Certified Safety Officer
The PIMS Certified Safety Officer course provides comprehensive occupational health and safety training for individuals who support workplace risk management and safety performance. Safety Officers play an impo...
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Program Overview
The PIMS Certified Safety Officer course provides comprehensive occupational health and safety training for individuals who support workplace risk management and safety performance. Safety Officers play an important role in identifying hazards, assessing risks, monitoring workplace conditions and helping organisations establish effective safety-management practices.
The programme develops broad knowledge of risk assessment, safety-management systems, workplace inspections, incident investigation, emergency preparedness, employee training, occupational health and professional safety responsibilities across industries such as construction, manufacturing, logistics and oil and gas.
What You'll Learn
- Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
- Roles and responsibilities of a Safety Officer
- Workplace hazard identification
- Risk assessment and risk evaluation
- Hierarchy of risk controls
- Development of safe-working procedures
- Occupational health and safety management systems
- Safety policies, procedures and programmes
- Workplace inspection and monitoring
- Accident, incident and near-miss investigation
- Root-cause analysis
- Corrective and preventive actions
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Evacuation planning
- Basic first-aid and emergency-response awareness
- Safety training and communication
- Developing a positive workplace safety culture
- Occupational health and ergonomics
- Regulatory and compliance awareness
- Professional responsibilities and ethics
Empowering professionals with knowledge, practical understanding and stronger workplace skills.
PIMSWho Should Attend?
This PIMS programme is suitable for Safety Officers, Safety Coordinators, HSE Officers, HSE Managers, Safety Inspectors, auditors, operational managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, consultants and individuals seeking professional development in occupational health and safety.
Key Benefits
After completing the Certified Safety Officer course with PIMS, learners should be better prepared to:
- Understand key occupational health and safety principles
- Recognise hazards and evaluate workplace risks
- Select suitable preventive and protective controls
- Support safety-management system implementation
- Conduct workplace inspections and monitoring
- Participate effectively in incident investigations
- Develop corrective and preventive recommendations
- Support emergency preparedness and response planning
- Communicate HSE requirements effectively
- Support organisational compliance
- Promote a proactive workplace safety culture
- Strengthen professional knowledge for occupational safety roles
Assessment & Evaluation
After completing the PIMS course material and required module quizzes, learners may proceed to the final examination.
- The examination is open book and must be completed within 2 hours.
- A minimum score of 65% is required to pass.
- Learners who do not pass may retake the examination.
- A maximum of three examination attempts is permitted within a 48-hour period.
- After three unsuccessful attempts, learners must wait 48 hours before another attempt.
- Learners should review the course material during the waiting period.
- Once the examination has been passed, it cannot be retaken solely to improve the score.
- Learners must successfully complete all required course assessments to complete the programme.
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