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GUIDELINES ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING

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GUIDELINES ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING 1. The importance of training 1.1. Occupational safety and health training contributes to the promotion of a positive safety and health culture, the prevention of injuries and ill-health and better management of safety and health at work. It ensures that the enterprise has competent personnel with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes to perform their work safely. It also improves productivity and enhances overall competitiveness of the enterprise. 1.2. Employers, employees, Safety and Health Officers and Safety and Health Committee members should fully understand the importance of occupational safety and health training. 2. Main obligations under occupational safety and health legislation 2.1. Every employer should: (a) so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure the safety, health and welfare at work of all his employees by providing information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the safety and health at work of his employees; (b) so far as is practicable, ensure that any employee is provided with adequate safety and health information, instruction and training on being recruited into the employer’s undertaking; on being exposed to new or increased risks as a result of a transfer or change of responsibilities; or on the introduction of new plant or a change relating to any process already in use within the place of work; (c) ensure that no young person works at any dangerous machine unless he has received sufficient training in line with the provision of the Act; (d) ensure that no person operates a lifting machine unless he has been trained and is competent to operate that machine; (e) ensure that in every place of work, a sufficient number of employees are trained in the proper use of the means of extinguishing fire; (f) where it is not reasonably practicable to avoid the need for his employees to undertake any manual handling operations at work which involve a risk of bodily injury, provide sufficient training in the safe techniques or methods of manual lifting and handling to any employee who is required in the normal course of his work regularly to lift, carry or move loads exceeding 18 kilograms; (g) ensure that no person works on a woodworking machine unless he has been sufficiently trained;

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