Course Details
- Course Code: OS-TT-S101-S-18M
- Mode of Delivery: Onsite
- Duration: 18 Months
- Price: On Request
L3 HSE Practitioner Apprenticeship
Course Overview
This course is designed to equip candidates with the knowledge, understanding, and skills required for success in future employment as an HSE Practitioner, and for progression within the profession by the achievement of further academic and vocational qualifications. The program content and deliverables are derived from Oman National Occupational Standards (ONOS) approved for use by the Ministry of Manpower.
• High school diploma leavers wishing to pursue a career within HSE. • Diploma/Graduate Science and engineering streams wishing to pursue a career within HSE. • Existing employees wishing to gain (re-skilling) or extend their qualifications (upskilling). • Employees undertaking work-based vocational qualifications (VQs) that wish or are required to acquire relevant and appropriate underpinning knowledge.
Candidates wishing to enroll in this programme must meet the following criteria as a minimum:a) Min of class 12 science stream and overall school leaving grade of 60% or higher.b) Successful completion of English Language assessment and aptitude testing.Candidates who do not possess formal entry qualifications suggested above may be considered forentry if they have relevant, current, and appropriate work experience in a similar HSE-designated role.Where work experience is used as evidence for entry, this should be current, and candidates maybe asked to provide formal references.
Candidates on successful completion of training are entitled to a ‘Certificate of Attendance’ attested by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation from NTI and an Oman National Vocational Diploma Qualification from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA).
Other Details
Unit 01 - Hazard Identification
- The meaning of ‘health, safety and environment in the workplace
- The importance of health, safety, and environment-Moral, Legal & Financial reasons
- Categories of Hazards and their harmful effects
- Safety signs and signals
- Errors & Violations
- Hazards relating to conditions in a workplace
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Conducting safety interventions
- Welfare provision at work
- Personal hygiene
- First Aid provision at work
- Manager/employer responsibilities for health, safety and environment
Unit 02 – Risk Management
- Statutory requirements for managing health, safety and environmental risks
- Methods and techniques for identifying hazards and assessing risks
- Hazard identification techniques
- Risk control measures, including safe systems of work
- Where to find expert advice and guidance
- Communicating the risk management strategies
- Reviewing the effectiveness of risk management arrangements
- Quality management requirements for documentation
Unit 03- Safe working procedures
- Safe work procedures
- Legal responsibilities for safe working procedures
- Developing safe working procedures
- Communicating safe working procedures
- Assessing safe working procedures
- Workplace information sources
- Dealing with, or promptly reporting relevant hazards and risks
Unit 04 - Safely control work operations
- The employers and employees main responsibilities for controlling operations
- Sources of health, safety, and environment information
- Competence and capabilities
- Inspecting work operations
- Common activities and controls
- Intervals for inspecting health, safety, and environmental compliance
- Hazard notices and alerts
- How to use effective communication methods
- Keeping and reviewing health, safety, and environmental records
- Dealing with, or promptly reporting relevant hazards and risks
Unit 05 - Environmental protection from workplace operations
- The impact of individuals and work processes on the environment
- Substances, materials and equipment which can be hazardous to the environment
- Environmental compliance obligations on employers and employees
- Workplace instructions, precautions and procedures
- Remaining alert to the presence of hazards to the environment
Unit 06 - Emergency response systems and procedures
- Types of emergencies for which procedures should be developed
- Emergency planning
- Actions to be taken during and after an emergency
- Communicating emergency plans and procedures
- Practicing emergency plans
- Procedures for medical emergencies
- Procedures for fire emergencies
- Procedures for managing the release of hazardous substances
- Legal obligations for managing emergencies
Unit 07 - Promoting HSE Culture in the Workplace
- Health, safety and environment culture and climate
- Indicators for determining health, safety and environment culture
- Barriers to a positive health, safety and environment culture
- Promoting a positive health, safety and environment culture
- Engaging and communicating with employees and others
- The main legal responsibilities for health, safety and environment
- Dealing with, or promptly reporting relevant hazards and risk
Unit 08 - Effective communication of HSE information
- The principles for effective communication (The five-step process)
- The different ways people communicate
- Formal and informal communication
- The barriers to effective communication
- Information needs of employees
- Communicating with people outside the organization
- Statutory requirements for information and reporting
Unit 09 - Proactive HSE monitoring
- HSE performance monitoring strategies
- Reactive monitoring techniques
- Proactive monitoring techniques
- Monitoring the performance of engineering controls for airborne contaminants
- Statutory and best practice requirements for proactive monitoring
- Measuring the effectiveness of improvement programmes
- Information and document management
Unit 10 - Investigating incidents and observations at work
- Reasons for investigating incidents and observations
- Incident reporting
- Incident causation models
- Which events should be investigated?
- Incident investigation teams
- Investigation tools and techniques
- Interviewing witnesses
- Improvement strategies and action planning
Unit 11 - HSE Audits
- Health, safety and environment management systems
- Audits
- Auditing guidelines for management systems
- Selecting auditors and auditing companies
- Quality management requirements for documentation
Unit 12 - Review of HSE procedures at the workplace
- Understanding reviews
- Responsibilities for health, safety and environment at work
- Organisational structures and responsibilities
- Methods for reviewing safe working procedures
- Planning and conducting the review
- Post review actions
- Communicating performance review findings
Unit 13 - Develop and implement the health, safety and environment induction process
- The responsibilities for health, safety and environment
- Induction training principles
- Legal obligations for induction and ongoing training
- Preparing information for induction training
- Induction process – a systematic approach
- Presenting the induction
- Gaining feedback from inductions
- Reviewing and updating the induction process
Unit 14 - Safe working in extreme environmental conditions
- Hazards associated with working in extreme environmental conditions
- The effects of extreme thermal conditions on the human body
- Thermal comfort
- Controlling risks from working in extreme environments
- Legal obligations and standards for working in extreme conditions
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) for use in extreme environmental conditions
By the end of the module, the candidate will be able:
- To develop the required level of competence and understanding of different working environments.
- To develop the required level of competence and understanding of basic health, safety, and environment.
- To raise awareness of Hazard Identification.
- To raise awareness of Omani basic HSE Legislation.
- To raise their ability to identify and understand “Hazards”.
- To develop their ability to identify significant hazards and manage risks effectively through the use of proactive control measures.
- To prepare, implement and assess the suitability of health, safety, and environmental procedures for the workplace.
- To develop knowledge and understanding of statutory and workplace operations.
- To develop knowledge and understanding of the responsibilities of health, safety, and environment representatives at work for minimizing risks to the environment because of work activities.
- To develop knowledge and understanding for the implementation of health, safety, and environment emergency response systems and procedures.
- To develop their ability to promote a health, safety, and environment culture in the workplace.
- To raise their ability to effectively communicate health, safety, and environment systems information.
- To implement and review proactive monitoring systems for health, safety, and the environment.
- To develop their ability to investigate incidents and observations involving health, safety, and environment at work and make recommendations because of these investigations.
- To develop their ability to implement and conduct health, safety, and environmental audits
- To facilitate the development and implementation of suitable and sufficient health and safety induction process that fulfills current legislation.
- To develop Core Skills in assessing the risk and advice on working safely in extreme conditions.