IOSH Managing safely Training Course

This course is designed for managers of any discipline - those who wish to learn best practice in health and safety and manage safely and effectively, in compliance with health and safety legislation. The course will give you everything you need to comply with your health and safety obligations to both your staff and the law.

Course length = 4 day(s) ~ covering:-

This course follows the content of the IOSH syllabus

Introducing managing safely

Understanding the importance of health and safety as an essential part of the managerial role. This module makes it clear that you are accountable for your team, and makes a sound case for managing safely.

Assessing risks

A practical insight into effective risk assessments. Delegates will be shown how to utilise a simple scoring system to complete a series of assessments

Controlling risks

Once you have assessed risks, the next stage is to reduce them. This section of the course covers the best techniques to control key risks, and how to choose the most appropriate method.

Understanding your responsibilities

As a manager, you need to be aware of the demands of the law and the workings of the legal system in relation to health and safety. This section will introduce you to a well-established health and safety management system.

Identifying hazards

This part of the course covers the main workplace hazards that can emerge in organisations. These are entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, bullying, stress, noise, housekeeping, slips, trips and falls, working at height, computer hazards and manual handling

Investigating accidents and incidents

This section gives you best practice on investigation techniques when things go wrong.

Measuring performance

This module explains the link between checking performance and the improvement of health and safety. You will learn how to develop basic performance indicators, and get to grips with auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.

Protecting our environment

Here you will gain a brief overview of waste, pollution and other environmental concerns, and examine methods of cutting down environmental impacts.


Upon successful completion of the assessments delegates will be awarded an IOSH Managing Safely certificate, which IOSH recommends is renewed after two years.

Course Fee = £1175

Scheduled course dates

May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 - - 8 - -