Course Description
Occupational health and safety management is the discipline that turns intention into control: identifying what can harm people, deciding what is reasonable to do about it, and building the system that makes those decisions stick.
This comprehensive two-week training course develops full competence in occupational health and safety management. Participants learn the legal and moral basis of health and safety, management systems and their elements, risk assessment methodology, the control of the major workplace hazard groups — physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial — incident investigation, and the leadership, culture and performance measurement through which safety is actually delivered.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the legal, moral and financial basis of health and safety
- Apply health and safety management system principles
- Conduct risk assessment and select proportionate controls
- Control physical, chemical and biological hazards
- Address ergonomic and psychosocial hazards
- Investigate incidents and identify root causes
- Measure health and safety performance
- Build health and safety culture and leadership
How the course is delivered
This training course combines health and safety management theory with extensive practical work: risk assessments, workplace inspections, incident analysis and control selection using realistic workplace scenarios.
Delivered over two weeks, the programme builds from foundations to full management competence, and includes a practical risk assessment exercise through which participants demonstrate applied capability.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Health and safety practitioners and advisers
- Managers and supervisors with safety responsibilities
- Those entering the health and safety profession
- Operations and HR professionals
- Anyone accountable for workplace health and safety
Daily programme
- Why health and safety matters: moral, legal, financial
- Key concepts and terminology
- International frameworks and standards
- Roles and responsibilities
- Health and safety management systems
- Policy and planning
- Organising for health and safety
- Documentation and arrangements
- Hazard identification
- Risk assessment methodology
- Hierarchy of control
- Recording and reviewing
- Workplace and work equipment hazards
- Machinery safety
- Electrical safety
- Work at height and confined spaces
- Fire safety and prevention
- Fire risk assessment
- Emergency evacuation
- Emergency preparedness
- Hazardous substances
- Exposure routes and health effects
- Control of substances
- Biological agents
- Noise and vibration
- Radiation and thermal environment
- Manual handling and ergonomics
- Display screen equipment
- Occupational health
- Psychosocial hazards and stress
- Health surveillance
- Wellbeing at work
- Incident investigation
- Root cause analysis
- Reporting and recording
- Performance measurement and auditing
- Safety culture and behaviour
- Leadership and worker engagement
- Continual improvement
- Practical risk assessment exercise and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
