Managing Safely – Non IOSH accredited

Overview

To give managers and supervisors an understanding of everyone’s safety and health responsibilities in the workplace and 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

• On completion of this course the learner will be able to:
• 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.

Assessment

Qualitative assessment by tutor (For example: observations or demonstrations throughout course)