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Training and Health & Safety
Under Construction IIMalta Twinning Seminar
2 October 2009
Training and Health & Safety
Tonio Farrugia
O.H.S. Legislation
• Occupational Health and Safety Authority Act 2000
• 31 legal notices
• Employers required to provide information and training to safeguard employees’ health and safety
Key elements
• Duty of employer to provide information, instruction, training and supervision
• Appointment of Workers’ Health and Safety representatives.
• OHSA’s functions include education and training
Minimum H&S requirements
• Inform workers/representatives of H&S measures
• Competent persons:– Adequate qualifications– Suitable training– Experienced and skilled– OHSA to define more specific criteria
Fire-fighting
• Persons to be adequately trained and equipped
• Protective and remedial action only by trained persons
• Workers to be trained in proper use of fire-fighting equipment
General provisions
Aim to encourage:
• Exchange of information
• Consultation
• Participation
• Training
General provisions
Employers have to:
• Take all necessary measures to safeguard H&S.
• Ensure only suitably trained employees have access to dangerous areas.
• Designate competent trained person/s to assist in H&S protection
General provisions
Adequate H&S training required:
• On recruitment
• On transfer or change of job
• For new or changed equipment
• On new technology
• On new work practices
General provisions
Training to be given:
• To all workers, including temps and contract workers
• To workers representatives
• During working hours
• Paid by employer
Construction sector
• Availability of first aid and trained staff
• Lifting devices to be operated by qualified and trained workers
• Drivers or materials-handing vehicles to be specially trained
• Machinery and equipment to be operated by trained workers
Information and training
Help employers to:
• Safeguard employees H&S
• Develop positive H&S culture
• Manage H&S better
• Meet legal duties
Effective training
• Makes employees competent in H&S
• Avoids distress of accidents and ill-health
• Avoids unnecessary financial costs
• Is not just formal classroom courses.
Employers need training
Employers should:
• Be up to date on how to identify hazards and control risks
• Know where and how to get help
• Know how to consult employees / representatives on H&S issues
Managers need training
Managers and supervisors need to:
• Know employer’s expectations
• Understand company’s H&S policy
• Be trained in specific hazards of work processes
• Know how risks are to be controlled.
Employees need training
Employees and self-employed to know:
• How to work safely and without risk
• Company’s H&S policy and ways to implement it
• How to raise any H&S concerns with management
Employers obligations
Take into account workers’
• Capabilities
• Training
• Knowledge
• Experience
Employee training needs
• New recruits
• Changing jobs
• Inexperienced/young employees
• Refresher training
Outlook for Malta
• Rely on risk assessments to identify training needs
• Employers and employees to understand importance of training
• The future – incorporate H&S training in accreditation of professionals.
A Long way to go??
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