Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
What is health and safety and why manage it?
- Legal considerations.
- Moral considerations.
- Financial considerations.
- Business considerations.
UK legislation
- Civil liabilities and law.
- Duty of care.
Common law
Syndicate exercise
The CDM Regulations
- Application.
- Identification of duty holders.
- Competence.
- Designers/ architects.
- Main contractor.
- Planning supervisor.
- Health and safety plan.
- General contents.
- Pre-tender.
- Construction phase.
- Health and Safety File.
- Format.
- Content.
- Link to contract documents.
- Ongoing use and integration.
- Duty holders’ roles and responsibilities.
- Information and training.
- Competence.
- Communication and cooperation.
- Exclusion of civil liabilities.
Successful health and safety management (HSG65)
- Policy statement.
- Organisation.
- Arrangements.
- Implementation.
- Monitoring.
- Review.
- Audit.
- Application to CDM.
Individual exercise – How well do you manage contractors?
Mock assessment and feedback
Planning and pre-tender
Risk assessment:
- Hazards.
- Risk.
- Evaluation of risks.
- Hierarchy of controls.
Syndicate exercise – Identifying hazards, assessing risk and introducing controls
Permit to work
- Introduction.
- Description.
- Requirements.
- Activities requiring a permit to work.
- The system principles.
- Selection of contractors.
- Selecting a competent contractor and building a checklist.
- Syndicate exercise – Producing a reasonable enquiries checklist.
- Method statements and safe systems of work.
- Evaluation.
- Syndicate exercise – Using risk assessments to produce method statements.
- Contractors on site.
- Induction.
- Controls.
- Arrangements.
- De-briefs.
- Syndicate exercise – Induction checklist.
- Emergencies on site.
- What can go wrong.
- Planning and being prepared.
- Carrying out simulated exercises.
- Syndicate exercise – Considering emergency arrangements and planning.
- Monitoring.
- Setting of projects.
- Final assessment.
- Summary and close.
