IOSH Managing Safely®

Introducing Managing Safely® This course is designed to provide the confidence and enthusiasm to apply knowledge to the workplace, this course will help embed a positive health and safety culture across your business. IOSH Managing Safely® is for anyone and everyone in a working role who wants to learn the basics of safety and health.

Assessing risks
This module defines and demystifies ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and delegates carry out a series of assessments.

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.

Understanding your responsibilities
This module looks at the demands of the law and how the legal system works, and introduces a health and safety management system.

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.

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.

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.

Assessment
Multi format question paper at the end of the course. Project consisting of a risk assessment with 4 hazards. This needs to be completed within 2 weeks of the last day of the course.