Objectives

• Appreciate their corporate and personal responsibilities under current health and safety law
• Be aware of the hazards that they may encounter and how to deal with them
• Know how to identify unsafe working practices and what to do about them

Course content

• General responsibilities
• Accident prevention and reporting
• Health and welfare
• Manual handling
• Work at height
• Personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Emergency procedures of first aid
• Safe use of hazardous substances
• Electrical safety
• Hand held equipment and tools
• Fire prevention and controls
• Safety signs and signals
• Site transport safety
• Noise and vibration
• Excavations and confined spaces