Are You Responsible for the Safety Activities On A Construction Site?
Construction is one of the most hazardous industries to work in – millions of workers die yearly from occupational accidents and work-related diseases.
And that´s not all – millions also suffer non-fatal accidents at work and have to deal with stress and psychological risks.
Luckily, taking steps toward improving working conditions can prevent all of this.
Are you confident that you have the proper processes in place for controlling safety activities in order to protect employees, contractors, and the public?
Are you ensuring a safe working Environment?
Comprehensive planning, monitoring, and control over health and safety responsibilities are essential for the success of your construction project.
A safety management system prevents the worst-case scenario from happening on one of your sites, reducing accidents and driving employee morale in one go.
Benefits of Construction Safety Management
Construction workers suffer more fatal and non-fatal injuries than workers who belong in any other industry.
Minimized Risks And Save Lives
Appropriate measures improve safety on-site, preventing suffering or loss
Compliance
A safety management framework allows your company or organization to meet its legal obligations
Workplace Safety
Create awareness among your employees. Reduce incidents in the workplace.
Are you taking every reasonable precaution to ensure safety?
Do you have a process to identify the hazards and risks that are present at a site level as well as within the work practices?
You have a responsibility to make your work environment safe: not just for you but also for your contractors and the public in the surrounding area.
It is your legal obligation to comply with legislation and regulations. Breaching health and safety regulations is a criminal offense.
Effectively managing safety is a daunting task, which is why we’ve put together this course
Managing Safety in Construction
This will give you all the tools that you need for your safety program.
About the Instructor
Gavin Coyle
I have been working in the area of compliance and recruiting for over 25 years.
I often get asked why I made health and safety a career and what led me to where I am today.
I want to help and share my experiences with employers and their teams to improve safety, corporate governance, risk maturity and resourcing so that every employer can find practical and achievable solutions and every worker can feel safe, secure and without risk within the workplace.
In The Basics of Managing Safety in Construction
What You'll Learn
Objectives and outcomes you can expect in this course.
This module gives you the outline of the course, the key elements to effectively manage construction projects.
In this module, we will discuss what due diligence is, how we can determine due diligence and the importance of documentation as a support to proving due diligence.
We will discuss the roles and responsibilities that the employers, the supervisors, the workers, and any contracted workforces play in ensuring safety on a construction project.
In every construction project, there are some common hazards that may be present. In this section we will review what hazards are, some of the most common and how to begin to identify hazards on the projects.
Once hazards have been determined, assessing risk becomes the next critical step. In this section we will cover basic risk assessments as well as pre-task or last-minute risk assessments.
Once hazards and risks are identified, the next area of focus is on control.
In this section, we will discuss the hierarchy of controls, the use of work permits as well as the use of toolbox or safety talks to ensure controls are properly understood.
During this module, you will learn about human factors and controls. These factors must be considered when managing health and safety on any construction project or site.
During this module, we will review types of incidents and severity of incidents, we will discuss incident reporting and investigations, critical incidents and discuss the idea of the early and safe return to work.
During this module, we will discuss measuring safety performance and its importance in determining the success of the preventive measures applied at the site or on the project.
As An Added Bonus You Will Receive
+ Certification
Certificate of completion of the Basics of Managing Safety in Construction.
All This For
Only €27.99/ Person
Why Take This Course?
Are you confident that you have the proper processes in place for controlling safety activities in order to protect employees, contractors, and the public?
Providing health & safety information, systems and training helps you to ensure that you and your workers are not injured or made ill by the work they do.
This course will equip you with the knowledge of all the elements to effectively manage construction projects.
By the end of the course, you will have the essential skills and knowledge to ensure you and your colleagues are working in a safe environment.
After Completing This Course, Learners Will:
Be able to measure safety performance and provide insights into where improvements should be implemented.
Understand safety in construction and manage the safety of their teams and their projects
Identify how the risk
associated with identified
hazards can be eliminated or minimised
Understand the types of incidents and severity, incident reporting and investigations.
Get The Basics of Managing Safety in Construction Course
Only $27.99/person
Frequently Asked Questions
How are the courses delivered?
All www.gavin-coyle.com have been developed by the leading safety experts within the Coyle Group business.
The aim of the courses is to deliver the necessary information to people in basic language and without much jargon.
The self-directed courses give learners the flexibility to choose a course, and to study it in their own time and at their own pace.
All modules are short in duration and are delivered as basic awareness courses to include downloadable templates and a certificate of attendance.
Who are these courses for?
The online courses are suitable for anyone who wants to increase their awareness of health and safety in the workplace.
They are particularly relevant to those working in construction, and small businesses.
Anyone can enroll and complete any number of courses that will benefit them, their employees, colleagues, service users, or students in the area of safety, health, and welfare in the workplace.
Are the courses certified?
On successful completion of a course, learners can download a certificate of completion.
This certificate is confirmation that you have completed an awareness-raising course.
It is not a qualification but may be used for training record purposes in work or education.
Further information is available on each course outline page.
How many courses can I take?
You can take any number of courses in the online suite.
Once you have registered and have your login details, simply browse the list of courses available.
You may choose any of the courses available that are beneficial and of interest to you.
Simply follow the instructions to login and enroll.
How long does it take to complete a course?
The time to complete a course will vary.
Most of the courses have an estimated completion time of 45min minutes, others will take approximately 1 hr 30 mins minutes to complete.
Can you save a partly completed course and come back to it?
Yes, you can progress through a course at your own pace.
The system will save your progress and you can leave a course and logout and come back and complete it at a later time/date.
However, you must complete the entire course successfully to receive certification.
How long will I be enrolled on a course for?
Once you have been enrolled on a course you can access it any time, even if you have completed the course.
The course may be reviewed in review mode without affecting your progress.
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