Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• Outline the scope and nature of Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) management
• Explain the moral, social and economic reasons for maintaining and promoting good standards of HSE in the workplace
• Explain the role of governments and international bodies in formulating a framework for the regulation of HSE management
• Demonstrate an understanding of the risk assessment process and methodology
• Demonstrate an understanding of HSE documentation
• Understand the basic requirements of NOSA CMB253, CMB001, OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 management systems and standards

Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• The unique challenges that the interpretation of law presents
• The difference between legislation and common law
• The difference between criminal and civil liability
• Other types of important liability
• Important aspects regarding HSE legislation
• How HSE legislation is enforced
• The role of the International Labour Organisation and non-governmental bodies in global HSE.

Furthermore, you should also gain insight into the following:

• The complexity of law and legal issues and principles
• The importance of the law within the context of HSE related issues

Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• The basic guidelines and criteria for a safety-relevant site layout
• The importance of good housekeeping, including the requirements for storage and stacking
• The different types of symbolic safety signs and their importance
• The different types of portable tools
• An overview of lifting equipment and its key safety factors
• The fundamentals of elevated work, primarily with regard to ladders and scaffolding
• Safety requirements of different types of pressure equipment
• The basics of electricity and fundamentals regarding electrical safety
• Important aspects and features relating to fire safety
• A comprehensive overview of the different types of safeguarding, both equipment-related and personal
• A basic overview of behaviour-based safety (BBS)

Furthermore, you should also gain insight into the following:

• The many different technical aspects relating to safety in the workplace
• The diversity of safety issues found in the workplace
• How safety encompasses many different disciplines
• The complexity, both technical and non-technical, of safety-related issues

Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• What comprises occupational hygiene and typical occupational hygiene terminology and principles
• The role and functions of the occupational hygienist
• The different aspects relating to toxicity, including acute and chronic health effects
• Workplace occupational stressors that can adversely affect health, including noise, illumination, ventilation, thermal issues and radiation
• Hazardous biological agents and chemical substance stressors
• How ergonomic issues can adversely affect worker health
• The history and development of occupational health
• The importance and role of the occupational health system
• The role and functions of the occupational health practitioner
• The importance of medical surveillance within occupational health
• Primary health care in context
• How disability and occupational disease are managed
• How occupational hygiene, occupational medicine and primary health care are an interrelated aspect of occupational health
• How occupational health issues, unlike those relating to safety, are primarily medium- to long-term in nature
• How occupational health encompasses both the occupational and social realms
• The technicality of occupational hygiene factors
• The range and complexity of health-related factors found in the workplace

Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• Important environmental definitions which are integral to environmental discourse
• Important ecological and environment-related principles
• Important environmental concerns of today
• International environmental agreements and trends
• Pollution, with attributes and examples
• The fundamentals regarding global warming and climate change
• Waste, including different waste streams and management thereof
• An environmental impact assessment
• The role of cleaner production in environmental management, including pollution prevention and eco-efficiency
• How environmental performance can be monitored effectively
• The growing importance of sustainability

Furthermore, you should also gain insight into the following:

• How the environment is integral to human development
• How environmental issues continue to grow in stature, both in the workplace and broader society
• How climate change is increasingly shaping socio-political, legal and business discourse
• The interrelationship between environmental issues and public health
• How sustainability defines not only the future of management and business, but society itself

Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• The development of risk management since the mid-20th century
• Key risk-related definitions and principles
• How risk 'sophistication' is relative to the risk commitment of an organisation
• Different approaches to, and theories regarding, the risk management process
• The different categories of risk assessments
• The Principles and importance of risk assessments
• The risk assessment process within the context of risk management
• How to conduct a baseline risk assessment
• Types of risk controls
• Different ways in which risk can be financed, both pre-loss and post-loss

Furthermore, you should also gain insight into the following:

• There is no single, definitive concept of 'risk' and 'risk management' or what they should encompass
• Risk is an integral, key aspect of management
• Risk is clearly at the heart of health, safety and environment management
• Risk assessments are the critical foundation of risk management
• Risk is multi-dimensional and complex

Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• Different management system theories
• Different aspects of 'management'
• The process of management, also known as 'POLC'
• The simplicity and universality of the PDCA cycle
• The importance of HSE management integration
• The integration of HSE management
• The NOSA approach to PDCA i.e. the CMB 001
• The planning component of the PDCA, including HSE corporate standards and legal requirements
• What an HSE policy is and what it should comprise
• The importance of developing a HIRA-based HSEMP and what it should encompass
• The implementation component of the PDCA, including HSE structure, appointments, training and communication
• Implementation and operation of a HSE management system
• The importance of documentation in an HSE management system, including how to compile a procedure and work instruction
• Emergency management as part of HSE management system implementation

Furthermore, you should also gain insight into the following:

• How risk management has evolved over the years and continues to do so
• How beneficial the PDCA cycle can be in giving 'shape' to an HSE management system
• How the PDCA cycle can be applied to any management system; hence the power in its sheer simplicity
• How much thought and work must go into planning an HSE management system
• How much thought and work goes into implementing an HSE management system.

Successful completion of this module will enable the learner to understand:

• The importance of the 'check', 'act' and 'continual improvement' components in the `Plan-Do-Check-Act' (PDCA) cycle
• Types of monitoring and measurement that contribute to effective checking
• Differentiate between different types of monitoring, measurement and inspection types
• How to compile a comprehensive and effective monitoring plan, the role of audits, both internal and external, as part of the checking component of the PDCA cycle
• The NOSA CMB 253 and allied protocols as a possible 'blueprint' for developing and maintaining an HSE management system
• The incident reporting and investigation process, including root cause analysis and incident costing and recall
• How corrective and preventive actions are needed to remedy and prevent system non-conformance
• The attributes and importance of an HSE management review
• The importance of continuous improvement within any HSE management system

Furthermore, you should also gain insight into the following:

• The thought and work behind checking and correcting an HSE management system
• The thought and work behind reviewing an HSE management system at the highest levels of an organisation
• The importance of continuous improvement for the vigour and sustainability of an effective HSE management system
• How concluding the course with a focus on management systems is a logical culmination to the foundational knowledge that has been acquired
• SAMTRAC's adherence to a logical, systemic approach - as a management system should do