

HIRA 6 - Complete a Hazard Identification Exercise
Your guide to planning and executing a Hazard Identification Exercise
Self paced
tutorial
ARE YOU SAFE? |
OUR MISSION
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Hazard Identification Exercise Course Profile This course leads you to design and implement a Hazard Identification Exercise for your business. The Hazard Identification Exercise helps you to uncover all the hazards your business are exposed to. Dynamically presented Unequalled in approach Unparalleled in content Researched and tested over three year period Founded on thirty years’ experience Serves ideally as Induction/Review Training Programme or Initial Safety Training Programme |
What will you get out of this course? 1. You will be able to design and implement a Hazard Identification exercise for your business. 2. You will be able to use various Hazard Identification methods. 3. You will know where to look to expose all hazards, including labour, material, equipment and the environment 4. You will be understand which factors may increase or reduce the risk of the hazards that threaten your business. |
Your job opportunity in Safety Management Internationally the demand for a safe working environment and improved safety results increases continually. Safety requirements are getting stricter every day. It requires more professionals and more professionalism. Competing in the international market for customers requires competing in safety. It also means more career opportunities for more competitive safety practitioners. |
Value of this course to your career: Foster problem solving skills Develops critical thinking Facilitates understanding Drives application |
TRENDS IN SAFETY WILL INCREASE JOB OPPORTUNITIES |
Trends in safety identified in various recent articles indicate growth in job opportunities in Safety Management Increased fines related to workplace safety Increased emergence of safety departments Demand for improved safety technology Mandatory safety training Increased employee awareness |
New requirements of Safety Practitioners demand problem solving skills |
“Safety Professionals must be the providers of solutions and the facilitators of safe work performance. The days of being the ones who simply identify problems for others to resolve are quickly disappearing” – Canadian Occupational Safety – The Safety Standard |
Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Series The full learning adventure It consists of a series of twelve individual but connected courses that concludes the basis of your full Health and Safety Program: HIRA 1: The Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Process HIRA 2: Do an Initial Safety Inspection HIRA 3: Identify Exposure Units HIRA 4: Complete a Baseline Risk Assessment HIRA 5: Compile a Health and Safety Policy HIRA 6: Complete a Hazard Identification Exercise HIRA 7: Compile a Hazard Register HIRA 8: Compile a Risk Matrix HIRA 9: Implement Preventative Controls HIRA 10: Investigate Incidents and Accidents HIRA 11: Implement Mitigating Controls HIRA 12: Compile a Safety File In the end, you will understand Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment as a process, so it is important that you follow the correct sequence of courses during this adventure. We regard learning through experiencing as critical important. If you apply what you learn in your own working place as you progress, it will add tremendous value to your learning. |
Your future in Safety Management |
There is a great opportunity for a rewarding career in safety management but there are a few conditions for success: · You need to understand the technical system and processes in which you oversee the safety · You must understand the Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Process · You must be able to use critical thinking skills like analyses and evaluation · You must be able to identify problems and create solutions · You must have a sound understanding of the relevant issues that affect safety
Considering the trends in safety and the demands on safety practitioners, the aim of learning should be to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. Achieving that ideal was part of the objective when this course was designed. |
Message from the Course Creator Up until now, (2017) I have spent three years developing this course, researching, thinking, analysing, testing and repeating. I have also done it from a background of thirty years’ experience. I am confident that I present you with a unique course … but I am not one yet! I will continue to improve it because the lives of too many people are at stake. There will be no easing of the drive for continuous improvement. Now I need your help. I need to know what you think. I need to know what your experience of this course is. Please share with me why you did, or did not enrol for this course. I value your opinion and your responses. Please send me an email at: geere.johan@gmail.com |
- Quality Content
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- Radical methodology
- Designed for practical application
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YOU SAFE?
Creator Profile
My first lessons in safety did not come out of a book, it was written against the hard rock walls of a South African gold mine somewhere between 3000 and 9000 feet below surface. I did not have Lecturers, I had Mentors. Mentors in the form of real, tough mining men from both my supervisors and subordinates who shared their experiences with me. I listened and observed how each step you take is one to the next or a different risk level. Twenty seven years of reading the “mining-hieroglyphics” from those walls, told me never to assume anything, never to accept the obvious and never to allow what is not proven and accepted standard or procedure. Yes, I attended the official courses as well, and I enjoyed doing my own research and reading more beyond the class room curriculum and combining the theory with experience.
We had to remain alert and agile in our response to threats to ensure everybody is safe in that dark, warm and merciless environment where everything changes every day and where there are no constants. So I learned about conditions and attitudes you may not learn in other, more sterile and constant working environments.
Later in my career I became the person training other to work safely and ultimately, I became the Training Manager for a large gold mining company. It was a rewarding time and I learned a lot about people and about how men learn. My training is always aimed at enabling people to do things, not only knowing things.
I also spent five years being in charge of the training at a major construction site for a hydro-electric project.
Much of the time, I was assigned to developing course material or redeveloping and improving existing courses. I designed the lesson plans for many different types of machinery. Some called it my forte but I still enjoy this creative streak.
It is now time to pass my experience on to you and all the others that can make good use of it.
That is what this course, and others that will follow, is about. May it help you build a safe and successful career!
Johan Geere
Ladysmith
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
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