Safety Officer Course - Occupational Health and Safety is an area that can be applied in various fields of work. Before a person can practice as a safety officer, several stages have to be passed before such a course, interview and obtain a certificate from the authorities involved as safety officer.
Here is the content of the program or topics covered in the course that must be attended before qualifying for interviews as Safety Officer :
- Historical perspective
- Incident prevention
- IT in OSH
- Incident investigation and corrective action
- Management review
- first aid
- Documentation
- OSH-management system
- Assessment and risk management
- OSH program
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Policy - organization and arrangements
- OSH promotion, training and communication
- Performance measurement and monitoring
- Procurement and contractor management
- Personal protective equipment
- Auditing
2. Occupational Safety and Health Legislation
- Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994
- OSH (safety and health officer) regulations 1997
- OSH (classification,packaging and labelling of hazardous' chemicals) regulations 1997
- OSH (use and standards of exposure of chemical hazardous to health) regulation 2000
- Health regulations under Factories and Machinery Act 1967
- Factories and Machinery Act 1967
- Safety regulations under Factories and Machinery Act 1967
- OSH ( control of industrial major accident) regulations 1997
- OSH (notification of accidents, dangerous occurrence,occupational poisoning and occupational diseases) regulations
- Petroleum, (safety measures) Act 1984 & Gas Supply Act 1993
- OSH (safety and health committee) regulations 1996
- Introduction & overview of other related, legislation & codes of practices
- Case study
3. Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
- Introduction and fundamentals of toxicology
- Occupational health standard
- Occupational and psychological stress
- Shift work
- Biological hazard
- Biological monitoring and medical surveillance
- Physical hazards: noise, radiation, vibration, pressurised
- Environment, thermal stress
- Mental workload
- Pressurised equipment
- Working in confined space
- Machinery hazard
- Chemical hazard
- Chemical hazard management
- Ventilation
- Indoor air quality
- Classification, packaging and labelling
- Chemical health risk assessment
- Chemical monitoring
- Chemical safety data sheet
- Overview and basic principles of industrial hygiene
- Ergonomic
- Ergonomic risk factor
4. Occupational Safety
- Mechanical handling
- Manual handling
- Electric safety
- Office safety
- Housekeeping and physical arrangement
- Maintenance of machine guards & tools
- General area fencing
- Safe machine operation
- Safe guarding of machinery
- Safe of hand tools & portable power tools
- Welding safety
- Fire safety
- Construction safety
- Transport safety defensive driving (forklift)
