Concepts in Safety Management

This course provides an overview of the principles of safety management including a discussion of common occupational hazards, human factors affecting safety in the workplace, assessment of risk and the design of systems to manage them.
The course provides opportunities for participants to learn from safety practioners from a broad range of industries and observe and evaluate hazards and risk in actual workplace settings.

At the end of this course the participants should:

Understand the principles and theories of accident causation;
Understand common workplace hazards and be able to assess risk;
Be conversant with key regulated requirements for workplace safety in Ontario;
Be able to apply various approaches to safety management;
Appreciate the importance of assurance and understand approaches to auditing; and
Through interactive sessions and site visits be able to apply this knowledge in the workplace setting.