Environment Health & Safety

This course will focus on basic concepts in safety and its application specially in the construction equipment sector. It is suitable for the Health and Safety officers, Mechanics, Technicians, operators or anyone working with any equipment and also graduates looking to start work.  This online course will educate professionals on how to inculcate safety culture in your organization. 

There will be many benefits to the employees individually and to the organization in large. You can understand the importance of safety and methods of making sure that you are safe while working in relation to your industry of employment. Further you can understand how important it is to implement safety programmes in your organization and you will learn basic concepts that can be implemented at your level within the organization. 

Learning Objectives

• Understanding the Importance of Safety Culture to a Business Organization
• Learn Basic Concepts related to Safety
• Understand how to apply them in the real work environment
• Learn Risks associated with safety and how to manage them.

Course Outline

Section 01 – Basics of General Safety

• 01.     Introduction
• 02.     Hazard & Risk
• 03.     What is an Incident?
• 04.     Unsafe Condition and Unsafe Act
• 05.     Near miss and Accident?

Section 02 - Importance of inculcating a Workplace Safety Culture

• 06.     Why organizations need safety in the work floor
• 07.     Why do we need to report incidents?
• 08.     What should be reported?

Section 03 - Introduction to Accident

• 09.     Means of Accidents
• 10.     Causes for Accidents
• 11.     Outcomes of Accidents
• 12.     Cost of an Accident

Section 04 - Importance of Managing Risk

• 13.     Why do we need to manage Risk?
• 14.     Risk Management Process
• 15.     Risk Matrix
• 16.     Hierarchy of Controls
• 17.     Inherent Risk vs Residual Risk

 Section 05 - Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO)

• 21.  Lockout Devices
• 22.  Introduction to Tagout
• 23.  Understanding Safety Signs