Course description
The EUSR Safety, Health and Environmental Awareness (or SHEA) schemes are an excellent way to provide a uniform approach to health, safety and environmental awareness within your company. The SHEA Telecommunications one-day course is essential training for all operatives who require access to operational sites, both permanent and temporary. It has been developed through careful consultation with the industry to give operatives an excellent understanding of key workplace health, safety and environmental issues.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
All individuals requiring access to operational sites within the telecommunications industry, including supervisors and managers
Prerequisites
There are no pre-course requirements for this course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the legal frameworks with regards to health, safety and the environment, as well as their practical application in the workplace setting, including their own personal responsibilities and those of their employer.
- Understand key environmental considerations in the workplace, and the employees’ impact on the sustainability of their workplace environment, including how to manage waste and hazardous materials.
- Identify and control workplace risks and hazards and understand their own role in preventing them through a range of proactive health and safety behaviours in line with CSCS requirements.
- Understand the processes and procedures required to work in the highway; this includes both public and private environments and creating a safe working environment through safe systems of work. Know what to do in the case of an emergency.
- Describe the local telecoms cable infrastructure and the way in which it is organised, including types of telecommunications cables and the local access network.
- Explain the term ‘occupational health’, identify a range of occupational health hazards within the workplace and be able to minimise their impact.
- Understand emergency response behaviours, the role of reporting, inspection and enforcement of health & safety in the workplace. Understand the impact on employee and employer of both poor/improving health and safety in the workplace
Training Course Content
The scheme consists of 7 modules -6 core and 1 specific to telecommunications industry - which cover the following health, safety and environment learning outcomes:
- Understanding our workplace responsibilities
- Understanding the effects of our work on the environment
- Identifying and controlling risks
- Common hazards in the workplace
- Highway working and excavations (telecommunication industry specific
- Occupational health hazards
- Responding to emergencies
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