Course Details/Schedule

Week 1

• Working at Height
• Introduction to working at height
• Employer’s responsibilities
• Employee’s responsibilities
• Planning work
• Risk assessment steps
• Using ladders and stepladders
• The lifting devices

Week 2

• Scaffolding
• Independent tied scaffold
• Putlog scaffold
• Birdcage scaffold
• Static tower
• Basic independent tied scaffold
• Scaffolds with prefabricated beams
• Protective fans, pavement gantry
• Loading bay, roof saddle scaffold
• Splay scaffold roof edge protection

Week 3

• Fire Safety and Evacuation
• Fire safety
• Fire Statistics – the scale of the problem
• The chemistry of combustion – How fires start & spread
• Actions in the event of fire
• What can go wrong – examples of failures in fire precautions?
• Fire risk assessment
• Classes of fire – Firefighting media

Week 4

• Fire Safety and Evacuation (cont.)
• The duties of a fire safety
• Evacuation procedures
• Video presentations
• Tour of the workplace
• The practical use of fire extinguishers
• The role of the emergency evacuation coordinator
• Emergencies other than fire such as bomb, terrorist and environmental 

Week 5

• Manual Handling
• What is manual handling?
• The risks and consequences of manual handling
• Legal requirements and responsibilities
• Assessing manual handling tasks and minimizing risk
• The dangers of patient handling and traditional lifting and moving techniques
• Safer patient handling alternatives
• Evaluation

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

• First Aid
• First Aid priorities
• Managing incidents
• Basic life support
• Casualty examination
• Circulation and bleeding
• Fractures
• Burns and scalds
• Common illnesses
• Heart attacks

Week 10

• Risk assessment
• Legislation and risk assessment
• Non legal rationale
• Inspection
• Training and development
• Contractor monitoring
• Safety statement development
• Stages of risk assessment
• Hazard identification

Week 11

• Risk assessment (cont.)
• Control description
• Organising company assessments
• Judgement of risks
• Control description
• Assessment formats
• Recording assessments
• Information sources

Week 12

• Permit to work
• The necessity for permits to work, including high risk activities
• The function and role of a permit to work within the overall risk control framework
• The typical contents of a permit to work
• The procedure for issuing a permit to work
• The cessation and termination of a permit
• The responsibilities of the issuer and receiver of the permit
• Potential difficulties and solutions with the permit to work system

Week 13

• Waste management and pollution minimization
• Introduction
• Evolution of solid waste management
• Sources of wastes
• Types of wastes
• Composition of municipal solid waste
• Physical, chemical, and biological properties of municipality solid waste
• Management and planning issues
• Hazardous wastes
• Solid wastes
• Waste management and  pollution minimization
• Waste handling
• Waste separation
• Waste storage

Week 14

• Waste management and pollution minimization (cont.)
• Waste processing at the source
• Thermal conversion technologies
• Biological and chemical conversion technologies
• Recycling of materials found in solid waste,
• Disposal of solid waste
• Closure of landfills