IOSH Managing Safely

IOSH MANAGING SAFELY

Module 1: INTRODUCTION

  • Manager responsibility and accountability for safety and health in the workplace
  • Introducing managing safely key reasons – moral, legal, and financial

Module 2: HAZARDS

Definitions of the terms:

  • Risk
  • Hazard
  • Hazardous event
  • Risk assessment
  • Likelihood
  • Consequence
  • Risk assessment process and risk rating systems
  • Benefits of carrying out risk assessment

Module 3: CONTROLLING RISK

  • Evaluate risk using a risk matrix and control those risks how to reduce risk by applying the hierarchy of risk control?
  • Controlling risks
  • Definition of reasonably practicable
  • Implementing risk controls and their impact on likelihood and consequences
  • Definition of residual risk

Module 4: RESPONSIBILITIES

  • What is reasonably foreseeable?
  • Three knowledge tests – common, industry, and expert knowledge
  • Understanding responsibilities
  • Overview of what the law requires
  • Difference between criminal law and civil law
  • Possible outcomes of not working within the law where to find help and guidance for working within the law?
  • Key parts and the elements of each part of a health and safety management system
  • Why leadership is an essential part of a health and safety management system?
  • Essential principles for good safety and health performance

Module 5: UNDERSTANDING HAZARDS

  • 6 main hazard categories and how hazards can fall into more than one group
  • Environmental
  • Biological
  • Physical
  • Chemical
  • Biological
  • Organisational
  • Organisational hazards in the workplace, their effects, symptoms, and Management

Module 6: REASONS TO INVESTIGATE INCIDENTS

  • Benefits of incident investigation investigating incidents
  • Definition of incident, accident, and near miss
  • Definition of immediate, underlying, and root actions to be taken following an incident
  • Incident reporting
  • Stages of a structured approach to incident investigation

Module 7: MEASURING PERFORMANCE

  • Characteristics of good key performance indicators
  • Differences between proactive and reactive performance indicators
  • Measuring performance
  • Types of information performance indicators
  • What is meant by auditing?
  • Two types of auditing: internal and external
  • Types of evidence used in an audit

This is a 3 day course which will be held virtually.

Cost

As of 2024

£365pp +VAT

For more information and for booking, please contact Rebeckah Richards on reb@ryderpartnership.co.uk or 07956734831.

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