OHS Safety Officer - Online Course

Description

This online Occupational Health & Safety Officer Training Course will help you to gain knowledge and understanding of some most common occupational health and safety topics that you may need in order to fulfill your responsibilities as an Occupational Health & Safety Officer. This course has been designed by our team of occupational health and safety consultants having more than 25 years’ experience in handling occupational health and safety issues of different types of industries in different countries across the world.  This online course will help OHSAS Officers and OH&S professionals in understanding all major occupational health and safety hazards commonly found in workplaces and industries, e.g. fire hazards, electrical hazards, chemical hazards, as well as hazards associated with compressed gas cylinders, working at height and in confined spaces. The knowledge shared in this course can be very useful for those who want to know the methods and controls for addressing industrial/workplace hazards in accordance with established national/international laws/ regulations/standards/ guidelines, codes of practice etc. This online OHS Officer Training Course also takes into consideration the convenience of participants. It will be extremely beneficial for those users or participants, who prefer to learn online from their home or office at their own convenient time and get certified. After completion of this training course successfully, the participants will be awarded a training certificate for Certified Occupational Health & Safety Officer.

Content of Occupational Health & Safety Officer Training Course

This Occupational Health & Safety Officer training online course contains video tutorials recorded by experienced OH&S professionals and OH&S management system trainer. For better understanding, handouts in .pdf formats are also provided that can be easily downloaded to user’s device. The course also includes online session exams and a final exam to evaluate the user’s knowledge on the subject.

1. Videos:
   The video tutorials on following topics are given in this course:
   • Session - 1 : General Principles of Accident Prevention
   • Session - 2 : Legal Requirements and Guidelines for Manufacturing, Handling and Use of Chemicals
   • Session - 3 : Chemical Spill Response
   • Session - 4 : Handling of Hazardous Chemicals
   • Session - 5 : Basics of Fire Safety
   • Session - 6 : Fire Prevention
   • Session - 7 : Fire Protection Systems
   • Session - 8 : Introduction and Types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
   • Session - 9 : Selection, inspection, use and maintenance of PPEs
   • Session - 10 : Electrical Safety at Workplace
   • Session - 11 : Handling and Use of Compressed Gas Cylinders
   • Session - 12 : Transportation and Storage of Compressed Gas Cylinders
   • Session - 13 : Managing The Risks Associated With Compressed Gas Cylinders
   • Session - 14 : Safe Work practices for Confined Spaces
   • Session - 15 : Managing The Risks Associated With Confined Spaces
   • Session - 16 : Management of Scaffolding Activities.
2. Handouts:
   The handouts in pdf format for all of the above sessions of Occupational Health & Safety Officer Training are provided to the participants. The participants can download and save the handouts in their computer for better understanding and for future reference also. They can read the handouts offline, anytime and anywhere.
3. Online Exams:
   The participants of this online course will be required to clear all sixteen session exams and one final exam, which are given as a part of the course. After successfully passing the final exam, his/her auto-generated certificate will be issued and can be downloaded and printed from the dashboard.

Course Objectives

The objectives of this online course are to Increase your knowledge and understanding of:

• Key occupational health and safety areas
• Overview of applicable rules/regulations etc for occupational health and safety issues
• Commonly found occupational health and safety hazards
• Controls for different types of occupational health and safety hazards
• How to effectively address different occupational health and safety hazards
• Roles and responsibilities of employees and management/company with regard to OH&S
• PPEs and their use for different types of occupational health and safety hazards
• How to respond to occupational health and safety emergency
• Signs and symbols, used for different occupational health and safety hazards.

Who Can Enrol In This Course?

This course is specifically designed for people who are engaged in and/or responsible for ensuring health and safety for all people at work in the company. This course will help all those who want to know about identification and control measures for various occupational health and safety hazards as mentioned in the course content.

 In particular, this course is useful for:

• Occupational health & safety officers of any type and size of industries
• Occupational health & safety professionals
• Employees working in any industries
• Occupational health & safety team leader and members
• Occupational health & safety inspectors and auditors
• Employers /management team members across industries

Prerequisites

There is no prerequisite for joining this course; however, following will be helpful for better understanding and utilization of this course:

• General awareness of occupational health & safety
• Knowledge of basic terms related to occupational health & safety hazards
• Ability to understand instructions and safety measures in English.

AUTHORS & INSTRUCTORS

For details of the authors, trainers and instructors experience and background, please visit our trainers page. They have very rich experience on the subject.

STUDY MATERIALS

This e-Learning course is provided with study materials and you can read it after your log in or download (PDF format). Use the study materials to reinforce key points and to keep a reminder of what you already learned as well as you can save it in your computer for future reference. The access of this study material is removed after exam is cleared and on line certificate is prepared for the student.

EXAMINATION AND COURSE CERTIFICATE

All paid E-learning course includes the Course Certificate that is issued upon course completion and passing the session exams as well as a final exam given in the course with minimum 60% marks. The option to reappear in the exam is also given to student, if failed in any exam.

END OF COURSE INSTRUCTION

After completing the session and passing each session examination the student can appear for final exam. Once the final exam is cleared then it is considered a end of course. The training certificate is ready on our LMS and student can print it or save the training certificate. It is also available for verification by entering the name and certificate number.