IOSH MANAGING SAFELY Institution of Occupational Safety and Health – IOSH
Course Description
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Managing safely is a course for managers and supervisors in any sector and any Organization. It is designed to give managers all they need to know to help them handle health and safety in their teams. The flexible new high impact programmed covers all the main health and safety issues, and includes a session tackling the environment too.
Learning Objectives
- On completion of the course, you will be able to:
- Understand your responsibilities for safety in the workplace.
- Recognize common workplace hazards and implement appropriate control measures.
- Estimate, evaluate and reduce risk by applying a hierarchy of risk control.
- Undertake structured risk assessments and accident investigations.
- Understand the requirements of HSE legislation.
- Recognize different ways to measure and improve health and safety performance
COURSE OUTLINE
Introducing Managing Safely
- Understanding what is meant by “health and safety”
- The moral, legal and financial reasons to manage health and safety
- Managers responsibilities and accountability
Investigating Accidents and Incidents
- The difference between accidents and near miss
- Accident ratios/accident triangles
- Accident causation theories
- The reasons for investigating an accident
- Responding to an accident
- The investigation process
- RIDDOR
Human factors
- Organization factors including safety culture and managers
- Job factors
- Individual factors; attitude, personality, abilities, training and development, motivation and perception of risk
- Human failure
- Violations
- Errors
Assessing Risk
- Sensible risk management
- The risk assessment process
- Specific cases for risk assessment
Controlling Risk
- The legal framework for Risk Management
- Hierarchies of control
- Required levels of control
- Safety Systems of Work (SSW) and Permits to Work (PTW)
- Emergency arrangements
Understanding Managers Responsibilities
- Health and safety law; civil, criminal and levels of legal duties
- Enforcement of health and safety
- Health and safety management systems; plan, do, check, act
Common hazards
- Access and Egress
- Aggression, bullying and violence
- Asbestos
- Chemical and substances
- Confined spaces
- DSE
- Drugs and alcohol
- Electricity
- Fire
- Housekeeping
- Lighting
- Manual handling
- Noise
- Radiation
- Slips, trips and falls
- Stress
- Vibration
- Welfare facilities
- Work equipment and machinery
- Workplace transport
- Workplace temperature
- Work at height
Measuring performance
- Active and reactive monitoring systems
- Health and safety auditing
Terms & Conditions
- The course will be held at a predetermined venue.
- A deposit is required at the time of booking for individual attendance.
- Any remaining balance is due before the course begins.