SOM - Safety Officer (Mining)

Duration

Five Days in the classroom or up to 90 days for distance learning.

Overview

Designed for Safety Officers in the Mining Sector.

Section 1 - Occupational Health and Safety

1. Mine Health and Safety Act

  • Generic Structure
  • Definition: Reasonably Practicable
  • Staffing with Regard to Health and Safety
  • Health and Safety Training
  • Assessing and responding to risk
  • Employee rights to information
  • Manufacturer and Supplier duties
  • Employee Duties
  • Employee Rights
  • Health and Safety Reps and Committees
  • Inspector’s powers
  • Legal Proceedings and offenses
  • Maximum fines and imprisonment
  • Explosive regulations
  • Fires and Explosions
  • General Machinery Regulations
  • Protection of the surface and workings
  • Response to rescue
  • Coal mine Practices
  • Reporting accidents and dangerous occurrences

2. Housekeeping practices and Personal Protective Equipment

  • Basic Causes of accidents
  • Occupational Safety
  • Common Hazards
  • Safety Precautions 
  • Electricity
  • Working with Machinery, Plant and Tools
  • General Housekeeping
  • Personal Protective Equipment

3. Safety Procedures

  • The Importance of Procedures
  • Workplace Procedures
  • Working Safely
  • Standard - ISO 14000
  • Safety Code for Lifting
  • Stacking Articles - General Safety Regulation
  • Contingency Plans

Section 2 - Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

1. Legal and specified Requirements for Risk Assessments

  • Explain the Continuous Risk Assessment Process
  • Name the Relevant Documentation
  • Name the Hazards and Risks
  • Explain the Importance of Conducting Continuous Risk Assessments

2. Prepare to Conduct a Continuous Risk Assessments

  • Select Appropriate Documentation
  • Evaluate Various Physical and Environmental Conditions
  • Verify the People, Tools and Materials Required
  • Explain the Consequences of non-Compliance

3. Prepare to Conduct a Continuous Risk Assessments

  • Correctly conduct hazard identification
  • Systematically identify significant hazards
  • Complete relevant documentation

4.Initiate Remedial Action and Follow-up

  • Implement remedial action for hazards
  • Implement follow-up action
  • Explain the consequences of non-compliance to procedures

Section 3 - Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Disease Act

1. Purpose of the COID ACT

  • The COID Act
  • The Compensation Commissioner
  • Compensation Board
  • The Compensation Fund

2. Right to Compensation

  • What is Worker's Compensation
  • What is an accident

3. Employer Obligations

  • Who contributes to the Fund
  • Mutual Associations
  • Assessment Fees
  • When are Employers required to submit their return of earnings
  • Contractors

4. Procedures for Reporting Injuries and Diseases

  • Notice of accident under the COIDA 
  • Reporting and recording of Occupational Injuries and Diseases under the OHSA

5. Classes of Compensation Payments and Calculation of Earnings

  • Compensation that may be claimed
  • Compensation of disability is paid either as a pension or lump sum
  • Death Benefits
  • Medical expenses and transport of injured employee
  • Increased compensation
  • Compensation to employee previously in receipt of compensation
  • Calculating earnings
  • Periodical Payments

6. Rules - Inquiries, Fines and Penalties

  • Compensation rules
  • Compensation may not form part of an estate
  • Lapse of right to benefit
  • Inquiry by the commissioner into an accident
  • False statements
  • Fines and Penalties
  • Notice of formal hearings
  • Objection against decision of the Commissioner

7. Compensation Documentation

  • Injuries on Duty (IOD)
  • Occupational Diseases
  • Directions to medical practitioner/chiropractor/hospital
  • Tariff of fees in respect of Medical Aid
  • Claims with the Compensation Fund
  • Employer Reports
  • Employee Reports
  • Medical Reports

8. Investigations

  • General Information Required
  • Checklist for Injuries on Duty (IOD)
  • Checklist for Occupational Diseases
  • Reporting and Investigating Incidents
  • Reporting of Occupational Injuries and Diseases
  • Reporting of procedures
  • Recording of Incidents

9. Poor Performance Procedures

  • Incapacity: Ill health or injury

Section 4 - Incident and Accident Investigation

1. Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

  • Hazard Groups
  • Hazard Sources
  • Methods for identifying hazards
  • Risk assessment
  • Risk assessment process
  • Occupational Risk Profiles 
  • Implementing risk control measures
  • Hierarchy of Control
  • Health and Safety Programme

2. Workplace Inspections

  • Workplace inspections
  • Types of inspections
  • Role of inspections
  • Process for workplace inspections

3. Accident Investigation

  • Accidents in the Workplace
  • Unsafe work practice and conditions
  • Elements of business
  • Cost of Incidents
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Occupational Hygiene
  • Housekeeping
  • Accident Reporting and Investigation
  • Setting up interviews and meetings to gather relevant OHS information
  • Conduct Investigations

Section 5 - Emergency Co-ordinator

1. Emergency Planning

  • Chain of command
  • Duties of the Emergency Co-ordinator
  • Emergency Team
  • Alarm and Warning System 
  • Communication System
  • Shut Down Procedure
  • Evacuation
  • Assembly points
  • Co-ordinate Security Operations
  • Enforce Policies and Plans 
  • Alerting Emergency Services

2. Evacuations

  • Types of Evacuation
  • Mobility Impaired Persons 
  • Evacuation drills in the event of a bomb threat
  • Refusal to Comply with Evacuation Drills
  • Golden Rules for Evacuation
  • Standard Operating Procedures
  • Victim Support
  • Medical Support

3. Site Inspection, Preparation and Drills

  • Alarms
  • Emergency Assembly Points and Routes
  • Fire Extinguishers
  • Emergency Evacuation Practice Drills
  • Sample Procedures

Section 6 - Fire Fighting in the Workplace

1. Procedures for dealing with fires in the Workplace

  • Identify fire risks in the Workplace
  • Establish a fire defence policy
  • Establish prevention procedures
  • Understand the role of a fire responder 
  • Understand fire prevention 
  • Understand the procedures for employees in the event of a fire
  • Understand how to hand over the situation to appropriate personnel

2. Types and Classes of fires

  • Fire and the phases of fire
  • Heat and Combustion
  • Growth and spread of fire
  • Fire extinguishing methods
  • Classes of fire

3. Types of Equipment

  • Identify the types and uses of portable fire extinguishers
  • Fire hoses

4. Reporting and Recording

  • Reporting and recording on fire incidents

Section 7 - Safe Work Procedures

  • Introduction to Safe work practices
  • Compressed air
  • Electrical safety
  • Confined spaces
  • Hand and power tools
  • Ladders
  • Maintenance and Inspection
  • Lockout and Tag system
  • Stacking and storing
  • Types of Goods and Stacking Practices
  • General Safe Work Practices

Section 8 - Practical Management

1. Planning

  • Introduction to planning
  • The nature of planning
  • Why managers don’t plan.
  • The benefits of planning
  • Strategic vs. Operational planning
  • An Action Planning process
  • Maintenance and Inspection

2. Correcting Performance

  • Responding to Unacceptable Performance
  • Responding to Dependable Performance

3. Problem Solving and Decision Making

  • Introduction to problem solving and decision making.
  • A problem solving and decision-making technique.

4. Basic Training Methodology

  • Education, Training and Development
  • On-the-Job Training
  • Objectives of on-the-job training.
  • Procedure for on-the-job training.