IOSH Managing Safely

Overview

– To give managers and supervisors an understanding of everyone’s safety and health responsibilities in the workplace.
– To enable managers and supervisors to recognise how they can influence, control and monitor risk to improve safety and health issues in the workplace.

Learning

• Describe the key reasons to manage safety and health in the workplace.
• Define the key terms relating to safety and health.
• Identify how the law can have an impact on safety and health in the workplace.
• Describe how to assess, reduce and control risk in the workplace.
• Identify workplace hazards and risks, their impact and how to manage them.
• Identify how to evaluate and respond to an incident.
• List the benefits and characteristics of an effective health and safety management system.
• Describe the principles that underpin good safety and health performance.

Other

IOSH written assessment and risk assessment project to complete.

Assessment

Quantitative assessment (For example: exam, quiz, written assignments, or a risk assessment)