Skills

Assessing occupational risks for a workstation and a site

Identifying hazards, rating risks, prioritising actions, maintaining the risk register: this is the foundation of any prevention approach. On a mining or industrial site, this skill conditions site access as much as personal safety.

The framework that makes prevention real

Prevention becomes concrete the day every workstation has a written assessment: which hazards, what exposure, what severity, which measures are in place and which remain to be taken. That framework ranks action and makes the approach verifiable by a third party — client, inspector, insurer. The programme teaches it on real workstations from mining, energy and construction, together with the management system that sustains it over time.

Distinguish hazard from risk and rate a workstation's exposure
Maintain the risk register and update it after every change
Rank prevention measures by effectiveness and by cost
Present the assessment to a client or to an inspection

How far you go

You carry out the risk assessment of a whole site and derive from it a dated, costed prevention plan. The ambition of a skill is measured by the act it authorises, then by the volume behind it.

teaching blocks: 4
of taught instruction: 530 h
credits in total: 53
professional qualifications concerned: 4

The taught hours, block by block

The catalogue rule applies throughout: one credit stands for twenty-five hours of work, ten of them taught. These rows give the exact translation.

Teaching block	Programme	Taught hours	Year
Hazard identification and risk assessment	Health, Industrial Safety and Environment	240 h	Year 1
Regulation and responsibilities	Health, Industrial Safety and Environment	200 h	Year 1
HSE management system	Certificate in Industrial Site Safety Management	50 h	Year 1
Indicators and steering	Certificate in Industrial Site Safety Management	40 h	Year 1

Which positions it leads to

At levels 6 and 7, professional experience is part of the entry requirements.

Professional qualification	Target occupation	Level	Taught volume
Health, Safety and Environment Officer	site HSE officer	4 · Skilled employee and operative	600 h
HSE Supervisor	zone safety supervisor	5 · Senior technician and supervisor	700 h
Site HSE Manager	HSE manager — mining, energy, construction	6 · Manager and professional	800 h
Industrial Risk and HSE Director	group or multi-site HSE director	7 · Expert and executive	700 h

Durations, volumes and fees

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Programme	Level	Duration	Fees
Health, Industrial Safety and Environment	Bachelor's degree	2 years	5 400 000 GNF per year
Certificate in Industrial Site Safety Management	Professional certification	6 months	3 800 000 GNF in total

Three questions, three answers

Does this skill open a role without engineering-level training?

Yes: the HSE officer qualification sits at level 4 and is prepared over 600 taught hours. Progression to level 6 then comes through experience and the site HSE manager qualification.

Is the Guinean mining context taken into account?

The scenarios reproduce the sector's real conditions: heat, dust, subcontractor co-activity and the documentary requirements of client companies.

Does the programme prepare for client audits?

A dedicated block covers internal HSE audit and steering indicators, including assembling the evidence expected during an external inspection.

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