IOSH Managing Safely – health and safety at work

Course description

Who should go on Managing Safely?
Managing safely is for managers and supervisors in any sector, and any organisation. It’s designed to get managers up to speed on the practical actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their teams.

What will you get out of it?
What you need to know – and are perhaps reluctant to learn about – in a refreshingly informal way. Managing safely won’t turn people into safety experts – but it will give you the knowledge and tools to tackle the health and safety issues you are responsible for. Importantly, it brings home just why health and safety is such an essential part of your job.

Advantages

• Nationally recognised and respected certificate for managers and supervisors
• Peace of mind offered by training that’s designed and quality-controlled by the Chartered body for health and safety professionals – IOSH
• Flexibility -the programme can be studied in your own time to suit the business
• Two key areas -health and safety and environmental basics – are covered

Course Syllabus

1. Introducing Managing Safely
   Some managers may see health and safety as an add-on to their role -even an intrusion. The first module makes it clear that managers are accountable for their teams, and makes a persuasive case for managing safely.
2. Assessing Risks
   This module defines and demystifies andlsquo;risk’ and andlsquo;risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and you 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 how the legal system works, and introduces a health andsafety 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 verbalabuse, 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 but effective introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individualmanagers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts.

No Previous Knowledge Required
No prior knowledge in this subject is necessary to complete the IOSH Managing Safely course.

Support
You will receive full personal tutor support. Our student support team are also available for any other queries that you may have whilst completing your course. You can be assured that support is available for your course, so there is no need to struggle or feel isolated during your studies. You have the freedom to start the course at any time.

Assessment
Each candidate is required to undertake a short multiple-choice paper and a workplace-based written assignment.
IOSH Accredited Certificate
On successful completion of the IOSH Managing Safely course and the assessed work, candidates will receive an IOSH accredited certificate