Online Risk and Safety Management for Engineers: Communication/Monitoring

This unit introduces Safety Culture and how, by moving up a cultural maturity ladder, an organisation can improve its safety performance.

By the end of this unit you will be able to:

• Define safety culture
• Identify the characteristics which make an effective safety culture
• Understand the developmental stages of a safety culture
• Define and characterise a High Reliability Organisation

This unit explains the basic fundamentals of incident investigation and analysis.

By the end of this unit you will be able to:

• Demonstrate a thorough grounding in the underlying theories behind accident cause analysis
• Apply an investigation and analysis process to determine the sequence of events and the root causes of an incident

This unit explains what is meant by communication and consultation.

By the end of this unit you will be able to:

• Define Communication and Consultation and understand the difference between them
• Describe the fundamentals of communicating public risk
• Identify the UK regulations which require employee consultation on health and safety

This unit explains why and how HSE performance monitoring is carried out.

By the end of this unit you will be able to:

• Understand how performance monitoring fits into the overall HSEMS
• Establish suitable performance indicators

This unit describes what a Safety Case is, potential benefits of developing a Safety Case, how to put one together and how to make good use of it.

By the end of this unit you will be able to:

• Understand the role of the Safety Case
• Explain the content of the Safety Case
• Plan the development and maintenance of a Safety Case

This unit will assess your learning of the material covered in the course: Risk and Safety Management for Engineers: Communication/Monitoring.