BUSINESS CHALLENGE – Why Occupational Health and Safety ?  

With more and more industrialization and transportation of goods across the globe, work related injuries, ill health and fatality is one of the greatest challenges for the mankind. In 2016/2017 in the UK alone an estimated 31.2 million working days were lost due to work related illness and workplace injury, This equates to an estimated cost of 14.9 billion Pounds in one year.

It is a challenge for industry to understand and prioritize the Occupational, Health and Safety hazards and risks in their business processes. The need for an internationally acceptable standard to systematically manage the hazards and risks and improve the performance was felt for a long time. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted various existing Health and safety standards (such as BS OHSAS 18001) and published ISO 45001 in 2018, which specifies the requirements for a management system to protect against and reduce the likelihood of occurrence of risks 

SOLUTION

It is essential that all managerial and non managerial workmen are made fully aware of the hazards at workplace and the risks arising out of these hazards to the Safety of employees as well to the organization and methods to control them. It is also important that all employees are fully made aware of the applicable laws of the land and their provisions as applicable to their area of operations and consequences of not complying with the requirements. Formal training of employees is the right step in this direction.

CONTENTS

The aim of this course is to provide delegates with the knowledge and skills required to perform first, second and third-party audits of Occupational Health & Safety management systems against ISO45001, in accordance with ISO19011 and ISO17021, as applicable. All references in this document to ISO standards are to the current versions unless stated otherwise. Delegates who complete this CQI and IRCA Certified ISO45001 Lead Auditor (OHSAS) Training course successfully (within the three years prior to making an application to become a certificated auditor) will satisfy the training requirements for initial certification as an IRCA OHSAS auditor.

• Introduction of OHSMS
• Requirements of ISO45001
• Overview of Occupational Health and Safety issue
• Overview of OH&S Strategies
• Overview of Audit management, Performing audit and Audit Reporting for OHSMS
• Practical exercises, workshops, case studies, role plays and feedback.

EVALUATION & CERTIFICATION

There will be two types of assessments. The Continuous assessment where all participants will be assessed and awarded marks in each session on various competences and skills achieved including relevant soft skills. There will be a formal written examination at the end of the course. All the delegates who successfully complete both the continuous assessment and final examination would be awarded the “Certificate of achievement” and other participants will be awarded with “Certification of attendance”.

BENEFITS

The program uses a mixture of taught sessions, interactive group discussions and exercises to achieve its aims. The practical exercises are based upon the procedures, work instructions and could relate to many different enterprises equally.

On Attending this program, participants will have:

• An appreciation of the importance of OHSMS in Business operations.
• Knowledge of requirements of the Standard ISO45001
• An understanding of the approach towards implementing the OHSMS
• An understanding of the approach of auditing the requirements of the standard.
• Learning is accomplished through a series of interactive tutor presentation sessions and exercises.

LANGUAGE

Cantonese supportive with English materials

COURSE DURATION

3-day

COURSE VENUE

Public Courses are held at various training centers. The refreshments and lunches are provided during the course.

For accommodation and evening meal arrangements, please contact your local Bureau Veritas office.

CLASS SIZE

The maximum number of delegates for this course is 20 and the minimum is 4.

PRE-REQUISITES

All those whose responsibility it is to implement, maintain and improve an OH&SMS according to the ISO45001:2018 standard must attend this course.

Recommend prior knowledge: Delegates must have successfully completed a CQI-IRCA Certified Lead Auditor Training (40 hrs) on any subject with Annex SL Frame work based ISO Standards. Additionally they are recommended to undergo a Foundation training course on OHSMS (ISO 45001:2018 Foundation (CQI-IRCA FD127)).

Alternatively delegates are expected to acquire adequate knowledge on the following:

• Knowledge of the requirements of ISO45001
• Knowledge of the following Occupational health and safety management principles and concepts
• The purpose and benefits of a Hazard identification and risk assessment.
• The principles of risk assessment and analysis
• Typical OH&S Strategies
• OHSMS performance metrics, monitoring and performance measurement

Also individuals who have previously successfully completed IRCA / CQI-IRCA certified training courses but who have then elected not to progress to certify as IRCA auditors may choose to attend this transition course in order to receive recognition that their audit skills and knowledge remain concurrent

INHOUSE COURSES 

Courses can also be conducted as in house at your premises if you can make adequate participants available. For more details contact our nearest branch or office. Special Batches can be organized for homogenous groups at different hierarchy levels and for different duration depending on your organizational need.