Improving workplace safety and saving money with targeted training:
High-quality safety and health training plays a crucial role in preventing work-related injuries and illnesses. Additionally, effective training motivates workers by equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to advocate for safer working conditions. A safe working environment also leads to enhanced financial security for organisations, since the costs associated with accidents, falls, and other safety events, are eliminated or substantially reduced.
Training should be undertaken in a professional and strategic manner, by qualified facilitators, to ensure that participants are equipped to handle incidents in the correct manner as legislated by the OHS Act. Strat Training runs several training courses concentrating on occupational health and safety. Two of these include Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment (Level 3), and O.H.A.S.A. (Level 5).
Hazard & Risk Assessment (Level 3)
This course covers topics such as safety, workplace inspections, and principles of the OHS Act. It is designed to enable learners to ensure that safety, health, and environmental principles and procedures are applied effectively in the workplace.
It discusses topics such as the principles of the act, potential risks and hazards, and the proper identification of risks and hazards.
This course is designed around four modules, covering topics like managing the scene of an emergency, the basic human anatomy and physiology, and the primary and secondary survey.
Organisations will benefit from the knock-on financial implications of conducting risk assessments. By identifying and mitigating risks timeously, not only will there be less downtime and medical costs associated with injuries and illnesses at work, but insurance companies regard this mitigation in a positive light, and as a result, policy payments may either be reduced, or not increased.
(Unit Standard: 259624 — NQF Level: 2 — Credits: 4) —Control workplace hazards and risks
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O.H.A.S.A. (Level 5)
Demonstrating knowledge and application of the OHS Act is an integral part of being a Safety Officer, since this is the person responsible for health and safety activities. Such an individual needs to be competent in all matters relating to health and safety and should always adhere to the standards of the OHS Act.
This course includes16 modules that range from legal knowledge, and duties and responsibilities of the Safety Officer, to a concise investigation of the Act itself.
Other modules covered include, but are not limited to, incident and accident prevention, philosophy of accidents, management systems, hazard identification analysis, and risk assessment. Attention is also paid to health and safety policies, and general safety applications.
Four modules cover topics like managing the scene of an emergency, the basic human anatomy and physiology, and the primary and secondary survey.
OHASA: (Unit Standard: 244288 – NQF Level: 5 – Credits: 8)
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