Chapter 1: A holistic overview and the value of global OHS – Rigard Steenkamp
- OHS and QWL
- OHS is a global concern
- The value of human capital
- Governments must support OHS excellence
- The relationship between OHS excellence and business excellence
- QWL companies achieve better results
- Innovation in prevention
- Global risk concepts
- OHS challenges demand faith and supernatural intervention
- Global OHS principles
- A holistic approach to Safety
- A TQM safety and health model
- Collective behaviour-based safety (BBS)
- Guidelines for a quality PPE programme
- Environmental reporting
Chapter 2: Safety in industry – Cheryl Rielander
- Legal requirements of safety in industry
- Managing occupational health and safety in industry
- Key principles
- Management responsibilities and work practices
- Process safety management
- The safety-man
- Safety practices
- Hazard communication (HAZCOM)
- Emergency management and response plans
Chapter 3: Accountability and responsibility for safety, health and environment – Francois van Loggerenberg
- The relationship between accountability and responsibility
- Key elements of an accountability system
- Employee engagement
- Employees’ engagement with health and safety
- Safety, health and environmental (SHE) system
- Health and safety policy
- Key principles and objectives of a health and safety policy
- Health and safety programme
- Four elements of a health and safety programme
- Health and safety plan
Chapter 4: Managing safety in the workplace – Lizbie Fourie
- Nature of safety in a workplace
- Nature of safety management
- Core principles of safety management in a workplace
- Safety management functions
- Different levels of safety management
- Safety management leadership
- Role of the safety practitioner
Chapter 5: Managing safety in the office environment – Francois van Loggerenberg
- Integrating office safety into an organisation’s policy and strategy
- Core principles of managing safety in the office
- Interaction between employer and employee responsibilities regarding a safe office environment
- Accident prevention programme
- Principles of an accident prevention programme
Chapter 6: Fundamentals of occupational hygiene – Francois van Loggerenberg
- Occupational hygiene defined
- Recognising hazards or agents
- Evaluation of health hazards
- Control of health hazards
- Occupational hygiene programme
- Quality management system
- Auditing of occupational hygiene
Chapter 7: First aid and organisational health and safety – Lizbie Fourie
- Fundamental principles of first aid within organisational safety
- Legal compliance of first aid as part of organisational health and safety
- Responsibilities for first aid in the workplace
- Managing first aid in a workplace
- Workplace injuries or illnesses and first aid
- First-aid assessment in the workplace
Chapter 8: Elements that contribute to unsafe practices in the office environment and how to prevent them – Francois van Loggerenberg
- Unsafe practice defined
- Various forms of unsafe/dangerous practices in an office environment
- The impact of unsafe practices on employees and the organisation
Chapter 9: Risk management: hazard identification and risk assessment – Cheryl Rielander
- Legal requirements of risk assessments
- Risk management versus risk assessment
- Risk management
- Risk management: hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA)
- Hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA) process
- Risk assessment
Chapter 10: Construction safety requirements – Cheryl Rielander
- Legal requirements in construction
- Health and safety in construction
- Design and management in construction
- Training and competency
- Construction sites
Chapter 11: Working at heights, construction vehicles, lifting equipment and vibrations – Cheryl Rielander
- Construction site safety
- Working at heights
- Roof work
- Fall protection
- Ladders
- Scaffolds and suspended platforms
- Construction vehicles
- Lifting equipments
- Vibration
Chapter 12: Confined-space work risks – Leighton Bennett
- What is a confined space?
- What are the dangers in confined spaces?
- The legal requirements
- Permit system for a confined-space programme
- What should happen when work is being done in a confined space?
- Emergency rescue procedures
- Incident issues