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NEBOSH CoursesNEBOSH Construction

Certificate

NEBOSH Environmental

Certificate

NEBOSH Fire Certificate

NEBOSH General

Certificate

IOSH CoursesIOSH Managing Safely

IOSH Managing Safely in

Construction

IOSH Safety for Executives

and Directors

CITB CoursesCITB Achieving Behavioural

Change (ABC)

CITB Site Safety Awareness

CITB SMSTS Courses

CITB SMSTS Refresher

Courses

CITB SSSTS Courses

CITB SSSTS Refresher

Courses

For the latest Health & Safety Training Coursesvisit www.riskhealthandsafety.com

Winter 2018

www.riskhealthandsafety.com

The 9 Components of a Safety Plan

Mike Adams MBE –The Military Mindset

Union Jack Club, London Waterloo – Great new venue for RISK

RISK has relocated its Londonbased training courses to theUnion Jack Club directly oppositeWaterloo Station.Perfect location for our health and safety coursesThe location of our new London training venue is excellent, andprovides easy access which is proving to be very popular withour delegates. This is because it’s directly opposite WaterlooRailway Station and the Jubilee, Northern and Bakerloounderground lines.

Great facilities delivering above average performance“With space to stretch your legs, think or simply get a coffee, we are finding the performance of our delegates has improved.The quality of our training has always been highly respected andcommended by the accrediting bodies we represent and thedelegates we train. However, the new venue appears to havestrengthened our record of delivering industry leading training.”

Mike Adams, Managing Director.RISK & Safety Management Services Limited

Whether you are a director of a large organisation or small business, your

obligations to health and safety are binding. Get it wrong and the best

outcome could be the company bears the cost of an HSE intervention,

and possibly a fine. Worst case scenario is that you would be prosecuted

personally and could face a significant custodial sentence.

A guide to help you understand your responsibilitiesRISK has produced a guide and a series of articles outlining the obligations ondirectors, board members, business owners and organisations of all sizes. Itprovides the knowledge to demonstrate good safety leadership and enables boardmembers, directors and senior management to understand current health andsafety legislation as well as the accountability for the organisation, and as individuals.

The essential principles of health and safetyHealth and safety is an essential part of organisational strategy, decision-making processes and supply chain management. This means strong andactive leadership from the top down, making your health and safety visible,and demonstrating active commitment within business decisions.

Leading health and safety at work

Developing a safe and healthyworkplace makes good businesssense. Your employees will feelmore valued and visitors will beprotected from harm.

Effective health and safety managementsystems result from strong leadershipIt’s likely to increase productivity and reducethe cost impact on your business of anydowntime from employee injuries. Everyonehas a duty to work safely and report hazards,but you still need to manage and coordinatethe overall health and safety programme.

The safety plan is a project specificdynamic documentThe safety plan is project specific, it’s not a staticdocument, it is subject to review. The review timeis always stipulated inside the plan. The safety planhelps identify hazards which could cause harm,draw out measures to manage the riskaccompanying the hazard, allocate responsibilities,and also plan emergency response in case of anyfailure in the safety management system.

– Great new venue for RISK

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Policy

Planning

RiskProfiling

Organising

Implementingyour plan

MeasuringPerformance

Investigatingaccidents/incidents

/near misses

ReviewingPerformance

Learning Lessons

PLAN

DO

CHECK

ACT

RISK Founder & Managing

Director, joined the army as a

boy soldier at 16 and worked

his way through the ranks to

RSM in 1998.

Specialising in managing, organising andinstructing training courses in diverse skills,Mike’s transition to civvy street utilised thisexperience and the military mindset to createone of the UK’s most respected specialistsafety management training organisationswith a number of ex-service personneldelivering the training.

Mike was awarded the MBE in 1998In 1998 he was awarded the MBE for hisefforts assisting and advising ex-servicepersonnel in securing suitable employment inthe commercial world.

During the last 20 years Mike has beenfocused on growing RISK and made it one ofthe UKs most respected specialist safetymanagement training organisations with anumber of ex-service personnel deliveringthe training. In addition, Mike and the ‘RISK’Team have also trained a number of studentsto IOSH and NEBOSH standards, securingthe top student across the whole of the UKand consistently achieving some of thehighest pass rates for the industry.

RISK Founder & Managing

To find out more visit

www.riskhealthandsafety.com/safetyplan

Leading health and safety at work

www.riskhealthandsafety.com www.riskhealthandsafety.comTraining Venues at London Liverpool Nottingham

Who’s responsible for health and safety at a construction site?

CITB SMSTS means taking yourresponsibilities seriously

How to make theright choice whenchoosing yourHealth & Safetytraining provider

The business case for developing aneffective safety culture

Health & Safety courses can be

provided by a variety of

organisations, from trade

associations to employer bodies.

Here’s what you need to know and askWhether you are an employer or looking forpersonal career development – choosing anappropriate health and safety training coursefor your staff is critical, but the sheer numberof providers offering their services can makeit an overwhelming decision, often leading tochoice-paralysis. Like any other business,there are great training providers and poorones – if you don’t know what questions toask, you could pay the price and get poorquality training with hidden costs.

Killer questions to ask when reviewingyour Health & Safety training provideroptions1) Who is delivering the course and what

experience do they have?2) What materials are included within the price?3) Are they the training provider or a broker?

Don’t be afraid to ask your provider to showrelevant qualifications and demonstrate theirexperience and success rates. Due diligenceis essential if you are to get the best trainingand value for money.

Can a 2 day SMSTS Refresher course,really prove competence?This is a debate on many forums and rightly so,construction is a dangerous business. Withconstruction health and safety fines around the£13 million mark, it’s the site manager whobares the greatest personal consequence.Where as a company may get fined, the sitemanager is likely to face a custodial sentence ifproven to be negligent in their responsibilities.

Do you think the SMSTS refresher issimply ticking a box?If you subscribe to a poor quality trainingprovider to ‘tick a box’ the true cost is likely tobe greater than the few pounds discount or thelack of professional scrutiny of your exam.Whilst the number of deaths has decreased inrecent years, in 2017-2018 there were 38construction worker fatalities across the UK,with another 64,000 workers having sufferednon-fatal injuries (2016-2017). These figuresare higher than in any other industry sector,with most fatal accidents occurring as a resultof falling from a height.

You face significantly higher risk if you arethe nominated site managerAndrew William Winterton, the construction sitemanager and director of Conquest Homes wasjailed for four years for manslaughter in June2017 – after a ground worker was crushed to

death at a building site where he wasresponsible for site safety. Even thoughWinterton’s lawyers claimed the director hadnever seen the finished trench and wasunaware of the danger it posed. But LadyJustice Macur and two other judges sitting atthe Court of Appeal in London dismissed hischallenge on 6 November 2018.

Smaller developments are statisticallymore likely to encounter safety breachesA high proportion of these incidents occur onsmall construction projects. The Health andSafety Executive (HSE) is well aware of thisfact, and as well as performing spot-checks onconstruction sites, targeted inspectioninitiatives are also routinely carried out.

It pays to choose a credible trainingprovider not the cheapest and easiest topass withWhen it comes to the construction industry,health and safety is about more than simplyticking boxes – it’s about avoiding potentiallyserious incidents where employees could getseverely injured. The CITB 5 day SMSTSCourse, and the CITB 2 day refresher aredesigned for anyone in a managerial orsupervisory role in the construction industry. Itmakes sure that the people responsible for staffon a construction site know everything theyneed to know about how to keep people safe.

NEBOSH and similar qualifications have long been regarded as fundamental to

those with responsibility for health, safety or environment. Ranging from dedicated

Health and Safety Officers to General Management and those who have had health

and safety incorporated into their responsibilities.

If you are a site manager considering your CITB SMSTS refresher as

simply a formality, then you need to think about the consequences of

poor quality training.

Once properly in place, however, it can be apowerful motivator that leads to big payoffs andthe groundwork for further corporate culture. Thegrowth of an effective safety culture is scientific,with stages and benchmarks for success. Itoccurs through the careful analysis of workobjectives, accident reporting, and process.

A safety culture needs to be more than avision statement and a zero-accidentapproachAt its core, workplace health and safety hasfour essential parts:• Culture – the values, assumptions, norms

and everyday behaviours of an organisation’s people

• Compliance – meeting mandatedregulatory standards

• Risk Management – processes to betteridentify risk and to control exposures

• Governance – establishing controls bywhich an organisation can validate andensure compliance standards and policies

To truly create lasting change, organisationsmust create an environment in which safety ismore than just a box to be ticked but is anattitude that makes up the very foundation ofthe company and is upheld by everyone fromfrontline workers to senior management.

Root out causes of unsafe behaviour andit will reveal the corporate cultural issuesyou need to addressThe causes of unsafe behaviour will reveal thegroundwork necessary for incident reduction.Employee motivation and behaviour isimportant, but it’s just as important to evaluatemanagement. The decline of safety within anorganisation can be compared to an ecosystemlosing balance—by the time numbers havevisibly begun to shift, the cause of the problemalready has a firm root. At this point, change isdifficult. If incidents and injuries have begun tooccur, poor attitudes and behaviour havealready become commonplace, however, byobserving and analysing to determine whatcauses these poor attitudes and behaviours wecan begin weeding them out.

Health, safety and environmental issuesbecome everyone’s responsibilityAn effective safety culture also translates to theresponsibility for health, safety and environmentalissues becoming firmly established as an integralpart of the line management function. Ratherthan being the sole domain of the safety officer,this means all levels of line management need topossess a much greater knowledge of how todevelop and implement high quality safetymanagement systems.

An effective safety culture can positively impact on your bottom line

and the productivity of your organisation. Establishing a culture of

safety within any organisation is a complex and difficult process.

Health and safety skills can improve jobsecurity and company profitsPrimarily, the courses are suitable for anyonelooking to develop health and safety skills andknowledge. If you’ve decided to take yourNEBOSH Certificate but you need to persuadeyour employer to invest time and money in gettingyou qualified to the NEBOSH Level.

Here’s 5 tangible benefits of how NEBOSHcan benefit a business1) Positive safety culture2) A more motivated and engaged workforce3) Internal safety knowledge on hand 4) Return on investment through direct

cost reduction5) Making the business more competitive

Construction sites are complex when it comes down to health and safety as there

are potentially several CDM Duty holders. Organisations or individuals can carry out

the role of more than one duty holder, provided they have the skills, knowledge,

experience and the organisational capability necessary to carry out those roles.

It’s the Site Manager who is most likely tobe held responsibleThe day-to-day responsibility for on-site healthand safety, and that’s likely to be the supervisoror manager, depending on the size of the site,the site manager’s role may vary; a sitemanager may have full responsibility for a smallconstruction site but may just have control ofonly one part of a much larger site.

SSSTS is the construction industry standardfor first line managers and SupervisorsThe SSSTS course is aimed at first linemanagers and supervisors or individualsprogressing towards a first line management orsupervisory position. The content on the SSSTScourse is about increasing understanding andawareness for new managers. The key aim is tounderstand the need for good practice.

NCRQ v NEBOSH

You wouldn’t board aplane without makingsure it wasthe right one...

Who might benefit from the NEBOSH qualifications?

If you are thinking of progressing

with a career in Health & Safety,

you need to understand the

options of qualifications and their

impact on your future choices.

Does most popular make it the mostdemanded?NCRQ claimed via Twitter, that they arereputedly now the most popular Health &Safety Diploma course provider in the UK.Maybe they are, but is this because thecourse is cheaper and easier to pass thanNEBOSH? I have been asked the ‘WhichCourse?’ question increasingly over the past12 months, and the answer I give is, that itdepends what you want to do. If you want tobecome a Health & Safety practitioner –there is only one question you need to ask…

Approximately 90% of Health & SafetyJobs request a NEBOSH qualificationIf you don’t believe me, just go to any job siteand type in health and safety and look at thejob specification – 9 times out of 10 NEBOSHwill be directly specified. What’s more, thejobs where a NEBOSH qualification isspecified offer better remuneration packages.So if you are seriously thinking about a careerin health and safety, NEBOSH courses arethe ONLY ones which offer a globallyrecognised qualification. The NEBOSHNational General Certificate in OccupationalHealth and Safety or NEBOSH NationalCertificate in Construction Health and Safetyprovide an excellent first step towardsbecoming a fully qualified health and safetyand/environmental professional.

Commit to safety. Get involved and inspire others

Board membersExecutive leadershipSupply chain partnersWorkplace leaders Involved workersContractors

Good leaders value safety and set a positive example

Management commitmentQuality communicationResponsibility & accountabilityResources & capabilityReward & recognitionInvolved employeesSafety as a priorityLeadership style

Build a safety culture through engagement

Values & beliefsRisk perceptionMotivationSafety knowledgeComplianceParticipation

Integrate safety into business practice

Relative prioritiesVisible commitmentPolicy/practice alignmentWorkplace practiceShared perception

SAFETYCULTURE

Safety leadershipat all levels

Drivers ofsafety climate

Demonstratingsafety leadership

Involve othersin safetypartnerships

ARE YOU SURE YOUR HEALTH & SAFETYKNOWLEDGE IS UP TO DATE?

To find out more visit www.riskhealthandsafety.com/safetyculture

www.riskhealthandsafety.com www.riskhealthandsafety.comTraining Venues at London Liverpool Nottingham

Who’s responsible for health and safety at a construction site?

CITB SMSTS means taking yourresponsibilities seriously

How to make theright choice whenchoosing yourHealth & Safetytraining provider

The business case for developing aneffective safety culture

Health & Safety courses can be

provided by a variety of

organisations, from trade

associations to employer bodies.

Here’s what you need to know and askWhether you are an employer or looking forpersonal career development – choosing anappropriate health and safety training coursefor your staff is critical, but the sheer numberof providers offering their services can makeit an overwhelming decision, often leading tochoice-paralysis. Like any other business,there are great training providers and poorones – if you don’t know what questions toask, you could pay the price and get poorquality training with hidden costs.

Killer questions to ask when reviewingyour Health & Safety training provideroptions1) Who is delivering the course and what

experience do they have?2) What materials are included within the price?3) Are they the training provider or a broker?

Don’t be afraid to ask your provider to showrelevant qualifications and demonstrate theirexperience and success rates. Due diligenceis essential if you are to get the best trainingand value for money.

Can a 2 day SMSTS Refresher course,really prove competence?This is a debate on many forums and rightly so,construction is a dangerous business. Withconstruction health and safety fines around the£13 million mark, it’s the site manager whobares the greatest personal consequence.Where as a company may get fined, the sitemanager is likely to face a custodial sentence ifproven to be negligent in their responsibilities.

Do you think the SMSTS refresher issimply ticking a box?If you subscribe to a poor quality trainingprovider to ‘tick a box’ the true cost is likely tobe greater than the few pounds discount or thelack of professional scrutiny of your exam.Whilst the number of deaths has decreased inrecent years, in 2017-2018 there were 38construction worker fatalities across the UK,with another 64,000 workers having sufferednon-fatal injuries (2016-2017). These figuresare higher than in any other industry sector,with most fatal accidents occurring as a resultof falling from a height.

You face significantly higher risk if you arethe nominated site managerAndrew William Winterton, the construction sitemanager and director of Conquest Homes wasjailed for four years for manslaughter in June2017 – after a ground worker was crushed to

death at a building site where he wasresponsible for site safety. Even thoughWinterton’s lawyers claimed the director hadnever seen the finished trench and wasunaware of the danger it posed. But LadyJustice Macur and two other judges sitting atthe Court of Appeal in London dismissed hischallenge on 6 November 2018.

Smaller developments are statisticallymore likely to encounter safety breachesA high proportion of these incidents occur onsmall construction projects. The Health andSafety Executive (HSE) is well aware of thisfact, and as well as performing spot-checks onconstruction sites, targeted inspectioninitiatives are also routinely carried out.

It pays to choose a credible trainingprovider not the cheapest and easiest topass withWhen it comes to the construction industry,health and safety is about more than simplyticking boxes – it’s about avoiding potentiallyserious incidents where employees could getseverely injured. The CITB 5 day SMSTSCourse, and the CITB 2 day refresher aredesigned for anyone in a managerial orsupervisory role in the construction industry. Itmakes sure that the people responsible for staffon a construction site know everything theyneed to know about how to keep people safe.

NEBOSH and similar qualifications have long been regarded as fundamental to

those with responsibility for health, safety or environment. Ranging from dedicated

Health and Safety Officers to General Management and those who have had health

and safety incorporated into their responsibilities.

If you are a site manager considering your CITB SMSTS refresher as

simply a formality, then you need to think about the consequences of

poor quality training.

Once properly in place, however, it can be apowerful motivator that leads to big payoffs andthe groundwork for further corporate culture. Thegrowth of an effective safety culture is scientific,with stages and benchmarks for success. Itoccurs through the careful analysis of workobjectives, accident reporting, and process.

A safety culture needs to be more than avision statement and a zero-accidentapproachAt its core, workplace health and safety hasfour essential parts:• Culture – the values, assumptions, norms

and everyday behaviours of an organisation’s people

• Compliance – meeting mandatedregulatory standards

• Risk Management – processes to betteridentify risk and to control exposures

• Governance – establishing controls bywhich an organisation can validate andensure compliance standards and policies

To truly create lasting change, organisationsmust create an environment in which safety ismore than just a box to be ticked but is anattitude that makes up the very foundation ofthe company and is upheld by everyone fromfrontline workers to senior management.

Root out causes of unsafe behaviour andit will reveal the corporate cultural issuesyou need to addressThe causes of unsafe behaviour will reveal thegroundwork necessary for incident reduction.Employee motivation and behaviour isimportant, but it’s just as important to evaluatemanagement. The decline of safety within anorganisation can be compared to an ecosystemlosing balance—by the time numbers havevisibly begun to shift, the cause of the problemalready has a firm root. At this point, change isdifficult. If incidents and injuries have begun tooccur, poor attitudes and behaviour havealready become commonplace, however, byobserving and analysing to determine whatcauses these poor attitudes and behaviours wecan begin weeding them out.

Health, safety and environmental issuesbecome everyone’s responsibilityAn effective safety culture also translates to theresponsibility for health, safety and environmentalissues becoming firmly established as an integralpart of the line management function. Ratherthan being the sole domain of the safety officer,this means all levels of line management need topossess a much greater knowledge of how todevelop and implement high quality safetymanagement systems.

An effective safety culture can positively impact on your bottom line

and the productivity of your organisation. Establishing a culture of

safety within any organisation is a complex and difficult process.

Health and safety skills can improve jobsecurity and company profitsPrimarily, the courses are suitable for anyonelooking to develop health and safety skills andknowledge. If you’ve decided to take yourNEBOSH Certificate but you need to persuadeyour employer to invest time and money in gettingyou qualified to the NEBOSH Level.

Here’s 5 tangible benefits of how NEBOSHcan benefit a business1) Positive safety culture2) A more motivated and engaged workforce3) Internal safety knowledge on hand 4) Return on investment through direct

cost reduction5) Making the business more competitive

Construction sites are complex when it comes down to health and safety as there

are potentially several CDM Duty holders. Organisations or individuals can carry out

the role of more than one duty holder, provided they have the skills, knowledge,

experience and the organisational capability necessary to carry out those roles.

It’s the Site Manager who is most likely tobe held responsibleThe day-to-day responsibility for on-site healthand safety, and that’s likely to be the supervisoror manager, depending on the size of the site,the site manager’s role may vary; a sitemanager may have full responsibility for a smallconstruction site but may just have control ofonly one part of a much larger site.

SSSTS is the construction industry standardfor first line managers and SupervisorsThe SSSTS course is aimed at first linemanagers and supervisors or individualsprogressing towards a first line management orsupervisory position. The content on the SSSTScourse is about increasing understanding andawareness for new managers. The key aim is tounderstand the need for good practice.

NCRQ v NEBOSH

You wouldn’t board aplane without makingsure it wasthe right one...

Who might benefit from the NEBOSH qualifications?

If you are thinking of progressing

with a career in Health & Safety,

you need to understand the

options of qualifications and their

impact on your future choices.

Does most popular make it the mostdemanded?NCRQ claimed via Twitter, that they arereputedly now the most popular Health &Safety Diploma course provider in the UK.Maybe they are, but is this because thecourse is cheaper and easier to pass thanNEBOSH? I have been asked the ‘WhichCourse?’ question increasingly over the past12 months, and the answer I give is, that itdepends what you want to do. If you want tobecome a Health & Safety practitioner –there is only one question you need to ask…

Approximately 90% of Health & SafetyJobs request a NEBOSH qualificationIf you don’t believe me, just go to any job siteand type in health and safety and look at thejob specification – 9 times out of 10 NEBOSHwill be directly specified. What’s more, thejobs where a NEBOSH qualification isspecified offer better remuneration packages.So if you are seriously thinking about a careerin health and safety, NEBOSH courses arethe ONLY ones which offer a globallyrecognised qualification. The NEBOSHNational General Certificate in OccupationalHealth and Safety or NEBOSH NationalCertificate in Construction Health and Safetyprovide an excellent first step towardsbecoming a fully qualified health and safetyand/environmental professional.

Commit to safety. Get involved and inspire others

Board membersExecutive leadershipSupply chain partnersWorkplace leaders Involved workersContractors

Good leaders value safety and set a positive example

Management commitmentQuality communicationResponsibility & accountabilityResources & capabilityReward & recognitionInvolved employeesSafety as a priorityLeadership style

Build a safety culture through engagement

Values & beliefsRisk perceptionMotivationSafety knowledgeComplianceParticipation

Integrate safety into business practice

Relative prioritiesVisible commitmentPolicy/practice alignmentWorkplace practiceShared perception

SAFETYCULTURE

Safety leadershipat all levels

Drivers ofsafety climate

Demonstratingsafety leadership

Involve othersin safetypartnerships

ARE YOU SURE YOUR HEALTH & SAFETYKNOWLEDGE IS UP TO DATE?

To find out more visit www.riskhealthandsafety.com/safetyculture

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Tel: 0845 250 7329 Email: risk@rsms.co.uk Web: www.riskhealthandsafety.com

NEBOSH CoursesNEBOSH Construction

Certificate

NEBOSH Environmental

Certificate

NEBOSH Fire Certificate

NEBOSH General

Certificate

IOSH CoursesIOSH Managing Safely

IOSH Managing Safely in

Construction

IOSH Safety for Executives

and Directors

CITB CoursesCITB Achieving Behavioural

Change (ABC)

CITB Site Safety Awareness

CITB SMSTS Courses

CITB SMSTS Refresher

Courses

CITB SSSTS Courses

CITB SSSTS Refresher

Courses

For the latest Health & Safety Training Coursesvisit www.riskhealthandsafety.com

Winter 2018

www.riskhealthandsafety.com

The 9 Components of a Safety Plan

Mike Adams MBE –The Military Mindset

Union Jack Club, London Waterloo – Great new venue for RISK

RISK has relocated its Londonbased training courses to theUnion Jack Club directly oppositeWaterloo Station.Perfect location for our health and safety coursesThe location of our new London training venue is excellent, andprovides easy access which is proving to be very popular withour delegates. This is because it’s directly opposite WaterlooRailway Station and the Jubilee, Northern and Bakerloounderground lines.

Great facilities delivering above average performance“With space to stretch your legs, think or simply get a coffee, we are finding the performance of our delegates has improved.The quality of our training has always been highly respected andcommended by the accrediting bodies we represent and thedelegates we train. However, the new venue appears to havestrengthened our record of delivering industry leading training.”

Mike Adams, Managing Director.RISK & Safety Management Services Limited

Whether you are a director of a large organisation or small business, your

obligations to health and safety are binding. Get it wrong and the best

outcome could be the company bears the cost of an HSE intervention,

and possibly a fine. Worst case scenario is that you would be prosecuted

personally and could face a significant custodial sentence.

A guide to help you understand your responsibilitiesRISK has produced a guide and a series of articles outlining the obligations ondirectors, board members, business owners and organisations of all sizes. Itprovides the knowledge to demonstrate good safety leadership and enables boardmembers, directors and senior management to understand current health andsafety legislation as well as the accountability for the organisation, and as individuals.

The essential principles of health and safetyHealth and safety is an essential part of organisational strategy, decision-making processes and supply chain management. This means strong andactive leadership from the top down, making your health and safety visible,and demonstrating active commitment within business decisions.

Leading health and safety at work

Developing a safe and healthyworkplace makes good businesssense. Your employees will feelmore valued and visitors will beprotected from harm.

Effective health and safety managementsystems result from strong leadershipIt’s likely to increase productivity and reducethe cost impact on your business of anydowntime from employee injuries. Everyonehas a duty to work safely and report hazards,but you still need to manage and coordinatethe overall health and safety programme.

The safety plan is a project specificdynamic documentThe safety plan is project specific, it’s not a staticdocument, it is subject to review. The review timeis always stipulated inside the plan. The safety planhelps identify hazards which could cause harm,draw out measures to manage the riskaccompanying the hazard, allocate responsibilities,and also plan emergency response in case of anyfailure in the safety management system.

– Great new venue for RISK

1

2

3

45

6

7

8

9

Policy

Planning

RiskProfiling

Organising

Implementingyour plan

MeasuringPerformance

Investigatingaccidents/incidents

/near misses

ReviewingPerformance

Learning Lessons

PLAN

DO

CHECK

ACT

RISK Founder & Managing

Director, joined the army as a

boy soldier at 16 and worked

his way through the ranks to

RSM in 1998.

Specialising in managing, organising andinstructing training courses in diverse skills,Mike’s transition to civvy street utilised thisexperience and the military mindset to createone of the UK’s most respected specialistsafety management training organisationswith a number of ex-service personneldelivering the training.

Mike was awarded the MBE in 1998In 1998 he was awarded the MBE for hisefforts assisting and advising ex-servicepersonnel in securing suitable employment inthe commercial world.

During the last 20 years Mike has beenfocused on growing RISK and made it one ofthe UKs most respected specialist safetymanagement training organisations with anumber of ex-service personnel deliveringthe training. In addition, Mike and the ‘RISK’Team have also trained a number of studentsto IOSH and NEBOSH standards, securingthe top student across the whole of the UKand consistently achieving some of thehighest pass rates for the industry.

RISK Founder & Managing

To find out more visit

www.riskhealthandsafety.com/safetyplan

Leading health and safety at work