topics will be covered during the course

• Introduction to health, safety, illnesses and welfare (20 min)
• Introduction to Hazards and Risk (30 min)
• Cost of Accidents (30 min)
• Common types of accidents at workplace (40 min)
• Legal requirements for Hazards and risk assessments (60 min)
• Steps of Risk assessment (60 min)
• Risk control Hierarchy (60 min)
• Scenario based Risk assessment workshop (30 min)
• Risk assessment report writing (30 min)

Course Duration

Course is designed for 6 hours with 20 MCQs based exam, with 70% passing marks.