IOSH Managing Safely Courses

Full course syllabus

1. Introducing Managing Safely

• Understanding what is meant by “health and safety”
• 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 a near miss
• Accident ratios/accident triangles
• Accident causation theories
• The reasons for investigating an accident
• Responding to an accident
• The investigation process
• RIDDOR – reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations
  
  

3. Human factors

• Organisation 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
  
  

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
  
  

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

Course Assessment

There is a 45-minute written assessment, consisting of 30 questions in a variety of formats, and a standard project which comprises of a workplace risk assessment. The project must be completed within two weeks of the end of the course.