Occupational Safety
Environmental Health and Safety
A programme that brings together the health and environmental sides of safety in a facility: workers’ exposure to health hazards at work and how it is measured, the management of chemicals, spills, waste and emissions on site, and the organisation of inspections and performance indicators in one health, safety and environment system.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
3 days
Delivery
Training venue · At the organisation's premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Understand the scope of health, safety and environment in a facility and the link between occupational risks and environmental aspects.
- Recognise health hazards at work such as noise, dust, chemicals and heat stress, and the methods for measuring exposure and comparing it with occupational exposure limits.
- Manage chemicals on site: the inventory, safety data sheets, compatible storage, secondary containment and spill response.
- Control operational environmental aspects: waste, discharged water, emissions, dust and ambient noise.
- Prepare a health, safety and environment inspection programme with leading and lagging performance indicators.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: occupational health at work
- The scope of health, safety and environment and how its elements fit together in a facility.
- Health hazards at work: chemical; physical, such as noise, heat, vibration and radiation; biological; and ergonomic.
- Measuring exposure: personal noise dosimetry, air sampling in the breathing zone, the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) index, and comparison with occupational exposure limits.
- Health surveillance, hearing conservation and respiratory protection programmes.
Day 2: chemicals and environmental aspects
- The chemical inventory, safety data sheets, labelling under the Globally Harmonized System, compatible storage and secondary containment.
- Spills: spill kits, procedures and reporting.
- Environmental aspects on site: waste segregation and temporary storage, wastewater and contaminated water, emissions and dust, ambient noise, and their link to environmental permits.
Day 3: inspection, performance and assessment
- Inspection programmes and integrated HSE checklists, and follow-up of findings.
- Leading and lagging performance indicators; recording injuries, occupational illnesses and environmental incidents and analysing trends.
- Exercise: an inspection walk of a simulated site or the organisation’s site and a report of findings and actions, followed by the assessment.
Who it is for
Target audience
HSE coordinators and officers, supervisors in factories, warehouses, construction sites and laboratories, and staff who handle both the environmental and the occupational portfolios in small and medium-sized organisations.
Method
Delivery method
Short lectures, examples of noise, dust and heat measurement results and their interpretation, exercises on safety data sheets and inspection checklists, and an applied inspection walk when delivered at the organisation’s site. Delivered in person in the hall or at the organisation’s premises, in Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
What does this programme add to the other safety programmes?
It focuses on occupational health and environmental aspects on site and combines them with safety in a single inspection programme and set of performance indicators, whereas the other safety programmes focus on safety hazards or on management systems.
Can the applied inspection walk take place at our site?
Yes. When delivered at the organisation’s premises, the inspection walk covers a part of the site agreed with the safety officer, and its report is discussed with the participants.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.