IOSH Managing Safely

Course Information Pack

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Before You Start

Why Take the Course?

Course Overview

Full Course Syllabus

Assessment

IOSH Managing Safely CourseInformation Pack

Entry requirements

There aren’t any! You don’t need any health and safety knowledge or experience to take the course.

Course Duration

IOSH Managing Safely requires 24 hours of study. This can be taken online or in your company.

In-company courses are taught across 3 days.

With online learning, you can split your learning across as many days as you like. You’ll be given 6 months access to course materials and tutor support, which you can work through in your own time.

Is the course right for you?

IOSH Managing Safely is IOSH’s most popular course and a leading health and safety certificate around the world. It’s for people working in a line management or supervisory type role in any type of business or industry.

The course is designed to help you get up-to-speed on your responsibilities. It won’t turn you into a safety expert. But it will give you an understanding of the responsibilities and accountabilities placed on you by the law, and health and safety management systems. You’ll also learn the practical actions you need to take to help meet those obligations and maintain a safe and healthy workplace.

01Before You Start

Help your company avoid high costs

Employers have a duty to protect the health of its workers. In addition to the direct costs of sick pay and absence, employers can find themselves dealing with criminal prosecution (fines and imprisonment), claims for compensation, adverse publicity and harm to both business reputation and profitability if they’re seen to neglect their health and safety obligations.

IOSH Managing Safely will help you understand the legal obligations placed on Managers and employers. That way, you’ll be able to make sure everyone is working to legally and in line with best practice.

Help create a safety-conscious workforce

Creating a safe workplace isn’t a one-person job. It takes people at all levels to understand the importance of health and safety and work towards one unified goal. IOSH Managing Safely will help you lead by example and promote a health and safety culture in which everyone plays their part.

Protect your colleagues from life-changing injuries

A serious workplace injury or death can change lives forever – for families, friends, communities and colleagues. But the majority of incidents and ill-health are avoidable with good health and safety practice. IOSH Managing Safely will help you create a safe and healthy workplace so that your colleagues cans thrive in their job and get home safely at the end of each day.

02Why TakeThe Course?

By the end of the course you’ll be able to:

• Understand the importance of managing health and safety.

• Identify how the law can have an impact on safety and health in the workplace.

• Identify workplace hazards and risks, their impact and how to manage them.

• Identify how to evaluate and respond to an incident.

• List the benefits and characteristics of an effective health and safety management system.

• Describe the principles that underpin good safety and health performance.

IOSH Manging Safely covers the main principles for managing and improving health and safety in the workplace. You’ll learn how to carry out the practical actions needed maintain a safe workplace. It’s split into 8 modules:

1. Introducing managing safely 2. Investigating accidents and incidents 3. Human factors 4. Assessing risk 5. Controlling risk 6. Understanding manager’s responsibilities 7. Common hazards 8. Measuring performance

03Course Overview

1. Introducing Managing Safely.• Describe the principles that underpin good safety

and health performance. • The moral, legal and financial reasons to manage

health and safety.• Managers responsibilities and accountability

2. 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

3. Human factors• Organisation factors including safety culture

and managers• Individual factors; attitude, personality,

abilities, training and development, motivation and perception of risk

• Human failure• Job factors• Violations• Errors

4. Assessing risk• Sensible risk management• The risk assessment process• Specific cases for risk assessment

5. 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

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6. 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

7. 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

8. Measuring performance• Active and reactive monitoring systems • Health and safety auditing

05Full Course Syllabus

Assssment format

There are two assessments for IOSH Managing Safely: a short knowledge test and a workplace risk assessment project.

Knowledge test

The knowledge test is taken at the end of your course. You’ll have 45 minutes to answer 30 questions in a variety of formats, including multiple choice, true/false and open questions.

Risk assessment

The risk assessment project must be submitted within 2 weeks of finishing your course. You’ll be required to tell a complete story of your chosen work area by:

• Describing the work area and associated tasks. • Identifying 4 hazards in the work area, with each

one followed through the risk assessment process.• Describing the current risk controls that are in

place and calculating a risk rating.• Describing the additional controls needed

and calculating a new risk rating.• Stating who will action and monitor the

further controls and when. • Listing who may be harmed by the

identified hazards.

Pass marks

You must pass both assessments to achieve your IOSH Managing Safely certificate. The pass marks are set at:

• Knowledge test: 36 marks out of a possible 60. • Risk assessment: 23 marks out of a possible 38.

You’ll receive your IOSH Managing Safely certificate in the post within 6 weeks of passing your assessment.

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