Occupational Health and Industrial Safety Management: Health, Safety and Environment

Program Overview:

Accidents, injuries, sickness and insecurity are daily facts of life. However the world of work exposes working people in a peculiar way making them more vulnerable to these accidents. Precaution therefore, is vital if industrial accidents are to be minimized and productivity improved. This can be achieved through training and retraining thereby creating awareness in the mind of the workers. This workshop is therefore designed to enable participants develop requisite skills for enhancing industrial safety in their work environments.

For Whom:

Operation  managers, Supervisors, Project Team Leaders, Foremen, Plant managers, Factory managers and workers who are prone to occupational accident in their work environment in Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Construction and Engineering Services industries that find the programme relevant.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

*             define and explain safety issues within and around their work environment;

*             identify causes of occupational health hazards/industrial accidents;

*             investigate and identify measures by which losses, resulting from avoidable accidents can be reduced;

*             explain the role of insurance in industrial safety management; and

*             design relevant safety communication channels/measures to control and reduce occupational health hazards

Course Outline:

Day 1: The concept of occupational health and industrial safety:             

• Accidents, injuries, sickness and insecurity In the work environment
  • Factories Act & Decree
• Introduction to safety at work:
  • Risk assessment and Accident Concepts
• Accidents:
  • Causes in work environments
  • Accidents reporting procedures.

Day 2: Identifying and tackling occupational health and safety hazards in the work environment

• Health, Safety and Environment Management System and its implementation
• Hazard identification and control,
• Application of job hazard analysis,
• First Aid and CPR
• Implementing occupational health and safety management system in the work environment

Day 3: Injuries: a matter of probabilities, HSE performance indicators, Loss time injury frequency (LTIF)

• Understanding workplace ergonomics Workplace interactions,
• Ergonomic risk factors:
• Ergonomics of Computer usage,
• lifting techniques
• Types and uses of personal protective safety devices in the work environment

Day 4: 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

Day 5: Fire safety: Prevention, detection and

fire crisis management in the work environment

• Contingency planning/crises management in

the work environment

• Industrial safety plan and implementation

schedule / awareness creation

• Waste management recycling option, abating

environmental pollution

• Role of insurance in industrial safety management

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, Audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these Teaching/learning methods