Maintain Workplace Safety & Health Policies & Procedures

Course details

Everyone is responsible for a safe work environment. As a team lead, one of your responsibilities is to educate your team and ensure your team maintains workplace safety and health policies.

This course will help you to be more safety-minded and to supervise according to your company’s workplace safety and health policies.

Target Audience:

This course is suitable for inpiduals who are aspiring to be supervisor or who are in supervisory position, with responsibility for the operation and performance of a team. It is also useful for people in small businesses or the self-employed.

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Explain workplace safety & health policies, procedures & programmes
• Cultivate workers on workplace safety & health policies, procedures & programmes
• Execute & supervise workplace safety & health management programmes
• Execute workplace risk management programmes
• Retain workplace risk control measures

Course Outline:

Be Safe Not Sorry!

• Health is wealth: Importance of personal hygiene
• Use & maintain workplace & personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Follow safety signs & procedures
• Report safety & health issues

Be Responsible, Be Safe!

• Responsibilities of workers & supervisory personnel
• Explain relevant workplace safety & health policies & procedures

Safety Education

• Information on the organisation’s safety & health policies, procedures & programmes
• Information on personal protective equipment, safety devices & types of emergencies
• Information about hazards & the outcomes of risk assessment
• Information about emergencies in the workplace

Safety & Health Programmes

• Implement procedures for Workplace Safety & Health (WSH) participation & consultation
• Resolve matters through consultation
• Organisational emergency response & evacuation exercises
• Supervise & maintain order in the event of emergency
• Monitoring change in work practices or procedures
• Communicate in accordance to WSH guidelines

Managing Risk

• Identify & report hazards
• Implement work procedures for risk assessment, control & emergency situations
• Participate in the investigation of emergency situations
• Control measures to prevent recurrence & minimise risk of emergency situations
• Identify WSH training needs & programmes
• Maintain WSH management records

Control Risk

• Monitor compliance to work procedures for risk assessment, control & emergency readiness
• Assess the effectiveness in existing risk control measures
• Report the findings to designated personnel
• Review & document workplace risk control measures resolution

Methodology: A range of small group discussions, presentations, case studies will be used. The delivery of the course will be highly interactive. Participants will be given adequate time to practice and understand.

Teacher & Student Ratio: 1:25 (maximum capacity)