SHEA Gas (Safety Health & Environmental Awareness) Initial Training

• To ensure learners understand their workplace responsibilities and the legal framework surrounding health and safety
• To develop awareness of how work activities can affect the environment and how to minimise this impact
• To provide learners with the skills to identify and control risks in the workplace
• To promote recognition of common hazards found in operational environments and how to manage them
• To build understanding of occupational health hazards relevant to gas industry work
• To equip learners with the knowledge to respond effectively to emergencies
• To develop specific knowledge of safe working practices in the highway and during excavations
• To provide understanding of the safety considerations around pressure regulating installations
• To ensure learners understand how to maintain safety while working on premises
• To enable learners to gain the EUSR SHEA Gas Passport, giving them the recognised qualification needed for site access within the gas industry

• Module 1: Understanding our workplace responsibilities
• Module 2: Understanding the effects of our work on the environment
• Module 3: Identifying and controlling risks
• Module 4: Common hazards in the workplace
• Module 5: Occupational health hazards
• Module 6: Responding to emergencies
• Module 7 (Gas specific): Highway working and excavations
• Module 8 (Gas specific): Pressure regulating installations
• Module 9 (Gas specific): Safety in premises
• Legal responsibilities of employers and employees within the gas industry
• Environmental protection considerations relevant to gas operations
• Risk assessment and control measures on operational sites
• Recognising physical and occupational health hazards
• Emergency response procedures and reporting requirements
• Overview of the EUSR SHEA Gas Passport scheme and certification process

This course is aimed at anyone who requires access to operational sites within the gas industry, at any level, including operatives, supervisors and managers. It is particularly suited to those working on temporary or permanent gas sites who need to demonstrate a recognised standard of health, safety and environmental awareness before being granted site access.

It is ideal for new starters to the gas industry who need to gain their initial SHEA Gas Passport, as well as for those whose existing SHEA Gas registration is approaching expiry and who need to requalify. Employers and site managers may also find this course useful in ensuring their teams meet the safety standards expected before working on operational gas sites.

Learners should have a good understanding of both written and spoken English to follow the course content and complete the assessments, as training and assessment are conducted in English. Due to the physically demanding and potentially stressful nature of some course content, learners may also be required to confirm their medical fitness and physical ability to participate before the course begins.

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