Introduction
The safety and environmental training is a critical component of every successful organisation where all employees including contractors are contractors visitor stakeholders understand their own responsibilities and acknowledgement of implemented procedures. This trainings reduces the workplace incident prevent occupational hazards and prevent adverse impact on organisation due to the organisational scope. The awareness training programs are the legal requirement of every organisation to ensure compliance and continuous improvement across the business.
Basically when organisation emphasise on continuous learning and continuous growth of the individual that bring a well-competent implies within the organisation that change and improve organisation efficiency and sustainability.
Purpose and Objectives
The primary purpose of safety and environmental awareness program to equip their employees with full knowledge of workplace situations to understand and recognise the existing hazard and get familiar with effectively management system. Providing regular training creates a proactive safety culture where safety is prioritise all the operation to ensuring the health and safety risk are adequately minimised.
These could be the objective of the providing regular training as follows:
- To establish strong safety awareness of workplace practises across the operation.
- Regular promoting and sharing lesson learnt based on the actual present risk
- To ensure all employees are well understand the adverse environmental impact within their activities.
- To meet the legal requirement and compliance with organisational requirement
- Constant trainings will help to change a behaviour of individual towards safe and clear instruction for the more sustainable practises.
Scope of Training
The comprehensive training scope must be implemented to ensure all affected or involved people must receive the respective trainings according to their job profession and the area where they are working to be considered for the understanding of the presence hazards and risk. It ensure that all implemented trainings and resources are properly allocated for the all department.
Clearly defining who what why and where the trainings could apply within the organisation can proactively and systematically eliminate the operational gaps and optimise efforts to ensure that trainings are properly integrated into the all business functions.
These are the targeted audience and organisational key positions for their training involvement and arrangement. Top management and executive leadership such as operation managers, departmental head, supervisors, frontline workers, contractors and side visitors etc.
3. Structure of Ongoing Training
The structure of any training program is a critical component of their effectiveness, The systematic framework based on the organisation requirement training material need to be prepared along with the training matrix. The training structure is very important for maintaining and ensuring the competency of all employees to reduce workplace issues near miss, incidents, and minimising remaining residual risk.
These are the following consideration shall be included in the training program.
- Training policy and objective of the training that can consist of commitment of work plus safety, compliance with local and international regulatory requirement, continuous improvement, incident prevention, and sustainability goal
- The organisational training hierarchy is mandatory aspect of every training such as the preparation of training material along with the necessary resources and the budget, establishing safety goals, review of training records and the understanding, and promoting safety culture etc.
By according to position such as HSE department supervisors and department leads are directly responsible to identify the needs of the training, preparing the presentations based on the requirement and consideration of real life examples, ensuring all people attend the training sessions, maintaining the record of attendees, evaluation of training effectiveness by visiting on the side or interacting with them.
Now employees responsibility also very important to acknowledge the training content and other all delivered content if there is something not understandable they can ask question with the tutor or they can provide a valuable feedback and any suggestion to enhance the site conditions etc.
Key Training Content Areas
The training content area refer to a mandatory or necessary topics or subject that required based on the operational need which is all employees need to understand the right practises and to maintain workplace safety. Basically these content are a foundation of every strong or positive safety culture reducing workplace health and safety issues ensuring compliance minimising adverse environmental impact.
4.1 Workplace Safety Awareness
This topic basically covers essential consideration and educating workers regarding the general health and safety concerns and safe for practises and the responsibility for maintaining safe and healthy working environment.
The following key topics covered such as importance of workplace safety, responsibilities of employee, best and the correct practises for hazard recognition, identifying reporting of unsafe address and safe condition along with near miss, accident prevention and reporting methods, workplace safety signages and emergency responses, basic welfare facility access etc
4.2 Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
This topic covers the methodology of hazard identification assessment that enables employees to recognise present Hazard and evaluate the risk.
The following elements could be considered during this training such as types of workplace common hazards, the risk assessment procedures and the requirement, process of JHA job hazard analysis, hierarchy of control, has it communication method etc.
4.3 Personal Protective Equipment Training
This training ensure and make all employees understand PPE requirement, the way of selection, care and maintenance, advantages and disadvantages. The all PPE must be selected as per the job role and the level of risk associated with the business, for this management have to decide or should have written criteria for the selection of PPE.
The designated area need to be provided for regular inspection the maintenance of their PPE.
4.4 Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness
This is one of the most crucial element of topic that every organisation need to be delivered at the beginning of their joinings so in case of any emergency everyone can properly evacuate the building and reach to assembly point and prevent properties damage.
The mandatory considerations could be such fire prevention methods, fire classification and execution methods, evacuation map and the nearest assembly points, the location of fire extinguishers and manual components, the location of first aid kits.
4.5 Chemical Safety and Hazard Communication
This training is very important to those people who directly involve or get exposure with the chemicals during the routine activities additionally those who were indirectly involved they should get awareness about the chemical.
Each manufacturer provides MSDS (material safety data sheet) the user of the chemical must review or read the MSDS of the chemical to understand the hazard or risk to healing due to use, the user must be familiar with the chemical handling and storage procedures, the user must be fully trained for the spill response or controlling it.
Conclusion
The Safety & Environmental awareness training is very important aspect of continuous improvement and sustaining robust safety culture. When companies providing the regular training as per the business nature that will ensure personnel high competence, early recognition of hazards and application necessary safety control measures.
Basically by regular training delivering will also help to effectively implement hse policies, procedures and operational best practices into the operational activities.