Description
Benefits of IOSH Managing Safely:
- IOSH Managing Safely ensures a robust understanding of health and safety best practices and legislation.
- Participants explore practical strategies that can be employed in day-to-day management to improve safety performance and reduce workplace injuries and sick days.
- IOSH Managing Safely is an internationally recognised qualification from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
This course is delivered by Praxis42 Limited, IOSH Approved training provider 900.
Course overview:
Introducing managing safely
- Human, legal, and financial reasons for promoting a safe working environment.
- The manager’s role and accountability for health and safety.
Assessing risks
- What constitutes a risk assessment and how to conduct an effective risk assessment.
- How to identify potential hazards, evaluate risks, and implement measures to control or mitigate risks.
Controlling risks
- Methods for assessing and managing risks. How to apply the hierarchy of risk control to eliminate or minimise risks.
- Looking at different control measures and strategies to reduce a range of workplace risks.
Understanding responsibilities
- Legal obligations and responsibilities related to health and safety management.
- The regulatory framework governing workplace safety and the key components of an effective health and safety management system.
Understanding hazards
- Types of hazards that can be present in a workplace, including physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic, or psychosocial factors.
- Methods for identifying, assessing, and managing hazards to prevent accidents and injuries.
Investigating incidents
- The importance of promptly reporting and investigating workplace incidents. How to report and investigate accidents.
- This module covers identification of the root causes of incidents and corrective actions that can be implemented to prevent recurrence.
Measuring performance
- How to evaluate and monitor the health and safety performance of an organisation to ensure safety standards are maintained.
- What key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure.
Assessment
At the end of the IOSH Managing Safely course there is a multiple-choice assessment to complete which consists of 30 questions. Participants must also submit a risk assessment of their workplace or a setting of their choice.
Certificate
On successful completion participants will receive an IOSH Managing Safely certificate.
Course aims:
By the end of this course participants will understand:
- Responsibilities for promoting health and safety in the workplace.
- The human, legal, and financial consequences of incidents.
- How to build a positive health and safety culture.
- How to identify hazards, measure risks and conduct a risk assessment.
- How to control risks by implementing the right precautions.
- How to review safety systems, introduce new controls and implement changes to improve health and safety.
- How to measure the performance of health and safety in the workplace.
- How to report and investigate incidents.
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