SAFEoperator
Background to SAFEoperator
The 1-day SAFEoperator course is designed to follow on the SAFEsupervisor course – to ensure that the risk control skills are transferred to the work place.
Key words are Risk Perception, Pro-Action and Worker Involvement:
Risk perception is defined as “recognising a danger” in the environment or when doing a task. Research found that in as much as 30-40% of accidents, the person was unable to recognise the danger. This has serious implications for risk management, because very little is done to provide workers with this unique skill. Traditional approaches such as awareness campaigns, induction and instructions about dangers are not very effective. The SAFEoperator course achieves this in a unique way: By a process of creative observation training and risk analysis by the participants. While operators are generally quite skilled to identify “hazards”, the identification of risk is a distinctly different skill.
Risky Behaviour in the organisation is the critical level of exposure Through the SAFEoperator, participants identify risks, analyse them, but also provide recommendations to management on priorities and possible actions to eliminate them. Participants also identify positive safety practices, protection and behaviour. SAFEoperator is pro-active analysis of possible accidents, as against the reactive analysis of real accidents.
In the SAFEoperator course, the participants are exposed to the various skills and knowledge that sustain the above process.
Training Objectives
At the end of the program participants will be able to:
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