IOSH Managing Safely
Detailed Course Content
If you are based in the North West of England and you are looking for IOSH Managing Safely training you should check out our IOSH courses. From our training centre in Dukinfield, near Manchester in the North West, we provide the best value IOSH Managing Safely training available.
If you are not based in the North West and Manchester is too far for you to commute our expert trainers can deliver the IOSH Managing Safely course at your venue.
The following IOSH Managing Safely course information is provided so that you can be sure that your managers are getting the training that they need to enable them to contribute to your safer workplace.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 1
Why is it important to manage safely?
In this module learners are introduced to what can happen if things go wrong, the effect that an accident can have on the family of the injured person, what might happen in the courts and what happens as a result of bad press.
The importance of managing safely is reinforced in a video featuring Ken Woodward, who was injured at work. The accident had an impact on many people.
What are your responsibilities as a manager?
This is an area for concern for many managers. Information is given on the responsibility to manage safely and, just as important, the accountability for health and safety.
There is a great IOSH game, which enables learners to measure their own perception whilst at the same time delivering a range of safety data such as the rate at which people are injured at work, the cost of accidents to British industry, insurance costs and what would not be covered by insurance in the event of an accident.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 2
What is risk?
Throughout this part of the IOSH Managing Safely course we introduce the component parts of a risk assessment, starting with defining and clarifying words and phrases used in risk assessment including risk, hazard, hazardous event, likelihood and consequence.
What is a risk assessment?
We then move on to identify what a risk assessment consists of and what its intention is, who and what it protects and how it achieves this.
How are risk assessments carried out?
There are six steps to the IOSH risk assessment process:
Listing work tasks
Identifying the risks
Estimating the risk
Evaluate the risk
Record your findings
Review your findings
Each of these are expanded upon so that learners fully understand the process of risk assessing and how to complete a suitable and sufficient risk assessment. We even cover points on how the learners can further improve their risk assessments.
We carryout a risk assessment exercise in the form of a board game. This helps the learners to apply the skills that they have just covered.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 3
How do you reduce risks?
Through examples of how people might be hurt at work we demonstrate how the likelihood of people being hurt can be reduced and how the severity or consequence of accidents can be reduced.
The learners are introduced to the hierarchy of risk control:
Eliminate hazards
Reduce hazards
Prevent contact
Safe systems of work
Wear PPE
Explanation is given to each component of the hierarchy along with justification for its position in the hierarchy, their strengths and their weaknesses. Managers can now understand the principles of risk prevention and we apply this in an interactive way, in a couple of examples.
How do you decide which risk controls to use?
If there is a hierarchy of risk controls why do we not always pick controls from the top of the hierarchy? That is the question answered in this part of the IOSH Managing Safely course.
This decision making process is practiced in a practical exercise in the form of a board game.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 4
What does the law require you to do?
Here we give clarity to the expectations of the law and explain the need to control reasonably foreseeable risks so far as is reasonably practicable. These legal terms are given meaning so that the learners have a better understanding of what is required of them and their employers in order to comply with the law.
How does the law work?
The British legal system is a complex beast, which can lead to managers not understanding the basics of its application. We discuss how the law punishes people and organisations and how injured people, for example, gain compensation when things go wrong.
Some detail is provided on specific health and safety legislation and the points covered are reinforced in an interactive game.
What are the key parts of a health and safety management system?
It’s common sense that if we have provisions for any part of our work activity and we don’t manage those provisions, things will go wrong. Here we cover the component parts of health and safety management systems and introduce learners to a couple of examples including HSG65 and OHSAS18001.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 5
What are common hazards?
Here we cover a range of hazards including:
Aggression
Violence
Bullying
Chemicals
Computer workstations
Electricity
Fire
Getting in and out
Heights
Housekeeping
Lighting
Manual handling
Noise
Slips and trips
Stress
Temperature
Vehicles and transport
Vibration
There is an interactive exercise where learners identify each of these hazards in a work environment.
What can you do about common hazards?
Each hazard identified in the previous key learning point is covered in some detail including causes, consequences and what can be done about them.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 6
Why investigate accidents and incidents?
There are many reasons for investigating what went wrong following an accident or incident, key amongst which is preventing it from happening again. In this part of the IOSH Managing Safely course we cover this and other reasons for investigating accidents and incidents as well as identifying the benefits of investigating.
How do accidents and incidents happen?
By using an interactive demonstration we build a ‘causal tree’ and show how accidents happen.
How do you carry out an investigation?
IOSH provide a six step process to accident investigation including:
Ensure the wellbeing of the injured person
Preserve the scene
Report the accident
Assemble the investigation team
Investigate using a structured approach
Handle external relationships
Each of these points are discussed in detail enabling learners to take the appropriate immediate action following an accident. They will understand how to protect the organisation through the correct reporting process and handling of the media and residents groups etc and they will understand who should and should not be involved in investigations and how they should be conducted.
Module 6 of the IOSH Managing Safely course is reinforced with a video based accident investigation practical exercise.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 7
What’s performance measurement about?
Here we identify why it is important to measure health and safety performance and what is the difference between reactive and proactive indicators.
How do you measure health and safety performance?
In this part of the IOSH Managing Safely course we identify how we might measure reactive and proactive indicators and how we can measure whether we are doing enough to control health and safety.
There are several ways that we can collect this information, which is also covered in this key learning point.
What is auditing?
One part of collecting information for measurement is through a process of auditing. Here we clarify the audit process and who would be interested in their outcomes.
IOSH Managing Safely – Module 8
What is the impact of industry on the environment?
How do we damage the environment and what is it about our businesses that lead to this damage? These are the questions that we answer before we can identify what we can do about it.
How can you control pollution and waste?
In addition to giving meaning to some of the environmental management speak such as ‘aspects’ and ‘impacts’ learners are taught the process of environmental risk assessment including the hierarchy of waste control:
Prevent
Reduce
Reuse
Recover responsibly dispose
What are the main elements of an environmental management system?
Having a structured approach to managing your environmental risks may be a legal requirement but there are other benefits to having an environmental management system. We will look at what such a system would consist and how you can minimise the negative impact of managing your environmental risks.
IOSH Managing Safely – end of course assessment
The end of course assessment is a multi format question paper. It consists of a mix of multiple choice questions and questions where you are required to provide answers in the form of lists such as the first 3 controls in the hierarchy of risk control.
IOSH Managing Safely – project
At the end of the course learners are issued with a project, which is based upon a risk assessment of their workplace. The requirements of the project are clearly explained by the trainer and this is supported by the information provided on our IOSH Managing Safely project pages.
Learners have up to two weeks to complete and return the project.
Passing the IOSH Managing Safely course
The minimum mark for the multi format assessment is 50 out of 100.
The minimum mark for the project is 62 out of 123
The minimum total mark is 123
If learners score the minimum marks on both the multi format assessment and the project they will not score enough to achieve the minimum mark of 123.
This leads to a list of IOSH Managing Safely
Course Dates
Here is what some other people have said about our IOSH Managing Safely course.
