Hazard Identification and Awareness

Level:

Awareness

Target audience:

All relevant personnel.

Course Goal/Description:

This awareness course focuses on the importance of hazard identification within the risk assessment process. It identifies the common industry hazards and describes the steps involved, and the factors that should be considered, in the hazard identification process.

Learning Objectives:

LO1 Identify the steps involved in risk assessment

LO2 Define key terminology

LO3 Describe hazard identification and its purpose

LO4 Identify the energy sources that can be used to help identify hazards

LO5 Identify common industry hazards

LO6 Recognise the hazards associated with SIMOPs

LO7 Outline the differences between occupational hazards and major accident hazards

LO8 Identify the role of human factors in causing accidents

LO9 Describe the steps involved in hazard identification

LO10 Outline the requirements for risk assessment and the implementation of control measures to reduce the risk to ALARP

LO11 Recognise the importance of dynamic risk assessment and Stop Work Authority