Occupational Health and Safety Management

Statement of Need

Occupational Health and Safety is concerned with the safety and security of both the workers and employer. Occupational health and safety management (OHSM) encompasses more than just your health and safety programme. It includes health and safety policies, systems, standards, and records, and involves incorporating your health and safety activities and programme into your other business processes.

This programme is designed to assist human resource practitioners and other managers to have skills that are required for managing their daily duties regarding OH&S, by providing guidelines and assistance in defining health and safety objectives and developing policies and procedures.

Who Attends

Human resource practitioners, supervisors, safety coordinators, occupational health nurses, joint health and safety committee’s members, medical officers

How participants will benefit

At the end of the programme, participants should be able to:

• Develop an occupational health and safety management system
• Assess and control hazards
• Interpret office and supplies legal requirements
• Interpret office and supplies principles to establishing industrial hygiene

Topics Include

• Establishment of OH&S management systems, 
• Workers health promotion, 
• Hazard assessment and control, ergonomics, 
• Basic principles of fire fighting. 
• OH&S legal requirements, 
• OH&S related communication, participation and consultations, 
• OH&S documentation, occupational health and industrial hygiene