IOSH - Managing Safely
Course Objectives
This course is designed to give managers and supervisors an understanding of everyone's safety and health responsibilities in the workplace and to enable managers and supervisors to recognise how they can influence, control and monitor risk to improve safety and health issues in the workplace.
Contents
The learner will be able to:
- Describe the key reasons to manage safety and health in the workplace
- Define the key terms relating to safety and health
- Identify how the law can have an impact on safety and health in the workplace
- Describe how to assess, reduce and control risk in the workplace
- Identify workplace hazards and risks, their impact and how to manage them
- Identify how to evaluate and respond to an incident
- List the benefits and characteristics of an effective health and safety management system
- Describe the principles that underpin good safety and health performance
Those who manage others and manage risk and resources.
Course benefits
The certificates for this course will remain valid for a period of three years. A re-certification course is available to update and increase knowledge of current best practice. The re-certification course will allow previous course delegates to update their skills without resitting the four day course.
Additional information
- 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 for 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 and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and 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
Certificates
Upon successful completion of this course and passing the two exam papers (One Multiple Choice and One Written Practical Exercise - Risk Assessment - paper), candidates will receive a Certificate of completion from IOSH.
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