Post Graduate Diploma in Safety and Security

Security refers to the protection of an agency’s staff from deliberate threats or acts of violence. Protection refers to the risk of violence against civilian noncombatant populations that are not an agency’s staff. Safety refers to accidental hazards such as road accidents, fire, diseases and natural disasters.

Course outline

INTRODUCTION

Safety management fundamentals

Organizational safety culture

State safety programmes

Safety management systems

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Definitions and diverse forms

Occupational Health and Safety Management systems: conditions for success and barriers to performance

Barriers to Success: Special Implementation Difficulties

Lessons from Quality Management for Evaluating and Measuring OHSMS Performance

Measuring OHSMS Performance

Conclusion

SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR HUMANITARIAN WORKERS

Introduction

Differing perceptions of risk

Gender and security

Staff care: Disparate levels of security capacity and support

Organizational policies and approaches to duty of care

Consultation and participation

National aid organizations and the need for responsible partnership

Humanitarian principles: Operational interpretations and applications by national aid actors

SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Introduction

Role of the safety management system

General requirements of the SMS

Elements of the safety management system

Establishing the SMS

Performance standards for the SMS

Critical Success Factors for SMS

From security management to risk management

 

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