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Health and Safety: Risk Assessment
| Description | Theme: Personal Effectiveness Category: Health, Safety, Fire and Environment About this course: This course is designed to develop ability and practical confidence by equipping you with the knowledge and skills you need to complete risk assessments effectively. There is a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical sessions.
Learning outcomes: As a result of attending this course, you will be able to:. - Follow the essential steps to complete risk assessments in order to protect people from harm. - Ensure that faculties and services reduce risks to as low as reasonably practicable. - Identify hazards and produce a thorough risk assessment that is appropriate to your workplace activities. - Correct issues found, recommend appropriate action and record actions taken.
Who should attend this course: This course is for staff that are required to complete risk assessments and/or are involved in the risk assessment process within their faculty or service.
Presenter(s): Trained member of the Health & Safety Team.
What previous participants have said about the course: "The most valuable thing I learned was what a risk assessment is and what its purpose is in the workplace". "Understanding the main principles of identifying a hazard and its consequential risk helped clarify the process of writing a risk assessment". "I now know the general ideas behind risk assessment and the importance of staying grounded". "This was a really good session, very helpful and full of useful things to think about".
Before the course: Please review the Health, Safety & Wellbeing webpage and read the Safety Policy (https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/ucs/healthandsafety/). Please also become familiar with the subject specific standards and the supporting documentation within each standard (https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/sites/HealthandSafetyHub/SitePages/Risk-Assessments.aspx). Resources: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/staff/wellbeing/safety/meettheteam/ http://www.exeter.ac.uk/staff/wellbeing/safety/ Learning provider: This course is administered by People Development; please e-mail peopledevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for any queries. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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