HSE Academy

Industrial Safety, Occupational Health and Safety Culture

Official Courses

HSE-301 | Hazardous Energy Tagging/Lockout

HSE-302 | Excavation Safety

HSE-303 | Hot Work Safety

HSE-304 | Work at Height Safety

HSE-305 | Construction Safety

HSE-306 | Risk Assessment in Occupational Safety / Application of ISO 31000 in Occupational Safety

Seminars and Custom Programs (on request)

Risk Assessment in Occupational Safety Courses:

1. Risk Assessment in Occupational Safety

Basic course on risk assessment in occupational safety. The course covers accident risk management in general understanding of the process. How to identify risks at work sites. "What if?" as the main method for on-site risk identification. "Static" and "dynamic" risk assessments. Legislative requirements regarding risk assessment. (1 day).

2. Risk Assessment through Risk Factor Identification.

Typically, risk factor analysis is not conducted in OS, trees are not used (sometimes bow-tie method is used), which does not allow effective risk management and, as a rule, all risk assessment comes down to identifying hazards and minimizing them "on-site" without searching for the most significant factors affecting risks. The course examines methods for breaking down risks into components, which allows for more detailed risk management. Similar to incident investigation, root causes of possible risk realization are found. Acting on the most probable root cause allows for the most effective risk management. The course covers methods: Bow-tie, event trees and fault trees (2 days).

3. Considering "Human Factor" in Risk Assessment

In most companies, when assessing accident risks, the possibility of errors or violations by personnel is not considered. Assessed risks of work performed by trained and motivated personnel do not differ from risks of work performed by poorly trained and unmotivated personnel. Risk assessment does not consider the possibility of human error, assuming that training completely eliminates the possibility of error. At the same time, most accidents occur precisely due to personnel errors or violations. The course is aimed at how to consider the possibility of worker error or violation when assessing risks and planning safety measures for work execution. (1 day + preferably completing the "Risk Assessment through Risk Factor Identification" course).

4. Matrix Risk Assessment in Occupational Safety

Typically, risk matrices in OS are built without understanding the principles of their construction, which subsequently makes their use formal and ineffective. The course examines the principles of risk matrix construction and their use in occupational safety. Understanding matrix construction allows adapting matrices according to enterprise specifics, properly ranking risks, which in turn allows effective risk minimization. (1 day + preferably completing the "Risk Assessment through Risk Factor Identification" course).

5. Quantitative Risk Assessment in Occupational Safety

Quantitative assessment is mainly not used in OS. However, such assessment can be no more complex than the usual matrix assessment, but more effective. The course examines methods for calculating risk in quantitative terms as applied to occupational safety, as well as quantitative calculation of risk minimization measure effectiveness. (1 day + preferably completing the "Risk Assessment through Risk Factor Identification" course).

6. Application of ISO 31000 in Occupational Safety

The course examines how to organize accident and major accident risk management in accordance with ISO 31000 standard. Modern approach to risk management based on the updated ISO 31000 standard will allow effective risk management with minimal documentation. Annual compilation of multi-page registers that nobody needs will no longer be required. (1 day).

7. Dynamic Risk Assessment

Practical course for workers aimed at finding hazards and assessing risks at the workplace immediately before or during work. (1 day).

Safety Culture and Safety Leadership Courses:

1. Safety Culture – as a Path to Reducing Injuries

Basic course on safety culture. The course examines what safety culture is, how safety culture relates to corporate culture. What elements it is built on, how to assess your safety culture level. Ways to develop safety culture. (1 day).

2. Safety Leadership

Basic course on safety leadership. The course examines the role of leaders in occupational safety matters, what tools a leader uses, how to improve safety communications between employees at different levels and reduce misunderstandings, how to motivate workers for safe behavior, how to break the value conflict between "safety" and "production efficiency". (1 day + preferably completing "Risk Assessment in Occupational Safety" + "Safety Culture – as a Path to Reducing Injuries" courses).

3. Behavioral Audit as a Basic Tool for Safety Leaders

The course examines one of the main tools of a safety leader – Behavioral Audit. How to make audits effective, not formal. How to ensure you are heard and understood and how to hear the worker yourself. How to motivate for safety during behavioral audits. (0.5 day + preferably completing the "Safety Leadership" course).

4. Investigation of Accidents and Potentially Dangerous Incidents

Investigation is one of the main tools for both safety leaders and the overall occupational safety management system and accident risk management. Despite the fact that in most companies the stated task of investigation is finding the root cause, not the guilty party, investigation is still aimed at finding the guilty party. Only guilt is masked by insufficient training, risk underestimation, etc., after which the worker is sent for retraining. For some reason, it is believed that if a method did not work the first time, the same method will definitely work the second or third time. Meanwhile, the true root cause of why training was insufficient or why the worker underestimated risks remains unattended, so situations repeat in the future. The course aims to help participants understand how to find the root cause of an incident in the occupational safety management system and how to change the system so that such cases do not repeat in the future. (0.5 day if "Risk Assessment through Risk Factor Identification" course was completed) (1.5 days without completing the risk assessment course).