IOSH Managing Safely

Aims

To ensure that safety requirements are appreciated by people employed as line managers and enable them to review their own departmental systems for safety, introducing new controls or implementing changes as appropriate to make the department work more safely.

On successful completion of the course delegates should be able to:

• Apply basic management principles to safety and health issues
• Recognise safety and health hazards in the workplace
• Ensure what actions should be taken when incidents involving injury or damage occur
• Communicate effectively on safety and health issues
• Describe statutory requirements for reporting and procedures for checking for non-reporting
• Describe methods of basic trend and epidemiological analysis for reactive monitoring techniques
• Define hazards and risks and describe the legal requirements for risk assessment
• Demonstrate a practical understanding of a quantitative risk technique and the data required for records
• Identify workplace precaution hierarchies and the criteria for types of workplace precautions and controls
• Prepare and use active monitoring checklists and implement schedules fo active monitoring, recording results and analysing records
• Explain the purposes and techniques of a health and safety audit
• Outline the main provisions of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 & Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1992.
• Describe procedures and techniques used in management reviews
• Outline relevant health and safety legislation, codes of practice, guidance notes and information sources such as the Health and Safety Executive
• Distinguish specific hazards both generally and from an organisational perspective

The IOSH Managing Safely course requires about 25 hours of direct tuition time with exercises and workshops included. It is assessed by way of an examination followed by a work based project. The delivery timetable is flexible; the course can be in a one-week block, on a one day a week basis or over two weeks. Other options are available.

What Do I Bring?

• Theory only
• 9:30am - 16:30