This Advanced course equip the Health and Safety Representatives from stage 1 , with the knowledge and skill to understand workplace accidents, perform a detailed accident investigation and be able to identify and manage risks to maintain a safe workplace and in accordance with regulatory requirements and industry good practice.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES:

​At the completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Describe the principles of health and safety risk assessment.
• Achieve an understanding of hazards, significant hazards and serious harm in relation to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
• Apply health and safety risk assessment to a job role in accordance with regulatory requirements and industry good practice.
• Describe each principle of the risk assessment process in terms of workplace health and safety.
• Learn about the purpose of a hazard register and its advantages in managing risks as well as understand legislative requirements on incidents and accidents.
• Learn how to identify hazards and implement control measures
• Explain why workplace accidents need to be reported and investigated.
• Learn how to explain the difference between a hazard and a risk.
• Explain and understand the concepts of multiple causation and root-cause analysis. Barriers to reporting near miss incidents and how to overcome them.
• Detail an incident investigation process using a hypothetical incident.
• Develop an awareness of human error principles.
• Learn how to conduct effective witness interviews (Participate in a Team Exercise).
• Produce an incident investigation report based on a documented incident.
• Understand the various components of the investigation process including, post incident, data collection, analysis and prevention.
• Corrective action implementation is monitored and reported in accordance with organisational requirements.

Numeracy and Literacy: All students must have the ability to write, speak and understand basic English to complete the assessments. less