Course description
The EUSR Safety, Health and Environmental Awareness (or SHEA) schemes are an excellent way to provide a uniform approach to health, safety and environmental awareness within your company. The SHEA Water one-day course is essential training for operatives of all levels (including supervisors and managers) who require access to operational sites, both permanent and temporary. It has been developed through careful consultation with the utilities industry to give operatives an excellent understanding of key workplace health, safety and environmental issues.
Suitability - Who should attend?
All individuals requiring access to operational sites within the water industry, including supervisors and managers.
Prerequisites
There are no pre-course requirements for this course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the legal frameworks with regards to health, safety and the environment, as well as their practical application in the workplace setting, including their own personal responsibilities and those of their employer.
- Understand key environmental considerations in the workplace, and the employees’ impact on the sustainability of their workplace environment.
- Identify and control workplace risks and hazards and understand their own role in preventing them through a range of proactive health and safety behaviours, in line with CSCS requirements.
- Explain the hazards associated with clean and waste- water sites, high pressure jets and entering manholes as well as know how to minimize these risks.
- Understand risks and controls when undertaking excavation work, including what to do in an emergency.
- Know the potential issues of working with public and private locations, as well as protocols of lone working.
- Explain the term ‘occupational health’, identify a range of occupational health hazards within the workplace and be able to minimise their impact.
- Understand emergency response behaviours, the role of reporting, inspection and enforcement of health & safety in the workplace. Understand the impact on employee and employer of both poor/improving health and safety in the workplace.
Training Course Content
The course consists of 8 modules -6 core and 2 industry specific- which cover the following learning outcomes:
- Understanding our workplace responsibilities
- Understanding the effects of our work on the environment
- Identifying and controlling risks
- Common hazards in the workplace
- Sewerage network and process operations (industry specific module)
- Occupational health hazards
- Responding to emergencies
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