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World Safety and Health Day

SO1 Course Outline

MODULE 1: OVERVIEW (1 hr)
  • Importance of OSH
  • Situationer using the Philippines Data from PSA & DOLE Inspection Data
  • Salient features of OSH Legislations
    1. RA 11058 and its IRR (DO 198-18)
    2. OSH Standards, as amended including related provisions of PD 626 and with emphasis on duties of OSH Personnel and HSC.
MODULE 2: UNDERSTANDING OSH
(1 hr 30 mins)
  • Accident Causation Theories (ex. Domino Theory)
  • Accident Causation and Prevention
    1. Unsafe Act and Unsafe Conditions
    2. Accident Prevention
  • Benefits of having Safety and Health Practices in the Workplace
  • Safety Hazards
  • Health Hazards
  • Risks
    1. Low Risks
    2. Medium Risks
    3. High Risks
MODULE 3: KNOWING SAFETY HAZARDS AND
CONTROLS (2 hrs)
  • Housekeeping and Materials Handling and Storage
  • Machine Safety (Types, Sources and Controls)
  • Electrical Safety (Types, Sources, LOTO and Controls)

Fire Safety (Elements of Fire, Prevention and Controls)

Chemical Safety

MODULE 4: HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION, RISK
ASSESSMENT AND CONTROL (HIRAC) (2 hrs)
  • Key steps in recognizing and identifying hazards
    1. Safety Hazards
    2. Health Hazards
  • Risk Assessment and Prioritization
  • Application of Controls (Engineering, Administrative & PPE)
MODULE 5: WORKPLACE EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS (1 hr)
  • Roles of OSH Personnel
  • Responses during Emergency

Conduct of Emergency Drills (i.e. Earthquake Drill/Fire Drill/Bomb Threat)

MODULE 6: ADMINISTRATIVE OSH
REQUIREMENTS (30 mins)
  • Reportorial Requirements and Prescriptive Period of Submission (R1020, AEDR, WAIR, AMR, RSO, OSH Committee Report)
  • Mandatory OSH Programs
  • Penalties for violations
MODULE 7: CAPACITY BUILDING
OF TRAINERS IN OSH (2 hrs)
  • Objective Setting
  • Preparing Presentation Materials
  • Basic Skills in Presentation

Commitment Setting (Re-entry Plan)

TOTAL TIME ALLOTMENT: 10 HOURS

COSH Course Outline

PRE-TRAINING ACTIVITIES
  • Registration
  • Pre-test Examinations
  • Surfacing of Expectations
  • Processing of Expectations
DAILY ACTIVITIES

Opening Activities per Session (30 minutes per day)

  • Welcome the participants with a short Invocation.
  • Reminders on Zoom Use and other admin concerns.
  • Results of Leveling of Expectations.
  • Learning Roadmap.
  • Introduction of the Speaker.

Closing Activities per Session

  • Q and A
  • Wrap-up of Session
  • Reminders and Announcements
MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION
  • Discusses data on OSH specific to the industry.
  • Implications of the new law on OSH to the industry.
  • Explains the most common types of construction works (horizontal, vertical and mixed/simultaneous).
  • Defines and differentiates between hazards and risks;
  • Classifies hazards into occupational safety (OS) and occupational health (OH) hazards.

    Workshop 1: Identification of Hazards in the Construction Industry.

  • A review of the basic common work accident causation theories. (Heinrich’s Domino Theory and Bird’s Loss Causation Theory)
  • Immediate causes of accidents (unsafe acts and conditions).
MODULE 2: PRE-CONSTRUCTIONCONCERNS
  • Discusses commonly used methods and techniques of controlled demolition with emphasis on safety planning and procedure such as: types of demolition works, principal hazards, procedures, equipment used and controls including relevant provisions from the OSHS.
  • Discusses types of excavation works.
  • Precautions before, on and during excavations
  • Hazards in excavation works and general safety guidelines to excavation
MODULE 3: COMMON ON-SITE CONCERNS
  • Can help learners determine the basic essential information to job contractors/employers to ensure health and safety on construction sites.
  • Identify the basic facilities needed to ensure safety, health and welfare of employees ,ex. signages, facilities-mess hall, CR, barracks if needed, training center, TBM area; perimeter fence; entrance and exits and guard stations.

Will help learners identify the following:

  1. hazards associated in the use of scaffoldings and other temporary structures;
  2. the different major types of temporary structures (scaffolds, gondolas, ladders); and
  3. the safety requirements for the safe use of scaffoldings and other temporary structures
  • Discusses the importance, types and requirements for worker fall protection as: a) fall protection system; b) fall arrest system; and c) railings and platforms.
  • Video showing: Proper Donning and Doffing of a Body Harness (approx. 5 min)
  • Discusses importance, types and requirements for the safe use of cranes, construction elevator and other lifting equipment.
  • Discusses lifting plan.
  • Discusses types, uses and potential hazards of each type of heavy equipment; and guidelines for their safe and optimum operation.
  • Video showing of 3rd party inspection of const equipment (approx..5 min).
  • Discusses the types of hand and portable power tools commonly used in construction work.
  • The hazards posed by such tools.
  • The types of control measures to lessen or eliminate accidents associated with them.
MODULE 4: SPECIAL CONCERNS
  • Assist learners identify the common OH health exposures and diseases associated with each; their routes of entry
  • As well as the personal and workplace measures for protection and prevention.
  • Explains the different mandatory and other significant OH exposures as well as their respective enabling laws and issuances.
  • Assist learners identify common environmental and waste products generated by construction work; both their means of disposal based on specific government issuances and good practices.
  • Assist learners identify the types of PPEs and their uses.
  • The appropriateness of PPEs for hazard protection and the limitations of PPEs.
  • Video Showing on the common PPEs used in the industry .(approx.. 5 min)
  • Guidance to help prevent workplace exposures to Acute Respiratory Disease (COVID -19) Preparedness, Response and Control Plans.
MODULE 5: MONITORING AND EVALUATING
OSH PERFORMANCE
  • Will assist learners identify the different types of communication tools commonly used in the industry.
  • When they are applicable and some tips on their effective use.
  • Workshop 3: Identification of Topics for discussion in TBM or General Assembly.
  • Discusses the importance of inspection to the OSH program as a whole.
  • Identify the elements of an effective safety inspection.
  • Discuss the types of inspection.
  • Identify personnel who are best capable to conduct safety inspections.
  • Workshop 4: Preparation of Construction Checklist Per Area of Work.
  • Explains the need for accident Investigations and its benefits.
  • Provides tips for effective conduct of complete accident investigations.
  • Identifies the tools necessary to properly complete accident investigations, including the government report requirements.
  • Workshop 5: Practice filling up of AEDR.
  • Emergency preparedness is a well-known concept in protecting workers’ safety and health. Putting together a comprehensive emergency action plan involves conducting a hazard assessment to determine what, if any, physical or chemical hazards inside or from outside the workplaces could cause an emergency.
  • Discusses the elements of an OSH program based on DOLE D.O. 13, Series of 1998.
  • Tips on the formulation/development of COSH program.
  • The monitoring and evaluation of existing COSH program.
  • Workshop 6: Formulate a draft OSH Program for a construction company.
MODULE 6: SALIENT POINTS OF MAJOR
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
  • Discusses salient points of the new law and its IRR especially those that pertain to the construction industry

Re-entry Planning (30 mins)

Post Training Exam

Post Training Evaluation

TOTAL TIME ALLOTMENT: 40 HOURS

Opening and Closing activities at end of each webinar is allotted a total of 30 min. Technical discussions per day is calculated at 3.5 hours for a total of 4 hours per day for 10 days.