Special offer March 2012 in-house Health and Safety training courses

Posted on February 13, 2012 by oasysadmin

Special offer – March 2012 in-house Health and Safety training courses

Beat the squeeze and make a fantastic saving on March 2012 in-house health and safety training courses.

oasys are offering a discounted daily training fee of £500.00 per day for all March 2012 UK training courses held at client premises. 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 3/12offer

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
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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 17th – Friday 20th 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 2nd December 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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IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry training course

Posted on November 17, 2011 by oasysadmin

We only have three places remaining on our December IOSH Managing Safely in the Exhibition & Events Industry course – grab your place now before all places are sold…

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

Dates: Monday 5th – Thursday 8th December 2011  / Tuesday 17th – Friday 20th 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

The Union Jack Club offer delegates single en suite accommodation @ £61.50 per night (subject to availability), plus English breakfast @ £6.95, parking @ £15.00 per 24 hours to residents (which must be pre-booked). These costs may vary.

Accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the Managing Safely in the Exhibition and Event Industry course is a well-recognised and respected programme of training.

This course is ideal for floor managers, duty managers, organisers and others with operational responsibility, or safety input for exhibitions/events/shows. Part-time health and safety staff, safety representatives and graduates have also found it to be invaluable in providing essential skills for putting health and safety theory into practice.

Course outline

Health & safety Legislation

Crowd Dynamics

Safety Committees and Joint Consultation

Hazard Identification and Control

Surveys and inspections

Accident Reporting and Recording

Communication of Health and Safety

Risk Assessment theory and practice

Action Plans for Return to Work

Floor Planning

On conclusion of the course delegates will have improved knowledge and understanding of health and safety management, and will be able to manage their organisational health and safety issues in a more proactive and practical way.

The programme includes overnight project work and concludes with a multi-choice examination. Delegates are required to complete a workplace-based project, which forms part of the overall assessment and must be returned to us within 14 days. A minimum pass rate of 70% is required for certification. An IOSH Managing Safely certificate is awarded to all those who attend the course and successfully complete the written and practical assessments.

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

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Slips Trips & Falls

Posted on November 16, 2011 by oasysadmin

Slips trips and falls have traditionally been responsible for over a third of workplace accidents, some result in amusing or embarrassing moments, many result in significant injury, the statistics within organisations are worthy of investigation to determine the underlying causation.

Almost all slips happen when floors are wet or dirty (for example contaminated with water, oil, food debris, dust etc).

If the floor has a smooth surface (for example the surfaces of standard vinyl, glazed ceramic tiles, varnished wood and some metal floors are all often very smooth) in these circumstances even a tiny amount of contamination can present a significant slip problem.

Trips generally take place on damaged, uneven and badly laid floors or because obstacles have been left where people least expect to find them.

Falls from height are usually caused by poor management control rather than equipment failure.

The most common factors involve failure to:

  • Recognise a problem associated with working at height;
  • Provide a safe or safer way to do the work
  • Ensure that safe systems of work are actually followed;
  • Provide adequate information, instruction, training or supervision;
  • Use appropriate equipment; and
  • Provide safe equipment.

Simple solutions:

For slips

For trips

  • A place for everything, everything in its place good housekeeping inspection schedules

For falls

Our key messages to duty holders are:

  • Follow the risk assessments you have carried out for work at height activities and make sure all work at height is planned, organised and carried out by competent persons;
  • Follow the hierarchy for managing risks from work at height – take steps to avoid, prevent or reduce risks; and
  • Choose the right work equipment and select collective measures to prevent falls (such as guardrails and working platforms) before other measures which may only mitigate the distance and consequences of a fall (such as nets or airbags) or which may only provide personal protection from a fall.
    http://www.hse.gov.uk/falls/risks.htm
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The Cost of Accidents and Poor Loss Control

Posted on November 3, 2011 by oasysadmin

Whilst the author would acknowledge that accidents sometimes happen without rhyme or reason, there remains a huge body of evidence from the enforcement bodies and others that a large proportion of accidents, which occur within the workplace, are foreseeable; therefore, by definition those same accidents are avoidable.

There are a number of very good reasons why businesses should pursue an effective accident or loss control programme. However before the business can improve, the management of the business needs to recognise and commit to two fundamental principles.
One: Safeguarding the assets of the business is an essential management activity.
Two: The prevention of loss is as important to the business as the maximisation of profit.

Humanitarian Costs: There will be a humanitarian cost associated with accidents and ill health in the form of pain and suffering to victims, hardship for families, low morale and introspection from witnesses and other staff.

Economic loss: Sometimes referred to as the secret syphon, economic losses associated with accidents are many and varied, typically insured costs v un-insured costs, a rise in insurance premiums, downtime for production, management time involved with necessary investigations associated with any accident, plant, equipment and machinery damage, damage to buildings etc.

Legal Costs:  The legal costs associated with accidents are often overlooked: civil claims for compensation, loss of directorships, fines, personal and organisational including the possibility of prison sentences for controlling minds, if the evidence demonstrates gross negligence then a charge of “Corporate Manslaughter” may be considered.

See the following link http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg355.pdf

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