This IOSH Approved Managing Safely online course is designed to equip managers and supervisors with essential health and safety skills to promote safer workplaces. Delivered entirely online, this course offers interactive lessons, practical examples, and flexible, self-paced learning, making it ideal for professionals with busy schedules.
Key areas covered include hazard identification, risk assessments, incident investigations, and adherence to safety regulations. Upon completion, participants will receive the internationally recognised IOSH Managing Safely certificate, showcasing their commitment to maintaining a safe working environment.
Key learning points
- Understand the importance of their role in managing health and safety in their workplace
- Define key health and safety terms
- Identify hazards and carry out an effective risk assessment in the workplace
- Describe how to identify, measure and control hazards and risks
- Understand their responsibilities in relation to health and safety at work
- List the steps that need to be taken to effectively investigate incidents
- Apply practical steps to measure the effectiveness of health and safety programmes in the workplace
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Contact UsWho should use this course?
Managing safely is for managers, supervisors and individuals who are instrumental in managing and implementing health and safety measures in the work place. It is designed to get delegates up to speed on the practical actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their workplace.
How is the course assessed?
The course is assessed in two parts.
Multiple choice examination in which candidates must demonstrate what they have learnt.
Practical assessment in which participants must show how to apply the knowledge they have gained throughout the course to real life situations.
Do we receive a certificate once completed?
Upon completion, participants will receive the internationally recognised IOSH Managing Safely certificate, showcasing their commitment to maintaining a safe working environment.
How can the course be delivered to my team?
The course is viewed online at any time.
Course programme
- Introducing managing safely – Some managers may see health and safety as an add-on to their role – even an intrusion. The first module makes it clear that managers are accountable for their teams and makes a persuasive case for managing safely.
- Assessing risks – This module defines and demystifies ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and delegates carry out a series of assessments.
- Controlling risks – Here the session tackles cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks, and how to choose the right method.
- Understanding your responsibilities – This module looks at the demands of the law and how the legal system works and introduces a health and safety management system.
- Understanding hazards – All the main issues any operation has to deal with are covered in this module – entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise, housekeeping and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, working at height, computers and manual handling.
- Investigating hazards and incidents – The session starts with why hazards should be investigated, and goes on to cover why things go wrong, and how to carry out an investigation when they do.
- Measuring performance – This module explains how checking performance can help to improve health and safety. Delegates learn how to develop basic performance indicators and get to grips with auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.
What will delegates get out of it?
What they need to know in a new accessible way. Managing safely won’t turn delegates into safety experts – but it will give them the knowledge and tools to tackle the health and safety issues they’re responsible for.
Importantly, it brings home just why health and safety is such an essential part of their job. Successful delegates are awarded an IOSH managing safely certificate that is nationally recognised and is a respected certificate of training.