Life is full of risk. In this free course, Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction, 'risk' describes the probability and consequences of harm or, at worst, disaster. Risk management involves many stakeholders and integrated management systems help to ensure that safety, quality, environmental and business risks are all managed correctly. The course also looks at emergency preparedness, that is, the management of emergencies and disasters.
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
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Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Safety, health and environmental management – a risky business!
- 1 Safety, health and environmental management – a risky business!
- 2 Setting priorities
- 2 Setting priorities
- 3 Analysing incidents
- 3 Analysing incidents
- 3.1 Types of incident
- 3.1.1 The cause
- 3.2 Multiple causes
- 4 Integrated management
- 4 Integrated management
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.1.1 A hierarchy of causes
- 4.2 Why integrate management systems?
- 4.2.1 Comparing the management systems
- 5 Emergency planning
- 5 Emergency planning
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Why plan?
- 5.3 Emergency planning as a formal requirement
- 5.4 Emergency planning as a public protection activity
- 5.5 Emergency planning as an organisational management function
- 5.6 Business continuity planning
- 5.7 Emergency planning – the process
- 5.7.1 Plan preparation
- 5.3.2 Plan auditing
- 5.3.3 Training, education, testing and validation
- 5.3.4 Plan testing and validation
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
