Designing and Implementing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) for the Workplace
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Designing and Implementing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) for the Workplace Course
Introduction:
Ensuring a safe working environment for employees is the primary obligation of employers. It is essential to safeguard workers against workplace injuries and illnesses. Experience has demonstrated that effective health and safety management is achieved by implementing processes that comprehensively address various aspects of safety within a management system framework.
Notably, a performance-based occupational health and safety management system specification called OHSAS 18001 has been recently developed in the UK. This specification aligns with ISO 9001 for quality management systems and ISO 14001 for environmental management systems, and it is anticipated to serve as a precursor to an international standard in the future.
Course Objectives:
Be able to design and implement a program to identify and manage workplace hazards for occupational health and safety.
Who Should Attend?
Individuals involved with or responsible for occupational health and safety in an organization.
Course Outlines:
Establishing an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)
- Terms
- Purpose
- Benefits
- OHSAS 14001
- Continuous improvement
- Issues for managers
Key aspects of the management system
- Planning
- Organizing
- Implementing
Policies, procedures and work instructions - Documentation and records
- Communications
- Leadership
Management system elements
- Employee involvement
- Training, orientation, employee awareness and competence
- Collection and management of information
- Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
- Procedures
- Safe work practices
- Permits to work
- Pre-job safety checks
- Maintaining tools and equipment
- Change management
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Accidents, incidents, non-conformances and corrective and preventive actions
- Performance measurement and monitoring
- Reviews and audits
Understanding workplace hazards
- Unsafe conditions
- Unsafe behavior
- Types of injuries and illnesses
- Typical sources of injuries and illnesses
Human factors in the workplace
- Personnel selection
- Training
- Use of temporary personnel and contractors
- Workplace design and engineering
- Ergonomics
- Design of procedures
- Usability of equipment
- Effective communications
- Design of jobs and tasks
- Workload and staffing
- Workplace design and layout
- Work environment
- Organizational issues
Overview of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and Direct Hazard Analysis (DHA)
- Purpose
- Benefits
- Terms used
- Approaches
- Uses
- Levels of detail
- Stages and steps
- Cautions and limitations
- Issues for managers
Defining jobs and tasks
- Identifying jobs
- Job lists
- Collecting information
- Observing job performance
- Task analysis
Preparing for JSA/DHA & Performing JSA/DHA
- Procedures
- Flowcharts
- Risk ranking
- Facilitating studies
- Advantages and disadvantages
Recording and documenting JSA/DHA studies
- Deciding on corrective actions
- Priorities
- Tracking action items
Behavioral safety
- Changing workplace cultures
- Dealing with peer pressure
- Avoiding the concepts of blame and punishment