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This program provides delegates with an introduction to identify the occupational health and safety hazard of their company’s process and workplace, the actual or potential risk and how to minimize risks through systematic approach. Training includes the importance of carrying out HIRARC and when it needs to be conducted.

Accident investigations are necessary to identify accident causation and insure implementation of corrective action. Therefore, supervisors shall immediately investigate and report all occurrences (near miss, accidents, and illnesses) with a written investigation report.

...That falls back to the model and framework that bring together the principles and evidence-based effective best practices of experts and practitioners in the field of OSH, to develop and implement OSH policies that address the physical and psychosocial working environments, promotes workers safety and health and creating safety-and-health-promoting work environments.

On 16 March 2022, the Federal Legislation had gazetted the Occupational Safety and Health (Amendment) Act 2022 (Act) by introducing new sections, amending certain sections, and deleting certain sections of the principal Act. The amendments are aimed at providing workers with a better quality of safe and healthy environment and also welfare. Directors must be aware of their individual, joint and several liabilities for occupational health violations. The highlights of the amendments are that it increases the protection accorded to an employee and places additional responsibilities on employers/principals towards their employee. Further, there has been an increase in penalties as a financial deterrent effort.

Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is an approach that can be applied successfully; it is gaining more interest across industry sectors globally and has the great advantage of needing the involvement of the individual employee, in addition of course, to employer commitment. Behaviors-Based Safety (BBS), which is often described as a bottom-up approach (frontline employees), with top-down support from safety leaders. A behavior-based safety approach promotes interventions that are people-focused and often incorporate one-to-one or group observations of employees performing routine work tasks, setting goals carefully and giving timely feedback on safety-related behavior, coaching and mentoring. The initiatives have a proactive focus, encouraging individuals and their work groups to consider the potential for incident involvement, (accidents) and to assess their own behavior as safe or unsafe always, no matter what.