Nature and scope of health and safety

Reasons/benefits and barriers for good practices of health and safety

Legal frame work and OHS Management System

Four principles of safety- RAMP (Recognize, Assess, Minimize, Prepare)

Re-thinking safety-learning from incidents

Safety ethics and rules

Roles and responsibilities towards safety

Building positive attitude towards safety

Safety cultures in academic institutions

Hazards and Risk

Types of hazards: Physical (mechanical and non-mechanical), Chemical (Toxic and biological agents), electrical, fire, construction, heat and temperature, noise and vibration, falling and lifting etc.

Learning the language of safety: Signs, symbols and labels

Material safety data sheets

Safety data sheets and the GHS (Globally Harmonized Systems)

Costs of accidents

Time lost

Work injuries, parts of the body injured on the job

Chemical burn injuries

Construction injuries

Fire injuries

Risk Concept and Terminology

Risk assessment procedure

Risk Metric’s

Risk Estimation and Acceptability Criteria

Principles of risk prevention

Selection and implementation of appropriate Risk controls

Hierarchy of controls

Fire

Chemical Spill

First Aid

Trainings:Firefighting

Trainings:Evacuation in case of emergency

Workplace stress and sources

Human reaction to workplace stress

Measurement of workplace stress

Shift work, stress and safety

Improving safety by reducing stress

Stress in safety managers

Stress and workers compensation

Incident Investigation

recording and reporting

Techniques of investigation

Monitoring

Review

Auditing Health and Safety