Course Description

The IOSH Managing Safely training Course develops the legal, moral and social duties of sector supervisors, managers or directors by giving guidance on how to control their workforce in accordance with current Health & Safety and best practice. This course is unlike any other. You’ll find a practical programme, full of step- by-step guidance, and with a sharp business focus. But you’ll also find that the highly innovative format and content engages and inspires delegates – critical to getting essential health and safety messages across.

Who Should Attend

IOSH 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 they get out of it?

What they need to know – and are perhaps reluctant to learn about – in a refreshingly informal way.

Managing safely won’t turn delegates into safety experts – but it will give them the knowledge and tools to tackle the health and safety issues they’re responsible for. Importantly, it brings home just why health and safety is such an essential part of their job.

Managing Safely covers...

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 ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system 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 how the legal system works, 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 but effective introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts.

Assessment & Award

Each delegate is assessed by a short theory assessment paper and post-course practical assignment. An IOSH Managing Safely Certificate is awarded for successful completion of both.

Duration

The IOSH Managing Safely training course usually runs over four days. The course starts at 9.00am and finishes at around 4.00pm on each day with mid morning, mid day and mid afternoon breaks, depending on class size and interaction. Alternatively, subject to availability and number of delegates, we can offer this course over two split days of two or four single days over consecutive weeks. We will endeavour to accommodate your needs wherever possible. The IOSH Managing Safely certificate does not have an expiry date however IOSH recommend that candidates undergo a refresher course every five years.

Cost

Typical fees for open courses are £525 + vat per person; however we do offer group discount. Our fees can also vary for in house courses (dependant on location and numbers).

The course fees are inclusive of the following:

Venue

We run open IOSH Managing Safely training courses regularly at our Training Centre in Tonbridge, Kent. Alternatively, we can travel to your location subject to suitable facilities.