Assessing Risk of your Workplace

Date: 30 October 2025 (Thu)

Time: 14:30 – 16:30

Venue: R503

 

Course objectives:

• This course equips attendees with hazard identification and risk assessment skills so as to facilitate effective health and safety risk management in the workplace.

 

Target:

• Personnel who are responsible for assessing workplace risks should take this training. Other personnel who are interested are also welcome.

 

The Health & Safety Committee has launched a risk assessment program which requires all departments to assess risks of their workplaces using a risk assessment form, and submit a risk register to HSO. This training is designed to enable the departments to perform this assessment.

Manual Handling Health and Safety

Course objectives:

• This course aims at introducing the proper manual handling and lifting methods, basic knowledge on musculoskeletal problems associated with improper manual handling and preventive measures.

 

Target:

• All PolyU staff members who want to learn more about manual handling.

Selection and Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Course objectives:

• Provide basic knowledge on the selection, use, storage, and maintenance of common PPE in workshops and labs
• Emphasize correct methods of wearing and applying PPE
• Feature live demonstration for proper PPE usage

 

Target:

• All staff members who need to use PPE in the workshops or laboratories.