Managing Health & Safety

Outlines the key elements of health and safety management systems, including planning, performance, evaluation, and continual improvement through the PDCA cycle, and compares ILO OSH 2001 with OHSAS 18001.

Learn how to write a written health and safety policy aligned with ILO guidance, including statement of intent, organization, arrangements, smart objectives, and ongoing review.

Discover how health and safety culture drives performance through continual improvement and the 5C commitments. Learn to recognize indicators of poor culture, such as accidents, absenteeism, staff turnover, and noncompliance.

Human factors: organizational, job, and individual shape safety behavior, and their interaction drives risk. Improve by management commitment, resources, work patterns, ergonomic design, clear communication, and hazard perception training.

Improve health and safety culture through effective verbal, written, and graphical communication, clear feedback, and regular consultation reinforced by safety committees and training.

Explore the five-step risk assessment, define hazards and risks, identify those at risk, evaluate probability and severity, and apply the hierarchy of controls with recording and review.

Develop a formal, recorded safe system of work by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing a written procedure with residual risk controls, with active worker involvement.

Explore how a permit to work forms a safe system of work, controls high-risk tasks, and documents risk assessment, precautions, and extensions from issue to completion.

Develop and implement emergency procedures by coordinating with local ambulance, police, fire services, and enforcement authorities to ensure medical and non medical evacuations, training, and mock drills.

Preserve life, prevent deterioration, and promote recovery through essential first aid, wound dressing, and non-medication care. Establish stocked first aid boxes, an appointed person, and cpr training for emergencies.

Investigate injury incidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses, and damage-only events to identify immediate causes (unsafe acts/conditions) and root causes (management system failures) using a five-step process.

Learn to report incidents internally to trigger the provision of first aid, notify authorities, keep accident records, analyze five-year trends, and share lessons learned while protecting confidentiality.

Explore why organizations monitor health and safety, distinguish active and reactive monitoring, and use audits and inspections to benchmark performance, identify weaknesses, and drive remedial action.

The lecture explains why organizations use safety sampling and reactive monitoring, covering random sampling, environmental and noise monitoring, safety inspections, near-miss analysis, accident triangles, and enforcement actions.

Conducting inspection and audits examines health and safety management through internal or external audits, using document checks, records verification, and observations to identify strengths, weaknesses, and corrective actions for improvement.

Identify weaknesses in the management system and evaluate health and safety performance through quarterly and monthly reviews; ensure legal compliance and continual improvement.