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.