By the end of this programme, participants will:
- Understand Hazard Identification: Learn techniques to identify potential hazards in various workplace environments and processes.
- Conduct Risk Assessments: Develop skills to evaluate risks associated with identified hazards and prioritize them effectively.
- Implement Risk Control Measures: Gain knowledge of control strategies to eliminate or mitigate risks to acceptable levels.
- Enhance Safety Awareness: Foster a proactive safety culture by understanding the importance of hazard and risk management.
- Comply with Regulations: Understand legal and regulatory requirements related to workplace safety and risk management.
- Improve Decision-Making: Apply tools and methodologies to make informed decisions in managing and controlling workplace hazards.
DAY 1
 Introduction to Risk Management
Traditional Safety Management Approaches
- Limitations: Driven by legislation, technical focus, lack of line management ownership, and pressure from other business priorities.
General Management Principles
- Influence of strategies, written procedures, and culture on effectiveness.
Integrated Risk Management Approach
- Application of management principles to risk and safety management.
- Case study film: Examining hardware design, operational, procedural, and cultural failures.
Safety Management Systems
- Holistic framework encompassing risk evaluation, procedures, and cultural influences.
Risk Assessment and Standards
- Standards for hardware, procedures, and competencies.
- Prioritization techniques for risk evaluation.
Hazard Identification
- Process and Plant Hazards: Pressure, reactivity, exothermic reactions, fire, toxic risks, and environmental concerns.
- Machinery, Equipment, Chemical, and Task-Related Hazards.
- Group Exercise: Hazard identification for a case study.
DAY 2
Advanced Risk Assessment and Safety Standards
Risk Assessment Framework
- Overview of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) methods: HAZOP, FTA, etc.
- Special assessments: Fire, chemicals, manual handling, etc.
Safety Standards
- Framework and standards for specific hazards:
- Plant and machinery, electrical systems, handling and lifting operations, pressurized systems, manual handling.
- Workplace standards: Storage, housekeeping, work at heights, transportation.
- Flammable substances, fire and emergency systems, hazardous substances, noise, vibration, and PPE.
DAY 3
 Implementation and Delegation
Group Exercise
- Applying risk assessment techniques and identifying standards for the case study.
Personal Exercise
- Prioritizing risk issues for departmental planning.
Organisation and Delegation
- Defining roles and responsibilities within the management team.
Coordination and Liaison
- Managing relationships with external stakeholders, e.g., safety advisors and enforcement bodies.
- Film and Group Exercise: Exploring roles, responsibilities, and relationship management.
Group and Personal Exercises
- Developing organizational and coordination systems for case studies and departmental plans.
DAY 4
Communication and Competence
Communication Systems
- Methods for effective communication: Goals, standards, campaigns, and responsibilities.
- Adapting communication to behavioral styles.
- Group Exercise: Designing a communication system for the case study.
- Personal Exercise: Developing a communication system for departmental plans.
Competence Development
- Evaluating knowledge, skills, and attitudes for competence.
- Group Exercise: Determining competence criteria for various roles.
- Group and Personal Exercises: Developing competence schemes for case studies and development plans.
DAY 5
Monitoring, Resourcing, and Programme Closure
Monitoring
- Differences between active and reactive monitoring.
- Techniques for data collection and investigation.
- Group Exercise: Developing a monitoring scheme for the case study.
- Personal Exercise: Creating a monitoring scheme for departmental plans.
Resourcing
- Identifying financial and resource challenges, including contingency planning.
- Group and Personal Exercises: Addressing resourcing issues for case studies and departmental plans.
Programme Closure
- Summarizing key objectives.
- Q&A session.
- Personal action plan development.
- Formal close of the programme.
