Human Applications Training: tailored courses

Training
Tailored Courses

Human Applications offers a number of training courses that can be tailored to your specific needs. Courses generally fall into one of three categories and those that we have run recently are listed below. If you don't see a course that meets your requirements, we can design one for you.

	Business Risk Management (BRM)
	Devising BRM ‘systems’
	Getting the board on board
	Risk registers – making them work
	Risk evaluation workshops
	Quality Assurance in risk management
	Training for business unit risk managers
	Top X’ training – keeping it simple and focussed
	Risk Management
	Health & Safety Responsibilities into the Future
	Safety for Chief Executives and Board Members
	Health & Safety Risk Management for Managers
	Health & Safety for Safety Reps
	Health and Safety
	Setting Effective Safety Performance Targets and Standards
	Effective Local Safety Auditing for Managers
	Conducting Effective Local Accident Investigations
	Avoiding / Managing Work-Related Disorders
	Management Briefing on Specific Regulations
	User Training Courses
	Ergonomics
	Ergonomics in Practice (from the IOSH training programme)
	Ergonomics for Production / Manufacturing Engineers
	Ergonomics for Facilities and Business Services Managers
	Dealing with RSI / WRULDs / MSDs
	Avoiding / Managing Work-Related Disorders
	User Training

Business Risk Management Courses

	Business Risk Management – an Introduction
	One and two-day workshops to introduce the concepts of risk management in a highly practical and interactive way – ideal to assist risk managers in getting the message ‘out there’.
	Getting the Board on board
	A short, punchy session aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the most important players to risk management as an effective business tool.
	Risk Registers – making them work
	Defining and developing risk registers to be a practical contribution to business profitability and/or service delivery instead of the ‘tick-box’ systems they too often are.
	Risk Evaluation Workshops
	Real-time risk evaluation at the coalface. Conducted either with seaprate business units or, ideally, with cross-functional groups, these workshops use well-tried and tested techniques to elicit and record valid. reliable and comparable risk judgements – with quality.
	‘Top X’ Training – keeping it simple and focussed
	How not to get bogged down in the trivia. Keeping managers focussed on what matters and learning to discard what doesn’t. Not ‘records for the sake of it’, but records and systems which make things happen – in the real-world.

Risk Management Courses

	Health & Safety Responsibilities into the Future
	Awareness for Boards and Top Management. (0.5 - 1 day)
	Safety for Chief Executives and Board Members
	Tailored safety briefings (often one to one) for Chief Executives who want to be, and remain ahead of, the safety game. (usually 2-3 hrs)
	Health & Safety Risk Management for Managers
	A one day 'zap' through the full range of safety concerns which modern managers should understand (often also used as a pre-cursor to running the IOSH Managing Safely courses). (1 day)
	Health & Safety for Safety Reps
	A one day review of the role and responsibilities of a staff safety representative. How to be effective in a modern risk management context. (1 day)

Health and Safety Courses

	Setting Effective Safety Performance Targets and Standards
	A practical course for managers who want to develop effective local safety targets for improving safety performance. Then, how to develop realistic local safety performance standards for the future. (1 day)
	Effective Local Safety Auditing for Managers
	It's no good just having safety policies and procedures and doing risk assessments and risk control - periodically you need to audit whether the system works effectively in practice. This is a short introductory course on how local managers can undertake effective audits and thus continue to improve local safety practice. (1 day)
	Conducting Effective Local Accident Investigations
	When safety goes wrong and accidents occur it's often down to local managers to conduct the first-line accident investigation. But what is an effective investigation? How is one done? What are the outcomes supposed to be? What records need to be generated? What needs to be done with them? This course (doubly effective if a second 'practical' day is added) is for all managers who need to or want to do better, more effective accident investigations in the future. (1-2 days)
	Avoiding / Managing Work-Related Disorders
	Work-related musculo-skeletal disorders (MSDs) are an increasing occupational health problem in any work environment where postural or other biomechanical problems might occur. How to avoid such problems should be the primary aim of responsible managers, but how to do that isn't necessarily easy. Once problems have occurred, then the effective management of the injured persons and their return to work requires an additional set of skills and awareness of a whole stack of additional issues. This course, tailored specifically to local concerns, will lead engineers, managers and occupational health professionals through all the relevant issues in developing a management strategy for dealing effectively with MSDs in the future. (1-2 days)
	Management Briefing on Specific Regulations
	Awareness on specific Regulations and their implications (e.g. Manual Handling, Work Equipment Safety, Display Screen Equipment, etc). (0.5 day)
	User Training Courses
	To complement our IOSH Risk Assessment and Risk Management courses, we also offer a range of small group User Training courses specifically tailored to local company needs: - Safe handling in the workplace (2-4 hrs) - Using display screen equipment safely (2-4 hrs) - Safe workstation set-up and use (2-4 hrs) - Safe homeworking (essential for anyone working from home either out of choice or because of employer requirements) (1 day)

Ergonomics Courses

	Ergonomics in Practice
	This is IOSH's basic practical 3 day introductory course on the theory and practice of workplace ergonomics. The course reviews the full range of issues about how modern ergonomics skills can be used to promote and achieve both improved workplace safety and better production effectiveness and efficiency. The course is suitable for all those managers and safety professionals who wish to gain a better understanding of how to use ergonomics skills (either in-house or through the use of external consultants) to improve workplace safety and efficiency, both in industrial and office settings. (3 days)
	Ergonomics for Production / Manufacturing Engineers
	A practical course on improving production safety and efficiency using ergonomics tools, techniques and skills to aid better workplace, workstation and work tool design. (3 days)
	Ergonomics for Facilities and Business Services Managers
	Using ergonomics tools and techniques in furniture specification and selection, workplace and workstation layout and, where appropriate, in the working office environment. (1-3 days)
	Dealing with RSI / WRULDs / MSDs
	Developing an effective corporate strategy for dealing with the potentially difficult problem of Work-Related Upper Limb Disorders and other Musculo-Skeletal Disorders. (1 day)
	Avoiding / Managing Work-Related Disorders
	Work-related musculo-skeletal disorders (MSDs) are an increasing occupational health problem in any work environment where postural or other biomechanical problems might occur. How to avoid such problems should be the primary aim of responsible managers, but how to do that isn't necessarily easy. Once problems have occurred, then the effective management of the injured persons and their return to work requires an additional set of skills and awareness of a whole stack of additional issues. This course, tailored specifically to local concerns, will lead engineers, managers and occupational health professionals through all the relevant issues in developing a management strategy for dealing effectively with MSDs in the future. (1 day)
	User Training
	To complement our IOSH Risk Assessment and Risk Management courses we also offer a range of small group User Training courses specifically tailored to local company needs: - Safe handling in the workplace (2-4 hrs) - Using display screen equipment safely (2-4 hrs) - Safe workstation set-up and use (2-4 hrs) - Safe homeworking (essential for anyone working from home either out of choice or because of employer requirements) (1 day)