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10 TU DUBLIN CPD PROGR AMME DIPLOMA AND CERTIFICATES IN SAFET Y MANAGEMENT TU (TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY) DUBLIN CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) PROGRAMME DIPLOMA AND CERTIFICATES IN SAFETY MANAGEMENT LEVEL 7 By Comdt Colin Roche To take up the role as a Health and Safety professional in the modern Defence Forces, it's vital to acquire the skills necessary, to understand the impact of health and safety decisions on the work- place and everyone connected to it. This programme is designed to help students to acquire those skills or to broaden their existing skillset with a flexible path to CPD Certification in any or all, of the modules offered. It also offers the option to study all the way to the new Level 7 Diploma, in Risk and Safety Management. The idea is that the courses offer a practical, vocationally orientated and pro- fessionally integrated approach to managing occupational health and safety. Comdt. Colin Roche developed all the course material. All the courses where validated and accredited by TU Dublin, in order to provide members of the Defence Forces with certification in safety management training in a variety of safety management disciplines. Comdt. Roche had TU Dublin agree, that when a student completed 8 of the courses, they could apply for a higher level award of a CPD Diploma, level 7, in Risk and Safety Management. There are currently 12 courses in the program: Basic and Advanced Workplace Safety Management Basic and Advanced Chemical Safety Management Basic and Advanced Fire Safety Management Workplace Noise Assessor Environmental Noise Assessor Human Factors Workplace Accident Investigation Biomechanics and Ergonomics Auditing for Safety Professionals These CPD certificates were developed to allow students to gain qualifications in specialist areas in safety management. Each course is 30 hours of instruction, with students having to pass a written examination, and 70 hours of self-directed learning, where the students apply their newly acquired knowledge to practical assignments in their workplace. For example, a student completing the Workplace Noise Assessor course would have to carry out a noise survey. The first course was delivered 2014 and there has been a total of 39 courses completed with 344 Defence Forces personnel registered and 470 CPD certificate awards. Each course is a level 7 and is awarded 5 European Credits Transfer System (ECTS) points. All courses are validated and accredited by TU Dublin. A student who successfully completes 8 courses is eligible to apply for a higher level 7 award of a CPD Diploma in Risk and Safety Management, 40 ECTS. To date, there have been 11 CPD Diplomas in Risk and Safety Man - agement awarded to Defence Force Personnel. Rory O'Connor, Brig Gen Air Corps, presented on the 16 June 2022, the following Air Corps personnel with their CPD Diplomas and Certificates from TU Dublin. Award Recipients Comdt Sinead Doyle - CPD Certificate in Workplace Noise Assessment RSM John Green - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment RSM John O'Brien - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment F/Sgt James Mulrennan - CPD Diploma in Risk and Safety Management, CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment F/Sgt Thomas Eakins - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment Sgt Niall Robinson - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment Sgt Michael Rice - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment Sgt Brendan Queaney - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment Cpl Patrick Byrne - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management In Armn Dean McDermott - CPD Diploma in Risk and Safety Management, CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and Workplace Noise Assessment Mr Oliver McKeown (RSM retd) - CPD Diploma in Risk and Safety Management Mr Shane McKinley (Sgt retd) - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management and CPD Diploma in Risk and Safety Management Mr Michael Cleary (Sgt retd) - CPD Certificates in Advance Workplace Safety Management (L-R) - Brig Gen Rory O'Connor, Sgt Michael Rice, Sgt Brendan Queaney, Armn Dean McDermot, Sgt Niall Robinson, RSM John O'Brien, Comdt Sinead Doyle, F/Sgt James Mulrennan, Mr Oliver McKeown and Comdt Colin Roche. RSM John O'Brien taking noise measurements with Sgt Quarney Sgt Brendan Quarney taking noise measurements with RSM O'Brien

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