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HSL is to run a 1 day course on Upper Limb Disorders Risk Assessment of Repetitive Tasks.

13 July 2017

Introduction

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are the most common occupational illness in Britain affecting over 500,000 people a year. Nearly half of these illnesses are joint injuries and repetitive strain injuries of various sorts affecting the upper limbs.

To support employers, health and safety professionals and inspectors with risk assessing repetitive work, the Health and Safety Laboratory and Health and Safety Executive have developed the Assessment of Repetitive Tasks (ART) tool. Launched in Spring 2010, the ART tool is used to assess the frequent handling of light loads or other repetitive tasks that can contribute to upper limb disorders (ULDs).

This course will equip you with the knowledge to use the ART tool to help recognise, assess, and reduce upper limb disorder risks in your organisation. It will benefit those already involved in workplace MSD risk management (e.g. manual handling risk assessments) who wish to expand their knowledge on the topic of upper limb disorders.

What will the course cover?

• Common ULDs and their development
• Key ULD risk factors
• ULD risk management (including legal duties)
• ULD risk assessment using the ART tool
• Practise using the ART tool with case studies
• ULD risk controls

Who should attend?

Employers and their representatives who wish to undertake or improve ULD risk assessment and control within their organisation

Health and safety or occupational health professionals who wish to learn about the ART tool, or further their abilities in this area.

The course is targeted at organisations that carry out some manual production, processing, packaging, packing, and sorting activities.  The course will not cover assessment of Display Screen Equipment (DSE)

Previous experience of manual handling risk assessment is beneficial but not required.

Venue

The course will be run at the HSL laboratory in the spa town of Buxton. Buxton is in the heart of the Peak District and has good links to mainline train stations and Manchester International Airport.

Details of hotels in the Buxton area can be found at www.visitbuxton.co.uk

Cost

The cost of this course is £450 per person (includes course notes, lunch and refreshments).

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Please note the invoice option is not available within 4 weeks of the course date, or for overseas customers.  If you are selecting the invoice option for payment, it will be mandatory to input a purchase order/reference number as we are unable to process booking forms without this.

For further dates and additional information email: training@hsl.gsi.gov.uk or contact the Training & Conferences Unit
at HSL directly on +44 (0)1298 218806.

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HSL is to run a 2 day course on Procedures: Making sure yours work.

17 – 18 May 2017

Are you frustrated by workers in your organisation not following procedures?

Are procedures a recurring factor in your accidents and near misses?

Do you struggle to adhere to generic company procedures that don’t reflect the reality of your work context?

Do you feel that you have too many procedures or they’re just not useful but you don’t know what to do about them?

If you’ve answered yes to any or all of these questions, you are not alone and this course is for you.

Having good and effective procedures is something that marks out organisations that perform better on health, safety and environmental performance – and on wider business and quality performance too.  A core set of valued, useable and user-friendly procedures underpins good and consistent performance.  But it’s not about having lots of procedures (or long ones), it’s about having the right procedures for the right things and keeping them simple and concise.

This new HSL course is designed to help you review existing procedures effectively and equip you with the capability to write new ones. It is based on human factors good practice in designing, developing and writing procedures and other job aids and enhancing compliance. It makes good use of HSL’s wide industry experience in this area and its in-depth knowledge of what makes good procedures and setting up the physical and social context which will encourage people to use them. The course is aimed at procedure writers and reviewers (and those that manage this process) and provides practical focus on ‘the ‘how’ as well as using your own-company procedure examples to work on.

Those who attend will learn: the human factors principles that apply to good procedures; how to apply these practically to develop, design, review and write effective procedures; and what underpins compliance with procedures. The course provides some simple tools and guidance to help procedure writers and reviewers improve key procedures consistently and simply.

The course is suited to groups from organisations who are involved in procedure writing and review, either as single courses or working alongside similar groups from other organisations. The open course will run at the HSL Buxton site but the course can be delivered at your own site if there are suitable training facilities and access.

The course will be run at the HSL laboratory in the spa town of Buxton. Buxton is in the heart of the Peak District and has good links to mainline train stations and Manchester International Airport.

Details of hotels in the Buxton area can be found at www.visitbuxton.co.uk

The cost of the course is £1,100 per person (includes course notes, lunch and refreshments).

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Please note the invoice option is not available within 4 weeks of the course date, or for overseas customers.  If you are selecting the invoice option for payment, it will be mandatory to input a purchase order/reference number as we are unable to process booking forms without this.

For further dates and additional information email: training@hsl.gsi.gov.uk or contact the Training & Conferences Unit
at HSL directly on +44 (0)1298 218806.

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HSL is to run a 1 day course on Stair Assessment.

26 April 2017

The causes of stair falls are well understood but poorly designed stairs are still commonplace, stairs therefore often present significant potential for harm. A stair fall often leads to serious injury or even death. In the UK there is a fall on stairs every 90 seconds (BS 5395-1:2010). It is often assumed that all stairs comply with the relevant building codes and that compliance means the stair must be safe. Neither of these assumptions is true.

HSL falls prevention experts investigate serious and fatal stair accidents, often in seemingly innocuous environments like retail premises and restaurants. There are approximately 100,000 accidents on stairs in leisure environments each year, and several thousand more in the workplace.

Negotiating stairs is a largely subconscious task and, as such, falls are often blamed entirely on human error. In reality, the design of a stair plays a critical role in helping a pedestrian make their subconscious judgments accurately and therefore safely negotiate the stair. Understanding both stair design and human performance is the key to making a difference to risk.

Simple, cost-effective improvements to existing stairs can significantly reduce the risk of a serious fall. This course will help you understand the design features of stairs which can give rise to a risk of falling, and identify simple remedial improvements to reduce the likelihood of a fall.

To get the most out of the course, delegates are encouraged to share a stair fall issue from their own workplace in advance, with photographs where possible, for discussion during the day. This ensures that you get the most relevant information from the course.

By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge and skills to assess stairs in your own premises, and identify examples of good and bad practice. This will allow appropriate changes to working practices and the work environment to be considered and planned in proportion with the risks and costs involved.

The course will cover

• Common design issues that give rise to a risk of falls on stairs
• Examples of HSL stair investigations and the findings
• How to undertake a stair fall assessment using a simple toolkit
• An opportunity for you to assess stairs yourself and discuss with the expert

Anyone who is interested in understanding falls on stairs or who has responsibility for managing health and safety.

We can run bespoke courses at your premises tailored to your specific requirements. This includes a free expert assessment of your stairs.

The course will be run at the HSL laboratory in the spa town of Buxton. Buxton is in the heart of the Peak District and has good links to mainline train stations and Manchester International Airport.

Details of hotels in the Buxton area can be found at www.visitbuxton.co.uk
Cost

The full cost of the course is £450 per person (includes course notes, lunch and refreshments).

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Please note the invoice option is not available within 4 weeks of the course date, or for overseas customers.  If you are selecting the invoice option for payment, it will be mandatory to input a purchase order/reference number as we are unable to process booking forms without this.

For further dates and additional information email: training@hsl.gsi.gov.uk or contact the Training & Conferences Unit
at HSL directly on +44 (0)1298 218806.

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