Managing Safely (IOSH)

Cost: £450 per student
(inclusive of assessment, workbook, lunch and refreshments)
Dates:

7, 14, 21, 28 March 2012
Awarding Body: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

The ‘Managing Safely’ course is for those required to manage safely and effectively in compliance with both their organisation’s policy and best practice in health and safety.

It aims to ensure that safety requirements are appreciated by people employed as line managers, and to enable them to review their own departmental systems for safety, introducing new controls or implementing changes as appropriate to ensure safety in the workplace.

Content

 

The provision covers 8 modules as follows:

Module 1 – Introduction and overview

  • Course aims and overview
  • Assessment details
  • IOSH certification
  • Introduction to the concept of a safety management system, eg HSG65, either of the systems described in BS 8800, or the system described in OHSAS 18001, including the role of risk assessment.

Module 2 – Reactive monitoring

  • Statutory requirements for reporting
  • Methods of checking for non-reporting
  • Data required for an adequate record of an incident
  • Methods of basic trend and epidemiological analysis of reactive monitoring data
  • The procedure for accident investigations
  • The human factors information required for an adequate investigation
  • Investigation techniques, including interviewing and recording details of the site
  • Techniques of report writing.

Module 3 – Risk assessment and risk control

  • The legal requirements for risk assessment
  • The meaning of ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’
  • The data required for an inventory and techniques of inventory preparation
  • Hazard identification techniques
  • The human factors information required for effective hazard identification
  • A basic numerical risk rating technique
  • Types of workplace precaution and workplace precaution hierarchies
  • Criteria to be used in selecting workplace precautions
  • Data required for an adequate record of a risk assessment
  • Risk assessment review procedures.

Module 4 – Health and safety legislation

  • Source of complete listings of all health and safety legislation
  • The use of approved and other codes of practice, guidance and other information resources
  • Means of access to sources of advice and guidance, including the HSE
  • The main provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Module 5 – Common hazards

  • Fire
  • Poor housekeeping
  • Manual handling
  • Electricity
  • Display screen equipment
  • Work equipment
  • Noise
  • Movement of people
  • Chemicals and substances
  • Vehicles.

Module 6 – Active monitoring

  • The purposes and techniques of active monitoring
  • The methods of developing and maintaining checklists and aides-mémoire
  • The methods of developing and maintaining schedules for active monitoring
  • Data required for an adequate record of active monitoring
  • Methods of basic trend and epidemiological analysis of active monitoring data.

Module 7 – Safety management systems

  • The elements of a safety management system
  • The nature, purposes and techniques of management review
  • The nature, purposes and techniques of health and safety audit.

Module 8 – Organisation specific

This module can be flexible and may include specific health and safety topics that are relevant to a particular organisation, by agreement.

Understanding of the course material is evaluated by means of a 45 minute written assessment paper consisting of 20 multi-format questions and a practical assessment.

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