Course Objective:

·         Understand why risk assessments are necessary for maintaining and improving standards of health and safety at work.

·         Define hazard and risk.

·         Define risk assessment.

·         Define accident, near miss, injury only, and damage only accidents.

·         Define and understand the steps to the risk assessment.

·         Define the risk assessment matrix.

·         Define the hierarchy of controls.

·         Identify the roles and responsibilities of the employer towards risk assessment.

·         Identify the roles and responsibilities of the employee towards risk assessment.

·         The role of risk assessment to decrease accidents of ill health.

·         The role of risk assessment to increase safety culture and awareness.