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08:30 |
1.0 Course administration |
Registration and domestics in accordance with venue requirements |
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08:45 |
2.0 Course introduction
2.1 Aims and objectives |
- Introduce GE 706 ‘Site Safety Simplified’.
- To Understand:
- The problems of the industry: accident record, itinerent workforce
- The structure of health and safety law.
- How the supervisory role fits in within the site management structure
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2.2 The role of the supervisor |
- Exercise: pairs of delegates produce a short list of the things a supervisor does on site.
- Exercise conclusion to include the following supervisory key functions:
- leading by example
- communicationg the safety message
- ensuring the safety and welfare of people on site
- inputting ideas in to risk assessment and controls
- undertaking inspections
- maintaining records
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10:30 |
3.0 Health and safety law
3.1 Health and safety law |
- Main areas of law:
- Criminal
- Civil
- Explanation of:
- acts
- regulations
- approved codes of practice
- guidance – HSE/industry
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3.2 Health and safety at Work etc. Act |
- Sections 2 to 4 and 6 to 9
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3.3 Health and safety enforcement |
- Criminal law, court powers (fines and/or custodial sentances).
- Power of inspectors
- Improvement notice
- Prohibition notice.
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4.0 Safe systems of work
4.1 Hazard idntification |
- Definition of a hazard: anything with the potential to cause harm, associated with:
- articles
- substances
- plant or machines
- working environment
- other aspects of work organisation
- Hazards: four main groups:
- 1. PHYSICAL:
- slips, trips and falls
- fire
- tools, machines and equipment
- electricity
- noise
- 2. BIOLOGICAL:
- micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi)
- insects (mites, parasites)
- human and animal waste
- sharps (needles, scalpels)
- 3. CHEMICAL
- liquids (paints, solvents, oil, etc.)
- dust and fibres
- gases and vapours
- 4. ERGONOMIC
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4.2 Risk assessment |
Definition of risk: The likliehood of a hazard causing harm and the nature and extent of the resulting harm.
HSE Five Steps to Risk Assessment
1. Identify the hazards: something with the potential to cause harm:
- physical
- chemical
- biological
- ergonomic
2. Establish who can be harmed and how groups and individuals:
- employees
- visitors
- members of the public
- lone workers
- young people
3. Evaluate the risks: consider control measures already in place. Are we doing enough to prevent harm? Do we need to do more? What is the:
4. Record your findings:
- Recording required only if you employ five or more employees.
- Significant findings (hazards and conclusions).
- Suitable and sufficient
5. Review and revise
- Ensure it remains valid and effective
- Must consider changes to workplace, people, equipment, systems etc.
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Hierarchy of risk controls. Controlling risks by:
- elimination/substitution
- reduction/control of source
- isolation (barriers/removal)
- containment (engineering controls)
- procedures, systems and training
- personal protective equipment (PPE)
- adoption of a safe method
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4.3 Method statement |
- What is it?
- How can it be communicated?
- Contents
- Critical elements
- Who?
- What?
- Why?
- Where?
- When?
- How?
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4.4 Principles of prevention |
- Avoid risks
- Evaluate risks which cannot be avoided
- Combat risks at source
- Adapt work to the individual
- Adapt work to technical progress
- Replace dangerous with non-dangerous
- Coherent prevention policy
- Collective measures
- Appropriate instruction
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4.5 Special considerations |
- What categories of persons are deemed as special cases when preparing risk assessments? e.g. Young Persons.
- What are the considerations? e.g. enhanced supervison
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12.00 |
5.0 Health and safety management
5.1 Safety policies |
HSG65 Succesful health and safety management
- Main elements:
- POLICY
- organising
- planning and implementing
- measuring performance
- review and audit
- Health and safety policy – why?
- allows top management to demonstrate commitment
- Sets aims and objectives on how health and safety will be managed
- legal requirement (Health and safety at work etc. act 1974)
- Contents of health and safety policy:
- statement of intent: aims and objectives, resources
- organisation: responsibilities
- arranements: systems and procedures
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5.2 Measuring performance |
- Measuring performance against:
- company objectives/KPIs
- HSE statistics
- How we measure:
- visual inspections/audits
- testing workforce understanding
- observing tasks being performed
- measurement records
- CSCS/CPCS card audits
- injuries, near-misses, ill health
- induction records
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5.3 Permit systems |
- What is the purpose of a permit system?
- How does a permit system control work?
- How can work be monitored and measured using permit systems
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 |
6.0 Occupational health
6.1 Noise |
- Acute effects:
- acute acoustic trauma
- temporary threshold shift
- tinnitus
- Chronic effects:
- permananent threshold shift
- noise induced hearing loss
- tinnitus
- Other effects
- irritability (stress)
- affects concentration and efficiency
- causes fatigue and accident proneness
- masks sounds that people may need to hear
- Noise at work regulations
- risk assessment
- reduction to the risk of hearing damage
- reduction of noise expossure starting with engineering controls
- provision and maintenance of hearing protection
- provision of information and training for employees
- manufacturers and others to provide ‘noise data’.
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- Control of noise at work regulations 2005
- Lower exposure action value (80db):
- carry out noise assessment
- make hearing protection available
- provide IIT
- ensure correct use
- Upper exposure action value(85db):
- noise assessment
- resuce noise at source
- noise must be reduced ALARP
- limit employees exposure
- provide hearing protection
- designate hearing protection zones
- employees duty to use control measures
- IITs
- Exposure limit value (87db):
- must not be exposed above this limit
- noise assessment (can take hearing protection into account)
- noise must be reduced ALARP
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6.2 Vibration |
- Sources of vibration:
- prolonged use of rotating hand tools used for cutting and grinding etc.
- percussive hand tools used for chipping, riveting, hammering and drilling etc.
- hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS):
- vibration white finger (VWF)
- Reynaud’s phenomenon
- carpal tunnel syndrome
- Control of Vibration at Work regulations:
- daily exposure limit value 5.0m.s-2 is maximum allowable exposure
- daily exposure action value 2.5m.s-2 exposure above this requires assessment
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6.3 Asbestos |
- Types:
- White: chrysotile
- brown: amosite
- blue: crocidolite
- Properties
- excellent insulator
- easy to use
- fire protection
- applications:
- Asbestos cement
- sheeting
- walls and roofs
- Asbestos lagging:
- pipes
- boilders
- lofts
- Sprayed:
- structural steelwork
- boilders
- roofs
- Asbestos insulation board(AIB):
- walls
- partitions
- ceiling tiles
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6.4 Drugs and alcohold |
- Problems associated with drugs and alcohol in a high risk industry
- Depressants
- Increased risk?
- As a supervisor, what action would you take if you knew someone is under the influence of drugs or alcohol
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6.5 Dermatitis |
- Dermatitis affects the skin and can produce symptoms that range from uncomfortable to severe health problems
- Irritant contact dermatitis
- Sensitising dermatitis
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6.6 Asthma |
- Occupational asthma can be contracted through breathing in dusts, fumes, or solvents.
- It causes irritation in the airways making it difficult to breathe
- It causes chronic health defects
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6.7 Health monitoring |
- Health monitoring can be a very simple check by operatives themselves or more detailed monitoring by a competent person.
- Health monitoring/surveillance is required by law.
- MCG Occupational Health Strategy and toolbox talks
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14:45 |
7.0 Fire prevention/control and other emergencies |
- Anatomy of fire:
- Fuel: something to burn
- Heat: to ignite the fuel
- oxygen: to sustain the fire
- Types of fire:
- A Freely burning solids, e.g woods
- B Flammable liquids, e.g petrol
- C Flammable gases, e.g propane
- D Flammable metals, e.g. magnesium
- F Cooking oils and fats
- Electrical fires are not classified
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7.1 Regulatory Reform (Fire Order) 2006 |
- Risk assessment
- Responsible persons
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7.2 Fire prevention (Fire Plan) |
- All workplaces have a fire prevention strategy and fire plan
- Management of highly flammable liquids, gases and explosive atmospheres
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- Causes of fires:
- arson
- faulty electrics
- misuse of equipment
- careless handling
- incorrect fuel storage
- articles too close to heat source
- Sources of ignition:
- cooking appliances
- electrical appliances
- smokers
- matches
- blowlamps
- space heaters
- static electricity
- friction
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7.3 Fire fighting |
- Every workplace must have means of raising the alarm
- Means of communicating the content of the fire plan
- means for fighting the fire
- safe means of escape
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7.4 Raising the alarm and escape |
- What options are available for raising the alarm on a construction site?
- what makes a means of escape suitable
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7.5 Other emergencies |
- Emergencies associated with client’s undertaking e.g chemical spill or bomb warning
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15:30 |
8.0 Hazardous substances (COSHH) |
- COSHH
- Five principles
- The assessment of health risk
- The control of exposure
- Monitoring of employee exposure
- Health surveillance
- Information, instruction and training
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- Hierarchy of COSHH assessment:
- eliminate
- substitute
- local exhaust ventilation system
- screening off
- reduce number of personnel
- reduce time of exposure
- PPE
- COSHH symbols:
- toxic or very toxic
- harmful
- corrosive
- irritant
- Harmful substances:
- Mineral oils(diesel):
- dermatitis
- oil acne
- cancer
- Chemicals (alkalis and chromates):
- dermatitis
- chrome ulceration
- Cement and lime
- chronic dermatitis
- Solvents and degreasers
- dissolve natural oils
- attack by bacteria
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- Protecting the worker:
- Use control measures
- Use protective clothing and equipment:
- must be in good condition and cleaned regularly
- overalls, gloves, hardhats, goggles/glasses
- Use barrier cream
- proper application, limited protection
- Use welfare facilitites
- Personal hygiene, soap and water.
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16:00 |
9.0 Group exercise
Risk assessment & method statements |
Conduct a simple case study to demonstrate the principals and content involved in the development of method statements associated with site-specific risk assessment. |
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16:45 |
10.00 Presentation skills
Delivering effective toolbox tasks |
- Preparation:
- Think about what preparation is required before the talk.
- Consider effective training aids you could use to enhance the talk.
- Reason for giving the talk:
- Target all on site who would benefit from the training.
- Get the attention of operatives as quickly as possible, be enthusiastic and give a reason that will personally affect the audience.
- Enhance your intention; make the audience more attentive by telling a dramatic story related to the subject.
- Formalise your talk by delivering in stages
- Decide on the key points that you wish to talk about.
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- Delivery of the talk; your attitude is important, so apply the following to your teaching technique:
- Be positive: Know your subject
- Be firm: get the message across; don’t get side-tracked.
- Be confident: look at people; involve them in a two-way conversation.
- Be serious: health and safety is a serious subject so your overall approach should be professional serious
- Questioning technique
- ask the question
- pause to give people time to think
- nominate who you want to answer
- confirm by further nomination
- Conclusion:
- Allow yourself time to read through the relevant talk and decide which points are relevant for the operatives at your workplace.
- A good beginning and a good end are important
- Confirm by question and answer technique
- Don’t assume that you have all the knowledge on the subject
- Don’t be tempted to read all the information from the talk – choose stages which are relevant to your site.
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17:30 |
End of Day One |
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08:30 |
11.0 CDM
11.1 Notification |
- Arrangements of the Regulations, parts 1 to 5
- Notification
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11.2 Dutyholders |
- Role of the client
- Role of the designer
- Role of the contractor
- Role of the principal contractor
- Role of the co-ordinator
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ConstructionSkills industry guidance for each duty holder: CDM 07/01 to 07/05 inclusive
GE 706
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11.3 Competence |
Competence relating to the duty holder roles |
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11.4 Part 4 |
- Part 4: Duties relating to health and safety on construction sites:
- Equivalent to the CHSW Regulations
- Applies to all construction sites
- Duties on every contractor and every other person who controls construction work
- Duties
- R25 Every Contractor or Principal Contractor must comply with Part 4
- Every person who controls the way construction is done must comply.
- Every person who works in construction has duties
- R26 Safe place of wokr
- R27 Good order / Security
- R28 Stability of structures
- R33 Reports of inspections (Refer also to Schedule 3)
- R34 Energy distribution
- R36 Traffic routes
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- R37 Vehicles
- R38 Prevention of risk from fire etc.
- R39 Emergency procedures
- R40 Emergency routes and exits
- R41 Fire detection/fighting
- R42 Fresh air
- R43 Temperature and weather protection
- R44 Lighting
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11.5 Welfare |
Summarise requirements of Schedule 2 regarding welfare arrangements |
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10:00 |
12.0 Working at height
12.1 legislation (WAH regs) |
- Work at Height Regulations
- Definitions
- Organisation and planning
- Hierarchy of control
- Avoidance of risk
- Risk assessment
- Hazards
- Work equipment selection
- Work equipment requirements:
- Guard-rails, toe-boards, barriers
- Working platforms
- Scaffold
- Mobile towers
- Ladders
- Stepladders
- Soft landing systems, nets, airbags etc.
- Competence
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11:30 |
13.0 Personal protective equipment |
- Definition of PPE
- Maintenance
- Compatibility
- Suitability
- Information, instruction and training
- Explain importance of provision of a demonstrable method of recognising supervisors on site e.g. distinctive coloured helmet or vest.
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12:00 |
14.0 Manual handling |
- Definition of manual handling?
- Manual handling operations regulations
- Avoid manual handling
- Assess operations
- Manual Handling assessment
- Task
- Individual
- Load
- Environment
- Information and training
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12:30 |
15.0 Accidents and first aid
15.1 Definition of accidents |
- Definition and common causes of accidents
- RIDDOR notification and reporting requirements for:
- death
- over three-day injury
- dangerous occurrence
- major specified injury
- notifiable diseases
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15.2 First Aid |
Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. |
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15.3 Data Protection |
Discuss application of Data Protection Act to accident reports/book entries |
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Lunch |
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14:00 |
16.0 Intervention skills and behaviour |
Discuss the principles of achieving good behaviours and demonstrateing leadership on construction sites.
Show and discuss the ConstructionSkills DVD ‘Shattered Lives’ (DVD070).
- Behavioural issues:
- Habits
- Building positive habits
- repeated exposure
- repitition and unconcious competence
- safety reminders
- motivation
- ABC
- Antecedents (20% effective)
- Behaviour
- Consequences (80% effective)
- Visual messages
- Lead by example
- First impressions
- 65% visual
- 25% auditory
- 10% kinaesthetic
- Repeat positive visual messages
- Verbal and non-verbal communication
- 7% words
- 38% tonality
- 55% body language
- Trance states
- Alpha sleep
- Automatic pilot
- Time v risk
- Choosing risk is most popular
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16.2 Intervention skills |
- Don’t walk by/consequences
- Reasons: social, moral, legal
- Worker engagement and involvement
- Be aware of personal drivers along with worker’s personal drivers: how this affects others.
- Positive/confident attitude – be firm, be confident, be serious.
- Discipline
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15:00 |
17.0 Intervention skills exercise |
Group flipchart work on typical/common instances on site and the thought process behind persuading individuals to think about the potential consequences when not acted upon. |
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15.45 |
18.0 Examination |
Multiple choice test |
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16.15 |
19.0 Course review/closure |
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16.30 |
End of day two |
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