Environmental Health & Safety Risk Management (EHS)

Within many organizations, some elements of EHS management are already in place, such as policy and risk assessment records, but other aspects need to be developed. It is important that all the elements described here are incorporated into the EHS management system. The manner and extent, to which individual elements are applied, however, depend on factors such as the size of the organization, the nature of its activities, the hazards, and the conditions in which it operates. An initial status review should be carried out in all organizations that do not have an established EHS management system. This initial status review will provide information on the scope, adequacy, and implementation of the current management system. Where no formal management system exists, or if the organization is newly established, the initial status review should indicate where the organization stands with respect to managing risks.

Upon completing this course you will be able to:

• Understand the four main principles of operational human performance
• Identify safety deficiencies, hazards, consequences and risks
• Apply safety management principles
• Describe safety risk evaluation fundamentals
• Perform safety risk evaluations
• Use safety assurance concepts

This ICL's Environmental Health & Safety Risk Management (EHS) training course uses a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies, and role plays. A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with some new techniques.

• Managers
• Supervisors
• Team Leaders
• Professionals of all fields
• Safety Professionals
• Employee Representatives
• Quality Assurance Managers
• Environmental Managers
• Health Safety Managers
• General Managers
• Safety Officers
• Quality Directors
• Regulatory Affairs Managers
• Management Representatives

Prevention of occupational risks

Important concepts in risk management: hazard and risk

Risk Management

Preparation of the process

• Identification of exposed workers – particular attention should be given to:
• workers with special needs, such as pregnant women, young workers, aging workers and workers with disabilities;
• Maintenance workers, cleaners, contractors and visitors
• Characterization of tasks, work equipment, materials, and work procedures;
• Identification and characterization of safety measures in use;
• Identification of work accidents and occupational diseases related with the workplace in analysis; and
• Identification of legislation, standards or company regulations related to the workplace in analysis.

Risk analysis

• Identification of hazards present in the workplace and work environment;
• Identification of hazards discovered in previous risk management;
• Identification of potential consequences of the recognized hazards – risks

Risk Assessment

• Risk Evaluation
• Ranking of evaluated risks
• Classifying risk acceptability

Risk Control

• Design safety control measures
• Implement safety control measures
• Prevention measures
• Protection measures
• Mitigation measures
• Training and information
• Education and Training
• Common Types of Specialized Training
• Safety Training Steps
• Conducting the Training

Review and update

• Plan Evaluation

Incident or accident report writing

• Facts
• Simple Language
• Formatting
• 5 Ws and H

Risk Management Tools

• Avoidance (eliminate, withdraw from or not become involved)
• Reduction (optimize – mitigate)
• Sharing (transfer – outsource or insure)
• Retention (accept and budget)