Lot 8 : Safety Representative Training

This comprehensive three day course was developed to provide appointed safety representatives with knowledge of safety representation to employees. 

It encompasses the requirements outlined in Annex 2 of the HSA Safety Representatives and Safety Consultation Guidelines.

The course will provide the learner with a detailed understanding of: 

• The role of the safety representative and safety-committee members in the safety consultation and participation process

• Communication skills for the safety representative and safety-committee members

• Hazard identification and carrying out risk assessments

• Preparing and implementing the safety statement

• Carrying out safety and health inspections

• Accident investigation, recording and analysis

• Sources of safety and health information

• Risk-control and safety and health management at work

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 3 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.