Event Overview

The need to manage the occupational risks of your business is your responsibility, and effectively auditing those risks and understanding the legal interpretation of risk auditing is crucial to that role. Occupational Risk Management taking place at Villa Rotana Hotel from 22 – 26 February 2009 will show you how to structure your occupational health and safety systems and how to effectively meet your organisation’s corporate responsibilities and auditing requirements.

Your expert course director, Roy Bedson, has over 30 years experience in the management of occupational related risk and has, with IIR, designed this course to provide you with an understanding of the principles of the strategic auditing of health and safety management systems, and a grounding in the skills required when undertaking effective audits. The course is also aimed at contributing and developing professional skills in risk management practitioners.

The course will show you how to go about:
• Linking effective occupational risk management auditing systems and practices to
  business plans and corporate objectives
• Maintaining the credibility of your business auditing system
• Auditing risk management systems in conjunction with business continuity plans
• Validating the competency of auditors and accreditation bodies
• Detailing content of the main occupational systems
• Using auditing practices as a ‘risk transfer tool’
• Auditing the ‘safety culture’ element of organisations
• Applying specialist risk assessment tools in support of occupational risk management
  systems development
• Defining the payback and identifying the benefits of effective occupational risk
  management systems
• Effecting strategic auditing techniques and the auditing process

Occupational Risk Management is a course no organisation can afford to ignore! Based on a combination of presentations and workshop sessions relating theoretical techniques with practical examples, the course will encourage your active participation throughout. You will gain hands-on experience, learning from real occupational scenarios, confirming this through auditing actual production systems which form the basis of this key management role.

Who Should Attend?

All those who wish to undertake or lead audits of OHSAS/ILO specified management systems, and those interested in the measurement of the effective implementation of occupational safety and health management systems. Also relevant for those who wish to achieve international standards with their business excellence programmes. The course has been developed specifically for the occupational risk management practitioner in the broadest terms inclusive of SHE managers/directors, maintenance managers/engineers, compliance officers/regulators, insurance assessors, process managers and occupational health professionals.