A 4 day programme designed for those with safety co-ordinator / line management responsibilities looking to manage safely and effectively in line with both their organisation's policy and in compliance with health and safety legislation / best practice.

The course objective is to enable attendees to apply a risk based approach to ensure suitable controls are in place for work activities under their responsibility.

Outline: The Health & Safety (Consultation With Employees) Regulations 1996 requires employers to establish comprehensive consultation arrangements. This course enables employee representatives to make a genuine and balanced contribution to health and safety.

Designed for: Building / Infrastructure Managers, Health & Safety Staff, Contract Managers, Designers and Engineers.

Outline: The duties of key parties such as the client, designers etc. as defined within the CDM Regulations 2007.

This course will enable delegates to understand their own legal responsibilities and how they will interface with these parties under the Regulations.

The changes to the CDM Regulations and the role of the CDM co-ordinator will also be highlighted.

Designed for: Building and Infrastructure Managers, Health and Safety Staff, Purchasing, Contracts Managers.

Outline: The complex arrangements required to manage contractors are fully covered. The course considers the legal aspect of control, joint occupancy and joint responsibility.

Practical exercises develop understanding of the need for structured contractor selection, meetings, monitoring and contract review.

Designed for: Those appointed by the client (or client's agent) to perform the function of CDM co-ordinator for compliance with the CDM Regulations 2007.

Outline: The CDM co-ordinator has to co-ordinate the health and safety aspects of project design and the initial planning, to ensure as far as is possible that the issues arte fully addressed and compliance is achieved.

This assessed workshop will include design considerations to reduce risk, construction practice, co-operation and co-ordination of effort, the information pack, the construction phase plan and the health and safety file.

Designed for: Key staff nominated to conduct manual handling assessments in their own organisation.

Outline: Guidance enabling effective risk assessment of Manual Handling operations (regulations compliance). Structured assessment of practical lifting situations. Focus on movements with potential to damage individuals. Use of assessment form. Exercises enabling transfer of knowledge to own work situations.

Designed for: Key Staff nominated to conduct manual handling training in their own organisation and enable others to do the same.

Outline: Enables delegate competency in training others to conduct Manual Handling tasks using 'on-job-training' techniques. Success achieves a Licence Card (Valid for 2 years).

[MHR COURSES RUN AS LAST 2 DAYS OF STANDARD MHT COURSES]

Course pre-requisites: ACT Manual Handling Assessment course or equivalent and possess basic 'training skills'.

Designed for: Existing Manual Handling Trainers licence holders, where licence expiry due.

Outline: Re-qualification training for licensed manual handling trainers - success achieves a current Licence Card (Valid for 2 years). [Delegates are requested to bring along some of their own training materials / videos which will be utilised as part of the course. Where MHR ran in conjunction with MHT - MHR delegates may be asked to demonstrate their training skills by assisting in the training sessions.]

Attendees limited to 8; except when course ran in conjunction with Manual Handling Trainers, then limited to 6.

Designed for: Managers / Supervisors and Team Leaders

Outline: Highly Participative; develops investigation technique and accident causation analysis. Efficient investigation / reporting processes, suitable recommendations and records, are examined through exercises. Also considered: the effects of the Woolf Report on the investigation process, plus insurance expectations and claims management.

Designed for: Office / Facility / Personal Managers and H&S Staff or any organisation which uses computer workstations in the working environment.

Outline: The Health & Safety (DSE) Regulations require an assessment to be made of workstations. Practical guidance on the assessment of factors which influence risks to users including: layout; rest periods; training; ophthalmic requirements and the medical effects.

Designed for: Team Leaders, employee representatives, managers and safety professionals nominated to conduct risk assessments within their own workplace.

Outline: The management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations place a duty on employers to carry out risk assessment. This participative course is designed to develop an understanding of risk assessment techniques and they may be applied in the workplace and fulfil statutory duties.

Designed for: Individual contractors OR companies who require assurance on contractors' / sub-contractors' competence.

Designed for: Existing PTS licence holders, where licence expiry is due.

Outline: Informative and interactive course designed to equip and highlight some basic 'Management' skills for the working Supervisor. This will assist them in controlling the safety aspects within their working environment (valid for 3 years). Particularly for those involved in lone working.