Basic Certificate in Health Safety & Environment-HSE Level 2

Learn a proactive safety and health management approach through occupational safety and health management systems, applying the plan-do-check-act cycle and standards like ILO OSH 2001 and ISO 45001.

Align your organization's safety and health management with standards like ILO and ISO 45001; implement a proactive program built on the PDC cycle, audits, and risk assessment with employee involvement.

Plan, do, check, and act cycle drives continual improvement in health, safety and environment management by outlining plans, executing processes on small scale, measuring results, and acting on gaps.

Learn how OSH management systems use the plan-do-check-act cycle, guided by ILO 2001 and ISO 45001, to plan, implement, evaluate, and improve workplace safety.

Define a health and safety policy as the management-driven guiding document, signed by the CEO, outlining objectives, responsibilities, and clear communication to all employees to guide safety management.

Clarify health and safety responsibilities across management, supervisors, workers, and safety coordinators. Emphasize communication, adequate authority, and competence through training, tailgate talks, and safety committees to sustain program effectiveness.

Develop and implement health and safety rules and correct work procedures through risk assessment, employee participation, and clear, enforceable written guidelines aligned with government regulations.

Enhance health and safety through employee orientation, ongoing training, and active involvement, covering emergency procedures, reporting injuries and unsafe conditions and acts, personal protective equipment, and management accountability.

Conduct safety inspections to identify hazards, unsafe conditions and acts, and to evaluate hazard controls; plan corrective actions through planned, pre-operation, critical parts, and new equipment inspections.

Competent personnel, such as health and safety committee members, line supervisors, or workers, conduct inspections after adequate training, schedule inspections, and report hazards with corrective actions and follow-up.

Learn how to report and investigate accidents and near-misses to prevent recurrence, clarify the differences between accidents, incidents, and near-misses, and implement a proactive safety program.

Explore accident causation models, including root, direct, and contributing causes, and learn how the tree diagram, domino theories, and myth-based analysis identify root causes to prevent recurrence.

Identify competent investigators, follow immediate post-accident actions, and use physical evidence, eyewitness accounts, and documents to analyze causes and recommend preventive actions.

Explore central accident investigation analysis using causal factors, events and causal factors charting, change analysis, and root cause analysis to reach evidence-based conclusions and deliver specific, preventive, nonpunitive recommendations.

Draft an accurate, objective accident investigation report detailing the event chronology, causal factors, conclusions, and recommendations to prevent recurrence.

Analyze accident statistics to benchmark safety performance using frequency rate, incidence rate, and annual injury incidence rate, and learn to collect, analyze, and report injuries under applicable regulations.

Develop and implement emergency procedures within your health, safety and environment plan by listing hazards, defining evacuation and rescue countermeasures, and establishing resources, communication, and drills.

Explore workplace specific items that supplement core health, safety and environment plan elements like accident investigation, safety inspection, training, and employee involvement, including industry-specific requirements.

Explore risk assessment in health, safety and environment, including hazard identification and analysis, risk controls, monitoring and reporting, and the hierarchy of controls from elimination to personal protective equipment.

Learn the fundamentals of risk assessment, identify hazards and prioritize hazards, evaluate severity and probability, and implement controls to protect workers and assets.

Identify hazards and perform risk assessment through inspection and records, then analyze risk using a probability and severity matrix to rank hazards from low to extreme and implement controls.

Explore risk assessment fundamentals, from hazard identification to risk control hierarchy, monitoring, and reporting; learn how to review controls and document outcomes in a dynamic workplace.

Explore the hierarchy of controls from elimination to personal protective equipment, highlighting elimination and substitution as preferred options, plus engineering, administrative controls, and isolation strategies to reduce workplace hazards.

Discover administrative controls in the hierarchy of controls, including scheduling, training, standard operating procedures, housekeeping, emergency preparedness, personal hygiene, and permit to work, to manage hazards and reduce exposure.

Safety signs and signals act as administrative controls for health and safety information. They follow UK regulation guidance and use shapes and colors to convey prohibition, warning, and mandatory instructions.

Examine the hierarchy of controls, focusing on personal protective equipment as the final safeguard and the role of basic PPE, eye protection, safety footwear, headwear, and behavior-based safety.

Enroll in HSC Level three to advance your health, safety and environment credentials while exploring topics such as chemical safety, protective equipment, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, electrical safety, and first aid.