It is estimated by the health and safety executive that in the UK about 500 people are killed at work every year and several hundred thousand more are injured or suffer ill-health.It is estimated that the cost to UK employers of work-related injury and illness exceeds £4 billion a year. Never let it be said that health and safety management training is not a cost effective investment.
Implementing knowledge acquired by health and safety management training for the achievement of good working practices, and the elimination of hazards, is the responsibility of everyone involved with what the organisation does and produces. Consider health and safety management training as a serious event.
However the onus is on all managers to go beyond the standards of health and safety management training as required by legislation, regulations and codes of practices.
Programme Introduction
In 1989 the Community adopted what has now become known as the Framework Directive, which identified in one document the general duties required of employers to protect the health and safety of their employees and others who may become involved with their operations. In the UK, the implementation of European Directive 90/269 EC became effective on January 1st 1993, when the various elements of the Directive became part of the health and safety at work act 1974.
The legislation is sometimes known as "the six pack":
The management of health and safety at work regulations
The manual handling operations regulations
The workplace (health and safety and welfare) regulations
The health and safety (display screen equipment) regulations
Personal protective equipment at work regulations
The provision and use of work equipment regulations
Though each Directive is important in its own right, it is vital to consider the Directives as a whole to understand their interaction with one another.
be aware of and monitor the individual capabilities of those who are required to lift and handle loads
Our health and safety management training programmes reflects these elements and consolidates participants knowledge and understanding of their responsibility in minimising risks, working to procedures and maintaining a safe environment.
Our health and safety management training events will be designed to suit your organisations products, processes, practices etc., and objectives,where possible. Also the health and safety management training will include work audits and investigations, work based assignments, projects and presentations.
In this way we ensure that health and safety management training is relevant to the organisation, its employees and management and is therefore value adding.
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It is estimated by the health and safety executive that in the UK about 500 people are killed at work every year and several hundred thousand more are injured or suffer ill-health. It is estimated that the cost to UK employers of work-related injury and illness exceeds £4 billion a year. Never let it be said that health and safety management training is not a cost effective investment.
There are five main elements which require attention:
