IOSH – INTERNATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATE

UNIT IGC - 1Management of Health and Safety

ELEMENT 1

Foundation of health and safety

1.1    the scope and nature of health and safety

1.2    reasons for maintaining and promoting for health and safety

1.3    role of national government and international standards

ELEMENT 2

Health and safety management system policy

1.1   2.1 key element of health and safety management system

1.1   2.2 purpose and importance of setting policy for health and safety

1.1   2.3 key feature and key elements for health and safety

ELEMENT 3

Health and safety management system organizing

3.11.1    organizational health and safety role and responsibilities

3.2 1.1   the concept and significance of health and safety cultures

3.31.1    factor influencing on health and safety Beauvoir

3.41.1    improving health and safety behavior

3.51.1    emergency procedure

3.61.1    requirements of effective provision of first aid in the workplace

ELEMENT 4

Health and safety management system planning

4.1    importance of plaining

4.2    principle of practice and risk assessment

4.3   general principle of control and basic hierarchy of control measures

4.4   source of health and safety information

4,5    development of safe system of work

4.6   the role and function of permit to work system

ELEMENT 5

Health and safety management system measuring performance audit and review

5.1    active and reactive monitoring

5,2    health and safety auditing

5.3   investigating incident

5,4    reporting and recording of incident

5.5    review of health and safety performance

UNIT GC - 2Controlling Workplace Hazards

ELEMENT 1

Workplace hazard and risk control

1.1    health welfare and work environment requirement

1.2    violence at work

1.3    substance misuse at work

1.4    movement of people

1.5    general construction hazard and risk control

1.6    work at hight

1.7    excavation

ELEMENT 2

Transportation hazard and risk control

2.1    safe movement of vehicle in the work place

2.2    driving at work

ELEMENT 3

Musculoskelatel hazard and risk control

3.1    work related upper lump disorder

3.2    manual handling hazard risk and control measures

3.3    manually handling load handling equipment

3.4    mechanically operated load handling equipment

ELEMENT 4

Work equipment hazard and risk control

4.1    general principle for selection use and maintenance of work equipment

4.2     hazard and control of hand held tool

4.3    machinery hazard

4,4    control measures to reduce the risk from machinery hazard

ELEMENT 5

Electrical safety

5.1    principle of hazard and risk control associated with use of electricity in the workplace

5.2    control measures

ELEMENT 6

Fire safety

6.1    fire initiation classification and spread

6.2    fire risk assessment

6.3    fire prevention and prevention of fire spread

6.4    fire alarm and fire fighting equipment

6.5    evacuation of work place

ELEMENT 7

Chemical and biological hazard and risk control

7.1     form of classification and health risk from hazardous substance

7.2     assessment of health risk

7.3     workplace exposure limit

7.4     control measure

7,5     specific agent

7.6    safe handling and storage of waste

ELEMENT 8

Physical physiological health hazard and risk control

8.1     Noise

8,2     Vibration

8.3     Radiation

8.4     Stress

UNIT GC - 3Health & SafetyPractical Application

PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT

Purpose of Practical Assessment:

• To carry out a Risk Assessment of work place.
• To give advice to management on how to rectify these issues that have been identified.

In total, identify and write down:

• 23 Points of hazardous and unsafe practices
• 3 Points of good practices

Set priority for each hazard (use your judgment) • High• Medium• Low Management ReportConsists of Four parts:

• Introduction
• Summary
• Observations
• Conclusion

1)    Introduction State the purpose of the report.

What are you identifying
Where, when and what

2)    Summarize Summarize the findings

3)    8.1     ObservationsThis is to be written in 4 parts:

• Findings that have been Identified.
• Recommendations for Rectification.
• Costs of these Rectifications.
• Legal guidelines that need to be satisfied.

MAIN FINDINGS: Select 5 of the highest risk / hazards from items in the observation sheets and elaborate on them.

4)    Conclusion:

Here you need to convince Management to take action using the arguments of Moral, Legal and Financial to justify your recommendations.