IOSH Managing Safely

Course review:

Managing Safely is for managers and supervisors, in any industry and
provides the Managers with an understanding of their duties and
responsibilities under Health and Safety. The course covers the following
topics.

1. Introducing Managing safely

Some managers may see health and safety as an add-on to their role. The first module makes it clear that managers are accountable for their teams.

2. Assessing risks

This module defines ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments are introduced, and delegates carry out a series of assessments.

3. Controlling risks

Here the session tackles cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks, and how to choose the right method.

4. Understanding your responsibilities

This module looks at the demands of the law, and introduces a health and safety management system.

5. Identifying hazards

All the main issues any operation has to deal with are covered in this module – entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise, housekeeping and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, working at height, computers and manual
handling.

6. Investigating accidents and incidents

The session starts with why accidents should be investigated, and goes on to cover why things go wrong, and how to carry out an investigation when they do.

7. Measuring performance

This module explains how checking performance can help to improve health and safety. Delegates learn how to develop basic performance indicators, and get to grips with auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.

8. Protecting our environment

A short introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts