SASTRAC: OHS Management System equips safety officers with the necessary tools to design & implement an effective and functioning OHS system.
Certificate of Successful Completion
In order to receive a SASTRAC: OHS Management System “certificate of successful completion”, you need to fulfill the following requirements:
- Attend all 10 days of the program.
- Compile and submit a portfolio of evidence that demonstrates your learning during the course
Course outline:
- Understand the legal liabilities in the workplace.
- Techniques to implement and evaluate the safety and health management programme in the workplace.
- The legal and specified requirements for conducting continuous risk assessments at the workplace
- The requirements for workplace safety, health and environmental incident investigations at the workplace.
- Conducting, reporting and acting on audit inspection at the workplace.
- Structure of the Course:
Module 1:
- What Management and Supervisory level legal liabilities entail?
- Accident or incident prevention and control
- The link between the OHS Act and a management system.
- What a management system must have to be deemed to be OHSAS 18001 compliant.
- The requirements for the implementation of a health and safety management programme.
- How to implement the procedures for evaluating health and safety performance at the workplace.
- To evaluate effectiveness of the system.
- Motivate the use of a She Management system.
Module 2:
- Discuss and apply the techniques for hazard identification and risk assessment at the workplace and implement remedial action and follow-up actions.
- Link Safe working procedures and planned task observations with Hazard Identification and risk assessment
- Describe requirements for workplace safety, health and environment incident investigation.
- Auditing procedures for legal compliance.
SASTRAC: OHS Management System: TARGET AUDIENCE
- She and Occupational health practitioners
- All health and safety managers, engineers and other persons directly involved in the implementation and management of health and safety within any organisation.
- All persons wishing to have a full understanding of OHS at the workplace, the purpose behind OHS and also how to successfully implement it.
- Line Managers and supervisors
- Department of Labour inspectors
- She Representatives, committee members
