COURSE OVERVIEW

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.
Safety Programme auditing is covered to show how this can gauge the company’s safety status. The “Permit to Work” system is described in detail to show how it can save lives. Emergency procedures are covered to ensure minimum additional loss in the case of an accident. Further, this course covers the training requirement by OSHA for PSM (Process Safety Management) as per OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119.