Course details
This course has been designed to help managers understand their responsibilities and what they need to do to ensure compliance with current workplace legislation - including the fire safety and CDM regulations.
The course will cover the legal background - including an appreciation of how safety legislation has evolved and why; the logic behind recent developments and the implications for staff and employers; key areas of current legislation; roles and responsibilities in health and safety management, including monitoring contractors and suppliers effectively; implementing sound health and safety policies and procedures; getting staff on board, and implementing effective systems. Also, recognising potential risks and hazards and developing strategies to minimise their impact in the workplace.
Objectives
This course will give participants an understanding of:
- The broader context of the key areas of health and safety regulation which apply to your organisation
- Existing health and safety practice and guide them in how to shape and implement an effective health and safety policy
- What they should do and the procedures to support it
- Potential areas of risk in the workplace - and how to take action to minimise the threat to staff safety
- How sound health and safety processes can contribute to business performance
Course outline
Understanding the workplace legislation
- Overview of health and safety and workplace legislation
- Compliance, the role of the facilities manager, and who is accountable?
- Breakout session to discuss where we are now and to highlight issues of concern
- Applying required policies and procedures
- Developing and implementation/review of the safety policy
- Communicating with users, clients and contractors
- Health and safety manual
- 'Selling' health and safety
Key legislation - a practical working guide
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
- Electricity at Work Regulations
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations
- Asbestos Regulations
- Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
- Work Equipment Regulations
- Portable Appliance Testing (PAT)
Controlling contractors
- Understanding the Regulations
- Assessing contractors
- Understanding and setting accountability
- Why a method statement?
- How to apply a permit to work system
- Safe systems of work
Risk assessment
- Understanding your hazards
- Identifying specialist areas
- How to undertake these assessments
- Implementation of sound systems and processes
Keeping the work environment safe
- Sick building syndrome and legionella
- Waste management
- Pest control
- Provisions for first aid
- Accident reporting and investigation
Fire safety
- Understanding the Regulations
- Fire certificates
- The fire risk assessment
- Testing fire-fighting equipment?
- Emergency procedures
Ergonomics programme
- Ergonomics - important or irrelevant?
- Are you complying with HSE regulations?
- Furniture and equipment
- Display screen equipment assessments
- Homeworking - your concern or not?
Inspecting and auditing
- Role of Health and Safety Executive Inspectors - 'be prepared'
- FM role
- Staff/trade union involvement
- Independent audits
- Records and reports
- Communicating the results
Job roles this course is suitable for:
Facilities Manager , Facilities Management Engineer , Assistant Facilities ManagerAbout BMC Training
BMC Training provides training courses and programms in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. Training is essential to the achievements of a business. Perhaps its most positive benefit is better employees. A company develop the potential of an employee, and part of the way a company encourages improvement is through training. Often, good training is just as important as a good benefits package for an employee.
For employers, training allows them to locate a wider range of people with the kind of outlook that matches the company mission statement. The right kind of perspective is a hard thing to cultivate, whereas workplace specific proficiencies are easier to nature. The other advantage employers should remember about training is it offers them an improved retention rate. Employees are more loyal to companies that value their growth and want to cultivate it, and thusly provide a better performance and decrease the rollover rate at any company, no matter how small or large. If an employee thinks a company values him or her, that sentiment will go into whatever the employee is designing, selling, manufacturing, etc.
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