IOSH MS V 5.0

IOSH Managing Safely Course Outline:

The IOSH Managing Safely course typically covers the following key areas:
Introducing Managing Safely:

This module covers the moral, legal, and financial reasons for managing safety and health, as well as the responsibilities of managers.

Assessing Risks:

This module focuses on defining key terms like hazard, risk, and risk assessment, and introduces the risk assessment process.

Controlling Risks:

This module explores the concept of "reasonably practicable," risk matrices, the hierarchy of risk control, and the impact of implementing risk controls.

Understanding Responsibilities:

This module provides an overview of legal requirements for health and safety, the concept of "reasonably foreseeable," and the differences between civil and criminal law.

Common Hazards:

This module covers various workplace hazards, including mechanical, physical, chemical, environmental, biological, and organizational hazards.

Investigating Accidents and Incidents:

This module focuses on the process of investigating accidents and incidents to identify root causes and prevent future occurrences.

Measuring Performance:

This module explores methods for measuring health and safety performance and identifying areas for improvement.

Protecting the Environment:

Some versions of the course also include a module on environmental protection.

Human Factors:

Some training providers like Astutis include a bonus module on human factors, which explores organizational factors that can affect safety, such as safety culture, human error, and risk perception.

Course Overview & Detail

IOSH Managing Safely is a course that gives managers and supervisors the knowledge and skills they need to manage health and safety within their teams.

IOSH Managing Safely covers responsibilities for health and safety, hazard identification, assessing and controlling risks, accident investigation and measuring performance.

IOSH Managing Safely gives managers the confidence to drive health and safety performance within their teams and to improve the health and safety culture of their organisation as a whole.