TUC Education Short Courses For USRs

Risk assessment is the theme for European Health and Safety week 2008. TUC Education has refreshed course materials together with TUC published guidance for safety reps on risk assessment.

TUC Education will be running a number of courses during the autumn term, details are below.

Course aims

This course will help trade union health and safety reps:

• identify the legal requirements concerning risk assessment
• understand the risk assessment process
• relate risk assessment to strategies for improving health and safety at work

Course programme

The course is planned to run over 2 or 3 days. Below is a sample 3-day programme:

Day 1

• introduction and aims
• what is risk assessment?
• the law and risk assessment - regulations
• attitudes to risk assessment
• workplace hazard mapping and priorities

Day 2

• HSE Five Steps to risk assessment
• practising risk assessments
• evaluating different methods of risk assessment
• evaluating risk assessment procedures
• analysing workplace risk assessments

Day 3

• assessing the impact of risk assessment
• policies for risk assessment
• trade union strategy, action planning
• learning opportunities
• course evaluation

Full course details can be found on the TUC website here

Source: TUC

Designed, Hosted and Maintained by Union Safety Services