Lot 7 - Safety Officer/ Coordinator Training

This comprehensive four day course, was developed to provide Building Managers /Competent persons / Accommodation Managers with an understanding of occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation and guidance for planning and coordinating H&S as additional responsibility to the current role assigned for an office-based work environment.

*Note: Reference to the building manager / competent person / accommodation manager is relating to the person appointed as the competent health and safety appointee under section 18 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. The title of this role will differ from organisation to organisation. Their role is one of local health and safety coordination supported by the Health and Safety Section.

The course will provide the learner with:

• An understanding of occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation 

• Guidance for planning and coordinating H&S in an office-based work environment

• An outline of the need for and contents of a safety statement

• An understanding of the preparation of H & S reports.

• Instruction on how to identify the necessary policies and processes required to manage health and safety risks

• How to identify; common hazards and risks in the workplace; sources of guidance and advice on health and safety; the requirement to coordination risk assessments and to coordinate the investigation of accidents

The course is delivered in a classroom environment, by a qualified instructor, with Occupational Health and Safety subject matter expertise.

Participants that successfully complete the course will receive a Safetech Certificate of Completion.

The course is generally carried out over 4 consecutive days, however delivery can be tailored to client requirements.

The maximum number of participants permitted to attend a single course is 20.

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.