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Course Overview Every organisation has a legal duty to carry out assessments of risks in the workplace. If you are the person - or one of the people - with responsibility for risk assessments in your organisation, you need to make sure that you know the legal requirements, that you understand the principles of risk assessment and that you can actually perform 'suitable and sufficient' risk assessments. This course has been designed specifically to help you do just that. The very experienced and popular presenter will outline the structure of health and safety law in relation to the requirement for risk assessments and explore how the responsibilities for undertaking risk assessment should function in an organisation. The course will consider what is a suitable and sufficient risk assessment and explore this practically through a number of risk assessment exercises. Audience This course is designed for anyone who has a responsibility for undertaking general health and safety risk assessments as part of their job function, including: - Health and safety staff
- Property, facilities and maintenance managers and staff
- HR managers and staff
- Office managers
Course Outline 1. Introduction - Risk assessments - why bother?
2. Overview of health and safety law - Statute and civil law
- Liability and enforcement
- Statutory duties
3. Legislative framework and the need for risk assessment - Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Workplace Regulations
- Specific risks - COSHH, manual handling, etc
4. Principles of risk assessment - Definition of hazard
- Hazard identification
- Definition of risk
- Definition of risk assessment
- Purpose of risk assessment
- Who should assess risk?
- The key steps to risk assessment
- Assessing the risk
- Definition of residual risk
- Types of assessment
- Controlling the risk
- Record keeping
5. Risk assessment exercise - Delegates will carry out an activity based risk assessment
6. What is a 'suitable and sufficient risk assessment'? - What is a 'suitable and sufficient risk assessment'?
- Who decides?
7. Risk management within an organisation - Business risk management
- Health and safety risk management
- Transferring the baton of risk responsibility
- The use of dynamic risk assessments
8. Risk control - Hierarchy of control
- Types of control measures
- Measuring effectiveness
- Reviewing risk assessments
9. Manual handling risk assessments - Assessing the task
- Assessing the individual
- Assessing the load
- Assessing the environment
10. Display screen equipment (DSE) risk assessments - What has to be assessed
- How to carry out an assessment
11. Risk assessment - practical exercise - Delegates will carry out a DSE and manual handling risk assessment
12. Review
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