Everton Environmental Safety and Health Solutions Limited provides various types of safety training to meet both legislative requirements and specific clientele needs.  These trainings are provided at the client’s premises (in-house), or other identified training locations away from the workplace. We also offer open house training where participants from different workplaces are trained together.

Training subjects include:

1. Safety and health for safety and health committee: The purpose of the safety and health committee is to assist management in providing a safe workplace. The committee members, being active safety advocates, accomplish this. Acting as the liaison between workers and management, committee members work to ensure a cooperative effort to improve safety in the workplace. Rule 12. (1) & (2) of the Factories and Other Places of Work (Safety and Health Committees) Rules, Legal Notice No. 31 of 2004 require that every member of the Committee undertakes a prescribed basic training course in occupational health and safety. The training duration is 30 contact hours.
2. Fire safety training for workplace fire team: This course is aimed at anyone who requires a course as a Fire Warden or a Fire Marshal. This course will provide learners with a thorough understanding of their role and responsibilities and provide the skills and knowledge required. The course is designed to meet and comply with the Factories and Other Places of Work (Fire Risk Reduction) Rules, Legal Notice No. 59 of 2007. The training duration is 15 contact hours.
3. Fire marshal training for educational institutions: Staff in educational institutions have a key role to ensure the safety of learners and anyone else who could be present. Schools are often large buildings that are in constant use throughout the day by large numbers of people. When schools are closed at night, weekends and school holidays they can be especially vulnerable to arson attacks. In order that the safety from fire of all school occupants can be ensured, school staff must have sufficient fire safety knowledge and skills to prevent fire and act effectively should one occur. The training duration is 15 contact hours.
4. Basic fire awareness training for all workers: This training provides participants with greater awareness and understanding of the dangers of fires and helps them to identify and reduce the risk that fire presents in the workplace. Participants will understand what action to take in the event of discovering a fire or hearing the fire alarm sound in the workplace. They will also be taught how to safely use firefighting appliances. The training duration is 15 contact hours.
5. Construction Supervisor safety and health training: Supervisors are the employer’s representative on a construction site. They monitor the progress of the project, plan the work, assign tasks, and ensure the safety and health of workers. Having a competent supervisor on site is one of the keys to reducing injuries and property damage in the construction industry. The training shall take a minimum of 30 contact hours.
6. Working safely at height & emergency rescue training: This is a two-day course that provides candidates with information on the dangers associated with working at heights and of the safe systems of work to use whilst working at heights. The course also includes emergency rescue planning and execution.  The student to instructor ratio shall be 10:1. The training which includes practical sessions shall take a minimum of 16 contact hours.
7. Safe use and handling of hazardous substances training: This training is offered in accordance with Rule 15. (2) of the Factories and other Places of Work (Hazardous Substances) Rules, Legal Notice No. 60 of 2007. The Rule requires that every employer shall ensure that workers are trained and certified by a competent person, on continuing basis in the practices and procedures to be followed for safety in the use of chemicals at work. The training shall take a minimum of 8 contact hours.
8. Electrical safety training: This training is for electricians, technicians, maintenance personnel, engineers, facilities or maintenance supervisors, and other qualified workers who may use a tester or work on electrical parts and are required to have electrical safety training. This one-day course presents necessary information that qualified electrical workers need to know to work safely with electrical equipment. This training is in line with requirements of NFPA 70E – Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace and Section 99. (1) of OSHA, 2007.
9. Warehousing and materials handling training: This one-day course will enable participants comprehend the safety standards, procedures and practices related to the warehouse and material handling.