Methods of evaluating training
Effective WSH competency training equips employees with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to make them competent in dealing with the safety and health aspects of their work.
With the acquired WSH competencies, employees will be in a better position to recognize potential hazardous situations, know their responsibilities under the WSH Act and know their roles in creating safe work conditions
Effective training is an administrative form of risk control and can help to reduce incidents occurring at the workplace. The effectiveness of training and the resulting level of competency should be evaluated to ensure that training programs are effective and meeting the skills and knowledge requirements of the workplace.
Training needs and WSH Competency
Every person must be aware of the HSE risks associated with their work being carried out at the workplace. Persons at work must be given reasonable practicable training, instruction and information on the measures to be taken to minimise such risks and be competent in performing their task that can impact their safety and health and the environment
An organization shall establish procedures to identify training needs and provide adequate safety training for all levels of employees including contractors. The safety training should provide management staff with the knowledge and skills necessary for organising and managing occupational safety and health programmes; line management ( supervisors & managers) with the leadership skills and knowledge to lead, implement and apply occupational safety and health activities; and workers with the knowledge ,skills and right attitudes to enable them to work safely. The training should also include personal communication techniques of shaping human behaviour and promoting safe and responsible behaviour.
Training should be based on the logical sequence of:
a)Training needs analysis- a comparison of a person’s skills level with the demands of his or her job and hence the identification of skills shortfalls. Organization shall establish procedures to identify the training needs of managers ,supervisory staff and workers to provide them with comprehensive training on in-house safety rules and regulations, statutory requirements, safe work practices, and other relevant occupational safety and health related training;
b)Training resource identification-internal and external courses;
c)Planning-the timing of courses to ensure that people are trained before they have to apply the skills
d)Administration-allocating people to initial and refresher courses and maintaining records of training completed;
e)Implementation, including releasing personnel for training;
f)Evaluation of training programmes; and
g)Monitoring to ensure that the training is achieving the planned results;
h)Review of need for refresher training to ensure competency;
Mandatory WSH Training
Stakeholders training needs analysis should take into consideration the mandatory requirements for workers, workplace safety and health officer (WSHO), Safety supervisor, safety assessors, safety auditor, scaffolding supervisor, scaffolding erector, which also formed the job related training.
The occupational safety and health personnel shall be task to compile a list of mandatory WSH training courses for the identified stakeholders based on the statutory training requirements stipulated under the factories Act and it’s subsidiary legislation.
The list shall be forwarded to the Human Resource department for their follow up on arranging the stakeholders for the required training courses with the relevant line management.
| Stakeholders | Types of Training | Course(s) Description |
| Worker | Internal Training | Safety Induction Training |
| Worker | Internal Training | Emergency Response Training |
| Worker | Job Related Training | Wearing of PPE |
| Worker | Job Related Training | Occupational First Aid |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Construction Safety Orientation Course for Workers |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Explosive Powered Tools Operator’s Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Metal Scaffold Erection Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | MEWP-Boom Lift Operator Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | MEWP-Scissor Lift Operator Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Rigger Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Safety Orientation Course ( Manhole ) for workers |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Safety Orientation Course (Tunnelling) for workers |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Safety Orientation Course for Workers (Metalworking) |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Signalmen Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Suspended Scaffold Rigger’s Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Vertical Personnel Platform Operator Course |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Workshop To Enhance the Safety of Crane Operation |
| Worker | Mandatory Training | Construction Safety Orientation Course for Workers |
| Supervisor | Internal Training | Safety Induction Training |
| Supervisor | Internal Training | Emergency Response Training |
| Supervisor | Job Related Training | Wearing of PPE |
| Supervisor | Job Related Training | Occupational First Aid |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Lifting Supervisors Safety Course |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Basic Industrial Safety and Health Course for Supervisors |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Building Construction Supervisors Safety Course |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Building Construction Safety Supervisors (Tunnelling) Course |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Formwork Safety Course for Supervisors |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Metal Scaffold Erection Course for Supervisors |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Oil/Petrochemical Industry Safety Course for Supervisors |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Safety Instruction Course (Manhole) for Supervisors |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Suspended Scaffold Supervisor Course |
| Supervisor | Mandatory Training | Work At Height Course for Supervisor |
| Project Manager | Internal Training | Safety Induction Training |
| Project Manager | Internal Training | Emergency Response Training |
| Project Manager | Job Related Training | Wearing Of PPE |
| Project Manager | Job Related Training | Occupational First Aid |
| Project Manager | Mandatory Training | Construction Safety Course for Project Managers |
| Project Manager | Mandatory Training | Design for Safety Coordinator (formerly Project Safety & Health Coordinator Course) |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Advanced Certificate In Workplace Safety & Health |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Confined Space Safety Assessor Course |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Graduate Certificate In Workplace Safety and Health |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Industrial Audiometry Course |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Industrial Noise Control Course |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Manhole Safety Assessors Course |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Noise Monitoring Course |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Occupational First Aid Course |
| Occupational Safety & Health Personnel | Mandatory Training | Specialist Diploma In Workplace Safety & Health |
