IOSH – Managing Safely
45min
written Assessment
All
Skill Level
24h
Duration
English
Language
Overview
Learners gaining this qualification will understand responsibilities for safety in the workplace, recognize common workplace hazards and implement appropriate control measures, estimate, evaluate and reduce risk by applying a hierarchy of risk control, undertake
structured risk assessments and accident investigations, understand the requirements of HSE legislation, recognize different ways to measure and improve health and safety performance
COURSE OUTLINE
• Understanding what is meant by “health and safety”
• The moral, legal and financial reasons to manage health and safety
• Managers responsibilities and accountability
• 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 processes
• RIDDOR
• Organization factors including safety culture and managers
• Job factors
• Individual factors; attitude, personality, abilities, training and development, motivation and perception of risk
• Human failure
• Violations
• Errors
• Sensible risk management
• The risk assessment process
• Specific cases for risk assessment
• The legal framework for Risk anagement
• Hierarchies of control
• Required levels of control
• Safety Systems of Work (SSW) and Permits to Work (PTW)
• Emergency arrangements
• 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
• 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
• Active and reactive monitoring systems
• Health and safety auditing