IOSH Managing Safely
From£599.00 + VAT per delegate
The IOSH Managing Safely Certificate is not as comprehensive as the NEBOSH National General Certificate but is extremely popular with Managers/Supervisors as it provides a basic understanding and awareness of Health & Safety Management Systems, Legislation, and Risk Assessment. It is for those required to manage safely and effectively in compliance with both their organisation's policy and best practice in Health and Safety. Managing Safely comprises eight core modules requiring a total direct input period of at least 24 hours plus assessment time. The delivery can be spread over a convenient time span.
Contact us if an in-house course on dates to suit is needed.
Overview
The ‘Managing safely’ course is for those required to manage safely and effectively in compliance with both their organisation’s policy and best practice in health and safety.
Aims
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.
Delegate pre-requisites
None
Duration
Four days
Who should attend?
Any person who has to manage risk and resources within their organisation.
Learning objectives
On successful completion of the course, delegates should be able to:
- explain the component parts of a recognised safety management system such as HSG65, BS 8800 and OHSAS 18001
- identify the data and techniques required to produce an adequate record of an incident and the procedure for an accident investigation, recognising the human factors involved
- describe statutory requirements for reporting and procedures for checking for non-reporting
- describe methods of basic trend and epidemiological analysis for reactive monitoring data
- define ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’, and describe the legal requirements for risk assessment
- demonstrate a practical understanding of a quantitative risk assessment technique and the data required for records
- describe workplace precaution hierarchies
- prepare and use active monitoring checklists and implement schedules for active monitoring, recording results and analysing records
- outline the main provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- outline relevant health and safety legislation, codes of practice, guidance notes and information sources such as the Health and Safety Executive.
Programme
Module 1 – Introducing Managing Safely
- Course aims and overview
- Assessment details
- IOSH certification
- Legal Overview of Civil and Criminal Law
- Introduction to the concept of a safety management system, eg HSG65 including the role of risk assessment.
- The main provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Module 2 – Assessing Risks
- The legal requirements for risk assessment
- Practical risk assessment
- Overview of the risk assessment methodology
- The meaning of ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’
- Data required for an adequate record of a risk assessment
- A basic numerical risk rating technique
Module 3 – Controlling Risks
- Controlling risks hierarchy
- The data required for an inventory and techniques of inventory preparation
- Hazard identification techniques
- The human factors information required for effective hazard identification
- Types of workplace precaution and workplace precaution hierarchies
- Criteria to be used in selecting workplace precautions
- Risk assessment review procedures
Module 4 – Understanding your responsibilities
- 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
- Developing management systems with an understanding of the implementation of the roles and responsibilities to ensure effective legal compliance
Module 5 – Identifying hazards
- Fire
- Electricity
- Work equipment
- Movement of people
- Vehicles
- Poor housekeeping
- Manual handling
- Display screen equipment
- Noise
- Chemicals and substances
Module 6 – Investigating accidents and incidents
- 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
- Route cause analysis
Module 7 – Measuring Performance
- The purposes and techniques of active monitoring
- The methods of developing and maintaining checklists and aides-mémoire
- 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
- 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 8 – Environment and Client specific
- A short but effective introduction to waste and pollution that leads into a look at how organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts.
- This module is flexible; course trainers/authors may include specific health and safety topics that are relevant to the organization, i.e. bespoke so that we may add any subjects the orgainisation think may be relevant to the specific sector.
- The information contained in this leaflet is correct at the time of printing; however CRS reserves the right to revise this information at any time.
Certification
An IOSH ‘Managing safely’ certificate is awarded to all those who attend the course and successfully complete both the written and practical assessments. Understanding of the course material is evaluated by means of a 45-minute written assessment paper consisting of 22 multi-format questions and a practical assessment.
We have arranged many IOSH Managing Safely Courses for other companies on a bespoke basis at their premises with excellent results & feedback, our customers include Thames Valley Police, T5, South Cheshire College, Luminar, Dairy Crest, McLaren F1 and Bradford College.
Fully inclusive means all registration fees/certificate fees/ material costs and travelling expenses.
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Joining us couldn't be easier; for further information on this course and any questions please contact:-
Ros Stacey
Business Development Manager
01283 509175
07968 483615
rs@crsrisk.com
