IOSH Managing Safely

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Why Attend

IOSH Managing Safely is an ideal course for any individual in a supervisory or management position to understand why and how to manage safety within their organization effectively.

IOSH Managing Safely takes participants through the essential steps in effective health and safety management, from identifying and assessing risks and developing control methodologies, to understanding personal and corporate responsibilities.

The course also includes vital information on the importance of incident investigations and how to conduct an investigation, to identify the root causes of incidents to reduce the risk of repeating similar incidents.

IOSH Managing Safety provides critical information on how to set leading and positive performance goals and track success against these to drive positive health and safety culture within organizations.

Event Date: 18/04/2023 – 20/04/2023

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Overview
Course Outline

Course Outline

Introducing Managing Safely
- Why is it important to manage safely?
- What is your role in influencing managing safely?
Assessing risks
- What is risk?
- Hazard and hazardous events
- What is a risk assessment?
- How are risk assessments carried out
- Identifying hazards
- Assessing risk – risk matrix
- Recording and communicating findings
- Dynamic risk assessments
Controlling risks
- How to reduce risk
- Reduction of likelihood
- Reduction of severity
- How do you decide which control to use?
- Hierarchy of risk control
- Human behavior factors
- Benefits of risk reduction vs time, cost and effort
- Putting risk control into practice
Understanding responsibilities
- What does the law require you to do?
- Duty holder responsibilities
- How does the law work?
- Reasonably foreseeable risks
- Reasonably practicable controls
- Civil law vs criminal law
- Local and International Legal Frameworks
- Key parts of a health and safety management system
Understanding hazards
- Common hazards within the workplace
- Mechanical hazards
- Physical hazards
- Chemical hazards
- Biological hazards
- Environmental hazards
- Organizational hazards
- What can you do to reduce or mitigate these hazards?
Investigating incidents
- Why investigate incidents?
- Importance of near-miss reporting and investigation
- How do incidents happen?
- Causal tree
- Immediate causes
- Underlying causes
- Root causes
- How do you carry out an investigation?
Measuring performance
- What’s performance measurement about?
- How do you measure health and safety performance?
- Indicators, reactive and proactive
- Proactive measures
- Reactive measures
- Standard reporting figures
- Safety pyramid
- What is auditing?