Environmental Health Management
Course Code: SE17
►Course Objective
- Identify the sources of harmful acts
- Explain how safety is everybody's responsibility
- Recognize that accidental injuries are caused by unsafe acts, behaviors and conditions
- Prepare a job safety analysis and give job safety instructions
- Conduct an accident investigation and complete a meaningful accident report
- Respond to various work accidents and emergencies
- Plan and conduct a safety audit
►Target Audience
- Managers, supervisors and safety professionals who wish to improve their skills and competencies in order to be able to assume their safety responsibilities and effectively carry out their tasks safely in their organization.
►Course Outline
- Definitions and overview
- Why the concerns for safety?
- Various definitions of accident, safety, health
- World Health Organization (WHO) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Reaching threshold limit values
- The 6 Es in safety
- Industrial hygiene
- Recognition, evaluation, control
- Types of hazards in the workplace
- The four categories of hazards
- Control methods used in a safe environment
- Accident costs and reporting
- Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and safety audit
- Objectives of JSA
- JSA uses
- Benefits of JSA
- Procedures to follow for an effective JSA
- How to keep accurate recordings
- Importance of an audit
- Safety audit tools
- Benefits of a safety audit
- Consequences after the audit
- Accidents investigation, reporting and prevention
- Accidents and injuries at work
- Identifying causes of accidents
- Contributing causes of accidents
- Immediate causes of accidents
- Effects and costs of accidents
- Reporting requirements
- Importance of prevention
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