Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
0 Hour(s) 54 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Kamel Mohamed
Rating
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Course Overview
Learn how to conduct a complete risk assessment in your workplace
Risk Assessments Can Save Lives
Risk assessments can save lives, hazards can cause life-threatening accidents and health conditions.
For example, fire hazards put many people’s lives at risk , exposure to dangerous substances can cause long-term and potentially fatal health conditions and dangerous work equipment such as heavy machinery can also take lives if not used correctly.
By identifying these hazards, and implementing the control measures to eliminate or reduce their effects, risk assessments can save lives.
Risk Assessments Are Legal Requirement
Risk assessments are a legal requirement. All companies and self-employed people are required to consider health and safety risks in the workplace.
Risk Assessments Prevent Business Financial Loss
If employees are affected by work-related injuries or ill-health, they will need to take time off and companies may need to cover sick-pay and the cost of employment cover, there may also be legal fees and affected parties may claim compensation..
Carrying out a thorough risk assessment and taking steps to reduce the assessed risks can prevent accidents and ill-health and the costs that come with them.
This course provides basic concepts of risk assessment and advanced techniques of risk assessment - After fininshing the course you will have a very good understanding about:
What is risk assessment.
The steps of a complete risk assessment.
The different types of hazards you might face in your work place.
The different techniques of hazard identification.
How to weight , evaluate and control the risks.
How to record and review your risk assessment.
How to use some advanced techniques of risk assessments (such as: HAZOP , Fault tree analysis and Event tree analysis).
Hope that you enjoy the course.
HAPPY LEARNING
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 42 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Important Terms
- Section 3 Introduction about Risk Assessment
- Section 4 The five steps of risk assessment
- Section 5 First step: Hazard identification
- Section 6 Step 2: Identify people at risk
- Section 7 Step 3 : Risk estimation , evaluation and control
- Section 8 Step 4: Record the findings of the risk assessment
- Section 9 Step 5: Review and update of risk assessment
- Section 10 Risk assessment case study
What You’ll Learn
- What is risk assessment
- What are the benefits of conducting a risk assessment in your workplace
- The criteria for suitable & sufficient risk assessments
- The five steps of a risk assessment
- Various types of hazrads
- Various techniques of hazard identification
- Identify people at risk
- How to weight and evaluate the magnitude of the risk
- How to control risks and the factors to be considered in selecting control measures
- Recording and updating risk assessments
- Using some advanced techniques of Risk Assessment (HAZOP , Fault tree analysis and Event tree analysis)
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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DDavid Nzau Dica
sim, foi o que sempre precisei ter.
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VValentina Cesari
Straight to the point, good for people who already have some knowledge in the field. I really appreciated the case studies
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BBlake D. LaRue
Yes, great information to learn as initial training or even as a refresher course.
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DDaniel James
This course provided a foundational understanding of hazard identification, risk evaluation, and control measures in workplace settings.
