Description:

Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) is and should remain to be of paramount importance to all business owners, employers & employees in all types of industries and all sectors of businesses. By law, all places where a person works is a workplace and the WSH Act will apply.

WSH is about & concerns the safety health & welfare of everyone viz. employees, customers & visitors. The WSH Act holds the employer & his management including Chief Executives & Directors liable in ensuring workers’ safety and health.  

The management including Chief Executives & Directors are also responsible for proving that they had exercised due diligence to prevent workplace incidents as they set the safety culture of their organisation.

But until this Approved Code Of Practice (ACOP), there were no specific guidelines of advisory of how to do it

The ACOP is relevant for all organizations & companies’ management including CEOs & Directors, regardless of industry and organization size. Further, workers & managers are also encouraged to know and understand what is expected of their management including CEOs & Directors, who lead their organizations.

Moving forward, all Managers & Executives including Project Managers as well as HR teams will have to play a greater role to ensure compliance with the ACOP as they have to work with their CEOs & Directors to establish a clear and updated WSH Policy and Standards.

As such it is important that businesses owners, employers, bosses, directors, managers, HR managers and even employees to be fully acquainted with WSH requirements, duties & responsibilities and comply with the laws.

This course will discuss the ACOP & related FAQs and their impact on top management, CEOs, Directors and even managers & executives. The course will also provide pointers to comply with ACOP and to minimize if not, contain any possible legal liability.

Course Objective:

1. To enhance participants’ awareness of the key aspects of workplace safety & health (WSH) laws

2. To provide an understanding of the significance & details of the ACOP on management including CEOs & Directors’ WSH duties.

3. To discuss how CEs, Directors & Top Management can demonstrate leadership in improving WSH performance & management

4. To provide pointers to comply with the ACOP & minimize if not, contain any possible legal liability.

Who Should Attend This Course:

Business Owners, Employers, CEOs, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, employees or anyone who is concerned or dealing with health & safety matters in organisations, companies, industries and other workplaces

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will appreciate and be able to evaluate the impact of related WSH laws on their roles as Business Owners, Employers, CEOs, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers or Employees in relation to WSH legal requirements in their workplace.

Participants will acquire greater clarity & deeper understanding of the significance & details of the ACOP on management including CEOs & Directors’ WSH duties.

Participants will learn how as CEO, Director, top management, business owner, employer, Consultant, HR manager & executive or manager, they can demonstrate leadership in improving WSH performance & management

Participants will understand how to comply with the ACOP & thereby minimize if not contain any possible legal liability.

Course Outline

• Introduction
• CEOs, Directors & Management’s WSH duties & other related legal requirements
• Why ACOP and what is its purpose?
• ACOP’s key points
• CEOs, Directors & Management to demonstrate leadership through four principles
• The Seventeen Measures that CEOs, Directors & Top Management can implement in improving WSH performance & management
• Available resources to assist Directors, CEOs & Managers in discharging their duties
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Possible criminal liabilities & penalties
• Pointers to comply the ACOP & contain or minimize any possible legal liabilities
• Questions & Answers

Trainer’s Profile

You will hear from a speaker who is has about 30 continuous years of experience as a criminal & civil litigation lawyer in private practice under his own law firm before he retired from active legal practice.

Also, Mr. Lee has extensive industrial, projects, safety health & environment management experience as a practising engineer and senior project manager working for more than 12 years in the energy, marine, oil & gas industry before he switched to law