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Manual Handling Training.

Posted on March 23, 2012 by oasysadmin

What is Manual Handling?

Manual handling is any activity involving the use of muscular force (or effort) to lift, move, push, pull, carry, hold or restrain any object, including a person or animal. It covers more than lifting heavy weights and affects more than the back.

Injuries often occur due to wear and tear, accumulated from frequent periods of manual handling activity that stress the body, such as repetitive work or heavy lifting. The effects of these injuries often become more disabling as workers become older.

Manual handling is the most common cause of accidents and injuries…

The pie chart shows the pattern for over-three-day injuries reported in 2001/02.

More than a third of all over-three-day injuries reported each year to HSE and local authorities are caused by manual handling - the transporting or supporting of loads by hand or by bodily force.

What you need to do:

Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations require employers and employees to work together to manage manual handling risks. The legislation places duties on both employers and employees. As the employer has greater control over the way in which the work is done, they also have a greater share of the responsibility for managing the risk. The Manual Handling legislation requires employers and employees to work together to identify and assess the risk of injury arising from manual handling activities at work.

Training:

Training teaches you all you need to know about safe Manual Handling, including lifting techniques, LITE and why safe Manual Handling is so important to your everyday health.

Courses:

Are your staff as safe as you think they are? It is recommend that anyone involved in Manual Handling attend training. Oasys TSS offer a one-day course- Manual Handling Awareness training course full-day programme.

This course is suitable for front line managers and operatives who require a general knowledge of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations and the manual handling risk assessment process.
The course includes how musculoskeletal injuries develop and what the organisation and individuals can do to prevent injuries associated with manual handling.
The course will look at ways that Manual Handling can be avoided or minimised and introduce the delegates to the principles of safer movement patterns.

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Only 5 places left on our London IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course

Posted on March 14, 2012 by oasysadmin

Only 5 places left on our London IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course Book now to avoid disappointment!

Details are…

Course: IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course – London

Dates: Tuesday 17^th – Friday 20^th April 2012

Later dates: Monday 10^th – Thursday 13^th December 2012

Venue: The Union Jack Club and Hotel, Sandwell Street, London, SE1 8UJ, UK (opposite Waterloo Station)

Fees: £745.00 net per delegate Price includes lunch, comprehensive course documentation, IOSH examination and project assessment fee

The Union Jack Club offer delegates single en suite accommodation @ £61.50 per night (subject to availability), plus Full English breakfast @ £8.50 – £8 only if you pay on arrival, parking @ £15.00 per 24 hours to residents (which must be pre-booked). These costs may vary.

Course: IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course – Exeter

Dates: Monday 23^rd – Thursday 26^th April 2012

Venue: WestPoint Exhibition Arena, Exeter, EX5 1DJ

Fee: £595.00 net per delegate Price includes lunch, comprehensive course documentation, IOSH examination and project assessment fee

There are plans for a November 2012 NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Safety & Health course in partnership with ExCeL London. The 12 day course will run up to the December national exams. The dates and costs have yet to be finalised. Please let Mags know if you would like to register your interest on marg@oasystss.co.uk

Event Safety training courses

Posted on March 8, 2012 by oasysadmin

Event safety and training

In addition to the four day IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition and Event Industry training course, oasys specialise in offering short training packages tailored for the events industry.

However, the IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition and Event Industry training course remains our most popular training course. The 4 day training course covers all the essential topics that are necessary to enable the delegates to manage their events safely in a more proactive way. The IOSH Managing Safely in Exhibition and Events Industry course certificate is a must have qualification if you want to be taken seriously in the exhibition and events industry.

Find below a number of typical Crowd Management issues that would need to be considered and addressed at an event…

The coming together of several pedestrian routes into one area or space.
Pinch points, physical barriers, dead ends or locked gates.
Slippery, uneven, or poorly maintained floors or steps.
Steep gradients or slopes aggravated by dangerous or aggressive behaviour, such as running down steep slopes.
Large pedestrian flows mixing with animals or moving vehicles sharing the same route as pedestrians.
Pedestrian flows which are obstructed by queues or gathering crowds, typically failure of equipment, such as turnstiles etc.
A reverse or cross flow of pedestrian traffic, as people cut through the crowd to get to other areas, such as toilets, other facilities, or attractions.
Crushing between people or crushing against fixed structures, such as barrier, trampling underfoot, surging, swaying, or rushing, people being pushed against objects, such as unguarded, hot cooking equipment on a food stall etc.
Disabled people getting trapped, e.g. wheelchair users in a crowd
Climbing on equipment or structures, collapse of a structure, or collapse of a fence or barrier, this falls onto the crowd
Objects, such as stalls, that obstruct movement and cause congestion during busy periods
Sources of fire, such as cooking equipment, careless use of spotlights, candles, or other ignition sources.

Special offer Discounted in-house Health and Safety training courses

Posted on March 7, 2012 by oasysadmin

Special offer

Discounted in-house Health and Safety training courses

Beat the squeeze and make a fantastic saving on in-house health and safety training courses.

oasys are offering a discounted daily training fee of £495.00 per day for all UK based in house courses booked to take place prior to the 13^th April 2012.

This course fee is for up to 12 – 15 delegates, depending on type of course booked.

All of our courses can be tailored and delivered to meet your specific and individual requirements.

The above in-house discounted health and safety training fee does not include any venue fees, costs associated with travel, such as mileage, parking, congestion fees, flights, and (if required) tutors subsistence / food, accommodation.

Book now to avoid disappointment by contacting Mags on marg@oasystss.co.uk, quoting 4/12offer

Courses include…

Accident / Incident Investigation
Asbestos Awareness
Auditing for Safety
BSC Awards Level 2 Certificate in Supervising Staff
Safely
Confined Space Awareness Training
The Construction (Design & Management)
Regulations
Controlling Contractors
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (CoSHH)
Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Assessor
Environmental Management
Exhibition & Event Health & Safety
Awareness
Fire Safety Risk Assessment Training
Hazard & Operability Studies (HAZOP)
Introduction to Health & Safety Management
IOSH Managing Safely
IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition and Events
Industry
Manual Handling Awareness
Manual Handling Instructors & Assessors
Manual Handling Instructors & Assessors for the
Care Industry People Handling
NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational
Safety and Health
Noise Assessment / Noise at Work
Office Safety
Permits to Work
Presentation Skills
Risk Assessment 1 & 2 day Workshops
Risk Assessment & Method Statement Preparation
Risk Assessment Workshops / Job Safety Analysis
Risk Assessment during Exhibition / Event Build-up
& Break-down
Safety Awareness for Employees
Safety Awareness for Managers
Safety Awareness for Directors
Safety Awareness for Senior Executives
Safety Awareness in the Exhibition & Events
Industry
Safety Representatives and Safety Committees
(Safety Improvement Groups)
Safety Planning for Exhibitions & Events
Supply of Machinery and CE Marking
Training the Trainer
Working at Height

In house health and safety training courses IOSH Managing Safely courses, or tailored / bespoke health and safety training courses

Posted on February 11, 2012 by oasysadmin

In house health and safety training courses – IOSH Managing Safely courses, or tailored / bespoke health and safety training courses.

oasys offers both the standard / generic IOSH Managing Safely training course, or the IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition and Events Industry training course in company, throughout the UK and overseas.

For instance, our IOSH accredited health and safety training course tutor, Dave Wilson is off to Scotland again next week, working with the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh; the delegates who attended the last Scottish Parliament IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition and Events Industry training course worked really hard and responded well to the training, this new cohort of delegates will have to work hard to compete.

Once again the Scottish Parliament have chosen The IOSH Managing Safely for Exhibition & Events course, which is ideal for their events team.

The team will be able to review and discuss their own event health and safety issues, and how to resolve them in a sensible way; they will develop their knowledge, skill and understanding to the extent that is necessary to be able to manage health and safety effectively using active and reactive measures.

The principle reason organisations engage with health and safety and loss control is asset care. The delegates on this IOSH Managing Safely for Exhibition & Events course will:

Find out about the humanitarian cost of accidents and ill health within the workplace,
Learn about the financial cost of accidents to an organisation,
Understand the legal implications of a serious accident in the workplace.

In another session, the delegates will:

Learn about the impact of health and safety law on business, understand the duty of reasonable care the legal standard of reasonably practicable,
Learn to make sensible risk management decisions based on knowledge.
Understand how to conduct a risk assessment and how to focus on significant risk; they will be able to follow the hierarchy of control to make sure the risk assessments are suitable and sufficient.

The course looks at a range of common hazards, including the impact of human behaviours and ergonomics, including:

The real reasons why people make mistakes
Simple solutions to make work more comfortable ,
Understanding that safe working practices should be easier to perform and therefore are likely to be more efficient long- term.

The training course will also look at occupational ill health associated with the use of harmful substances. Course delegates will:

Find out about the control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH),
Learn how to recognise the potential danger from hazardous substances and materials and how to initiate some simple solutions to prevent danger.
Understand the requirement for a suitable and sufficient assessment of risk when using harmful products, substances or materials.

Other topics included in this course are: Accident Investigation and Reporting, Joint Consultation, the Role of Management, Monitoring Health & Safety Performance, dealing with and Controlling Contractors, Noise, Work Equipment & Transport, it will be a full on few days for them.

On conclusion of the course, the delegates will be tested regarding their knowledge with a small written assessment. In addition, they will be required to submit a risk assessment from their own workplace, their success on the course is determined by their cumulative results.

If interested in the IOSH Managing Safely training course, or the IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition and Events Industry training course as in-company training courses, please contact Mags on marg@oasystss.co.uk

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IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course in London

Posted on February 10, 2012 by oasysadmin

IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course in London

Dates: Tuesday 17^th – Friday 20^th April 2012

Venue: The Union Jack Club and Hotel, Sandell Street, London, SE1 8UJ, UK (opposite Waterloo Station)

Fees: £745.00 net per delegate (price includes lunch, comprehensive course documentation, IOSH examination and project assessment fee)

For further information, contact Mags on marg@oasystss.co.uk

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Coping with Pressure

Posted on January 31, 2012 by oasysadmin

Coping with Pressure

Stress is frequently criticised as being either ‘all in the mind’ or something employees should automaticallyencounter and tolerate as part of their job.
It is generally agreed that there is no such thing as a job without pressures. Every job has its own tasks, responsibilitiesand deadlines, and to some extent these are an unavoidable part of life.

A distinction should be made between positive or ‘beneficial’ stress, and negative or ‘harmful’ stress.

Positive stress implies tasks and challenges at work that serve to motivate and to energise. This type of stress means that employees go home at night feeling pleasantly tired, but with a feeling of achievement, or ‘job satisfaction’.

The reaction people have to excessive work pressures can result in harmful stress, which is sometimes referred to as distress. People’s ability to cope with pressure is not limitless, and when the demands placed on employees exceed their abilities to cope, stress can be the result. Pressure becomes a problem.

It should be stressed that, where pressures are intense, and continue over a period of time, the effects of harmful stress can be severe. Such conditions can lead to serious health problems, and research into illnesses associated with stress is on-going.

The SHE believe for some organisations the way to deal with work related stress is to diagnose, treat and rehabilitate people who experience it. For others, it is economically and morally preferable to assess and repair the failed work system or organisation. This action reduces the risk of future failure and the likelihood of future work-related ill-health. This approach focuses attention on the antecedents of work related stress in the design and management of work – but recognises that interventions at the individual level have a part to play.

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The Lofstedt Report

Posted on January 19, 2012 by oasysadmin

Professor Lofstedt was appointed by the Employment Minister Chris Grayling to carryout an independent review of Health and Safety legislation and the burden it represents to business.

Professor Lofstedt is the Director of the Kings Centre for Risk Management at Kings College London. He has a number of recommendations aimed at reducing the burden of unnecessary regulation.

The government has accepted his recommendations, the HSE and IOSH have responded positively to the report.

View the report at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/health-and-safety

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The introduction of “The Independent Regulatory Challenge Panel”

Posted on January 11, 2012 by oasysadmin

The Independent Regulatory Challenge Panel has recently been introduced. It has been set up to look into complaints regarding advice given by HSE or LA inspectors about health and safety which you think is incorrect or goes beyond what is required to control the risk adequately.

The panel will consist of independent members who will have the competence and experience to assess advice that has been given on regulatory matters.

Before you raise an issue with the panel, you should have first tried to resolve the matter with the relevant HSE or LA inspector.

For further information visit http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/challenge-panel.htm

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We still have places available on the London IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry Refresher course (formerly known as “Re-certification course”)

Posted on November 18, 2011 by oasysadmin

Course details: IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry REFRESHER training course

Dates Friday 2^ndDecember 2011

Venue: The Union Jack Club and Hotel, Sandell Street, London, SE1 8UJ, UK (opposite Waterloo Station)

Fee: £295.00 net per delegate Price includes lunch, comprehensive course documentation, IOSH examination, project assessment fee and certification

The Union Jack Club offer delegates single en suite accommodation

Please note: The course is open to delegates who attended and successfully passed an IOSH Managing Safety in the Exhibition & Event Industry course within the last 3 years. Delegates whose certificates are more than three years old please call oasys to discuss, prior to booking on the course. We would seek the advice of IOSH regarding their ability to certificate upon completion of the course.

It is well recognised by all parties that time can erode both knowledge and skill. Designed to address this, the IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry Refresher training course acquaints delegates with the significant changes to health and safety practice, guidance, legislation and standards which have occurred since their original course.

The course concludes with a short 30-minute IOSH examination.

The course revisits how to manage a range of common hazards, by applying common principles and includes methods to identify different types of human failures
including simple solutions to reduce these incidents.

Course outline

An Introduction to Managing Safely in Exhibitions & Events

Risk Assessment & Common Hazards

Evaluating results and selecting control strategies

Health & Safety Management

Accident Causation & Reactive Monitoring

Active Monitoring

On conclusion of the course delegates will have a refreshed and updated understanding of the legal requirements for continued success with health and Safety Management.

There is a multi-choice assessment at the end of the course, which delegate must pass in order to achieve re-certification.

For further information contact Mags on marg@oasystss.co.uk

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Manual Handling Training.

What is Manual Handling?

Manual handling is the most common cause of accidents and injuries…

What you need to do:

Training:

Courses:

Only 5 places left on our London IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course

Event Safety training courses

Special offer Discounted in-house Health and Safety training courses

In house health and safety training courses IOSH Managing Safely courses, or tailored / bespoke health and safety training courses

IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course in London

Coping with Pressure

The Lofstedt Report

The introduction of “The Independent Regulatory Challenge Panel”

We still have places available on the London IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry Refresher course (formerly known as “Re-certification course”)

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