Occupational Safety
Workplace Risk Assessment
A practical programme in identifying, assessing and controlling workplace hazards and in documenting and reviewing the assessment, using site inspections, job safety analysis and the risk matrix, applied to activities from the participants’ own workplaces.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
3 days
Delivery
Training venue · At the organisation's premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Distinguish between hazard and risk and determine who might be harmed and how.
- Use hazard identification tools: site inspections, job safety analysis, review of incidents and near misses, and the what-if technique.
- Estimate risk with a likelihood and severity matrix and determine the acceptable level of risk.
- Select controls according to the hierarchy of control and estimate the residual risk.
- Document the risk assessment, communicate it to workers, decide when it is reviewed, and link it to permits to work and management of change.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: concepts and hazard identification
- Hazard, risk and incident; the legal requirements for risk assessment and its place in management systems.
- Hazard categories: mechanical, electrical, chemical, physical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial.
- Identification tools: the site inspection, step-by-step job safety analysis, the what-if technique, review of incident records, and worker involvement.
Day 2: estimating and controlling risk
- Risk matrices: defining likelihood and severity levels, acceptance criteria, and the principle of reducing risk as low as reasonably practicable.
- The hierarchy of control with examples at each level, residual risk, and action plans and their owners.
- Specific assessments: manual handling, chemicals, work in the heat, lone working, and groups at greater risk.
Day 3: documentation, review and application
- The assessment form and the risk register, communicating results to workers, and links to permits to work and pre-job briefings.
- Reviewing the assessment after incidents, on change and periodically; management of change.
- An overview of advanced methods such as hazard and operability studies (HAZOP) and when an organisation needs them.
- Workshop: each team prepares a complete assessment of an activity from its own workplace and presents it for discussion, followed by the assessment.
Who it is for
Target audience
Supervisors and team leaders, safety coordinators, operations and maintenance engineers, and anyone who prepares or approves risk assessments or job safety analyses.
Method
Delivery method
Exercises on photographs and video from workplaces, step-by-step job safety analysis of real tasks, and a final workshop in which a complete assessment is built. The organisation’s approved risk assessment form can be used instead of the generic one. Delivered in person in the hall or at the organisation’s premises, in Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
Can we use our own risk assessment form?
Yes. If the organisation shares its form and approved risk matrix with the centre before the programme, the exercises and the workshop are built on them.
Is the programme suitable for people who are not safety specialists?
Yes. It suits supervisors and operations and maintenance engineers who prepare assessments for their own work, and no previous safety background is required.
Is there a certificate?
Every participant who attends the programme and passes the assessment receives a certificate of completion from Technology Experts Training Center, licensed by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.
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.