Contractor Safety Passport Training (South Africa)

Course details

COURSE AIM

• To provide basic information and areas of responsibility for health, safety and the environment.
• To understand the implications of hazard recognition/risk assessment and effects on individuals and the employer.
• To demonstrate how individual behaviour can help reduce accidents.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completion of the course delegates will have the knowledge to:

• Demonstrate their understanding of the subjects by successfully completing each module assessment paper
• Appreciate how they personally can influence good standards within health, safety & and environment
• Understand the value of risk assessment and have the knowledge to recognise when change to a generic assessment is required
• Understand the common hazards associated with work.

MODULE 1 – ORGANISING FOR SAFETY
Will give delegates an understanding of:- the legal responsibilities of employers and employees, the role of enforcing authorities, what makes a vulnerable worker, hazard identification and control and an understanding of The Construction Regulations.

MODULE 2 – THE WORKPLACE
This module examines what makes a safe place of work, safe behaviour, safe access and exits, safety signs, temperature, lighting, housekeeping and welfare facilities, slips and trips, reporting failures and defects, safe work at height, excavations and confined spaces.

MODULE 3 – TOOLS, PLANT AND MACHINERY
The session will give delegates an understanding of the risks presented by both powered and non powered work equipment and the risks associated with the various forms of energy created. In addition the risks faced with the use of workplace transport.

MODULE 4 – HEALTH
The session highlights the risks and controls for substances hazardous to health together with other ill health risks from workplace activities, including musculoskeletal problems, effects of noise and stress. In addition candidates will be made aware of the varied precautions which can be taken.

MODULE 5 – PROCEDURES
Candidates will be shown the need and benefits of procedures, including: the importance of local emergency procedures and first aid arrangements.

MODULE 6 – THE ENVIRONMENT
The module covers current and future environmental requirements, safe storage and marking, waste control hierarchies and emergency planning in the event of problems.

The Safety Pass Alliance work with employers, employer associations, trade unions, NTO and other relevant bodies to design and develop training programmes tailored to suit each sector. Updated on 19 April, 2017