Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. The course covers the importance of occupational health, safety and industrial hygiene in the workplace with special emphasis on industrial plants. It presents the majority of the latest aspects in risk management and accident investigation. The course highlights how to identify safety training needs. Near miss, incident and accident reporting is handled to show how these statistics can help to prevent losses to the company and employees. Industrial hygiene will be thoroughly discussed in this course including the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of health hazards in the workplace. The course will explain the necessity for backup information through laboratory research and field studies in all aspects of recognition, evaluation and control in order to assume a healthful working environment. The need for formal working procedures is stressed so that all employees have conformity in their operations. A change in employee attitude is needed to improve the safety situation in a plant. The management of hazardous materials is covered by giving full details of storage, handling and safe disposal of spills.Dangerous operations relating to confined space entry, scaffolding, hot work and gases are discussed in detail. A number of case histories will be covered to analyze the reasons for accidents and how they could have been prevented. The types and uses of safety equipment and personal protective equipment are also discussed.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30