Training Courses
Managing Safely Course

Candidate Requirement: Any person who has to manage risk and resources within their organisation.

Course Objective: To ensure that safety requirements are appreciated by people employed as line managers, and to enable them to review their own departmental systems for safety, introducing new controls or implementing changes as appropriate to ensure safety in the workplace.

Course Content: 

Module One - Introduction and overview
  • Course aims and overview
  • Assessment details
  • IOSH Certification
    • Introduction to the concept of a safety management system, e.g. HSG65, either of the systems described in BS 8800, or the system described in OHSAS 18001, including the role of risk assessment.

Module Two - Reactive monitoring
  • Statutory requirements for reporting
  • Methods of checking for non-reporting
  • Data required for an adequate record of an incident
  • Methods of basic trend and epidemiological analysis of reactive monitoring data
  • The procedure for accident investigations
  • The human factors information required for an adequate investigation
  • Investigation techniques, including interviewing and recording details of the site
  • Techniques of report writing

Module Three - Risk assessment and risk control
  • The legal requirements for risk assessment
  • The meaning of ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’
  • The data required for an inventory and techniques of inventory preparation
  • Hazard identification techniques
  • The human factors information required for effective hazard identification
  • A basic numerical risk rating technique
  • Types of workplace precaution and workplace precaution hierarchies
  • Criteria to be used in selecting workplace precautions
  • Data required for an adequate record of a risk assessment
  • Risk assessment review procedures

Module Four - Health and Safety Legislation
  • Source of complete listings of all health and safety legislation
  • The use of Approved and other codes of practice, guidance and other information resources
  • Means of access to sources of advice and guidance, including the HSE
  • The main provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act and the Management of Health and Safety at work Regulations 2006

Module Five - Common Hazards
  • Fire
  • Electricity
  • Work Equipment
  • Movement of people
  • Vehicles
  • Poor housekeeping
  • Manual handling
  • Display screen equipment
  • Noise
  • Chemicals and substances

Module Six - Active Monitoring
  • The purposes and techniques of active monitoring
  • The methods of developing and maintaining checklists and aides-memoire
  • The methods of developing and maintaining schedules for active monitoring
  • Data required for an adequate record of active monitoring
  • Methods of basic trend and epidemiological analysis of  active monitoring data

Module Seven - Safety management systems
  • The elements of a safety management system
  • The nature, purposes and techniques of management review
  • The nature, purposes and techniques of health and safety audit

Module Eight - Client specific
  • This module is flexible; course trainers/authors may include specific health and safety topics that are relevant to the organisation

Certification: A IOSH Certificate will be awarded to each successful participant on this course
Duration: 4 days
No. of Participants: 12 (maximum)


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See also: MANUAL HANDLING INSTRUCTORS IOSH CERTIFIED