Why Attend
IOSH Managing Safely is an ideal course for any individual in a supervisory or management position to understand why and how to manage safety within their organization effectively.
IOSH Managing Safely takes participants through the essential steps in effective health and safety management, from identifying and assessing risks and developing control methodologies, to understanding personal and corporate responsibilities.
The course also includes vital information on the importance of incident investigations and how to conduct an investigation, to identify the root causes of incidents to reduce the risk of repeating similar incidents.
IOSH Managing Safety provides critical information on how to set leading and positive performance goals and track success against these to drive positive health and safety culture within organizations.
Course Methodology
The course includes relevant videos and written course material. Delivery of the course involves significant amounts of group discussion and small group work, with participants expected to feed back their assessments to the wider group for discussion.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Implement risk assessment methods to identify and rank health and safety risks within their business
Develop controls to reduce or mitigate these risks to minimize business exposure
Understand both personal and corporate responsibilities relating to health and safety
Have an understanding of how to investigate incidents to reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence
Develop methods of measuring performance against health and safety targets
Target Audience
IOSH Managing Safely is designed for managers and supervisors in any sector, and any organization worldwide. The course provides the knowledge, skills and tools to tackle the safety and health issues that they’re responsible for.
Importantly, Managing Safely makes a powerful case for safety and health being an integral part of day-to-day management and business.
Target Competencies
Hazard identification
Risk assessment and risk ranking
Health and safety critical control selection and implementation
Incident investigation tools
Performance measurement
Course Outline
Introducing Managing Safely
What is your role in influencing managing safely?
Assessing risks
Hazard and hazardous events
What is a risk assessment?
How are risk assessments carried out
Identifying hazards
Assessing risk – risk matrix
Recording and communicating findings
Dynamic risk assessments
Controlling risks
Reduction of likelihood
Reduction of severity
How do you decide which control to use?
Hierarchy of risk control
Human behavior factors
Benefits of risk reduction vs time, cost and effort
Putting risk control into practice
Understanding responsibilities
Duty holder responsibilities
How does the law work?
Reasonably foreseeable risks
Reasonably practicable controls
Civil law vs criminal law
UAE and International Legal Frameworks
Key parts of a health and safety management system
Understanding hazards
Mechanical hazards
Physical hazards
Chemical hazards
Biological hazards
Environmental hazards
Organizational hazards
What can you do to reduce or mitigate these hazards?
Investigating incidents
Importance of near miss reporting and investigation
How do incidents happen?
Causal tree
Immediate causes
Underlying causes
Root causes
How do you carry out an investigation?
Measuring performance
What’s performance measurement about?
How do you measure health and safety performance?
Indicators, reactive and proactive
Proactive measures
Reactive measures
Standard reporting figures
Safety pyramid
What is auditing?
INFORMATECH is the region’s leading provider of in-house custom-designed courses. We have been tailoring in-house solutions for our clients aimed at helping them achieve short term training wins or long term strategic requirements. In addition to being significantly cost effective, these courses are constantly in demand because they:
If you did not find the appropriate date or venue suitable for you, or you would like to join the course online, you can request a custom course from the link below.
We offer group and corporate discounts on many courses. These discounts are available for clients who want to maximize their return on investment.
We offer individual discounts on many courses for people who are self-sponsored and make their payment in full and upfront at the time of registration.
Nominations to our public courses are to be processed by the client’s HR/Training department except for self-nominations which are to be paid in advance using the “payment by self” option on the online registration form. A refund will be issued back to the client in the event of course cancellation or seat unavailability. Registration confirmation is subject to INFORMATECH's review of registration request and seat availability.
Clients are responsible for any type of tax levied in their country.
If you are interested in having a course custom-designed for your organization, please submit a request using the link below. Once we receive your duly completed request, one of our business development professionals or consultants will get in touch with you to understand your requirements with more detail and answer any relevant questions you may have. After all pertinent information has been exchanged, we will work on the custom-designed request and send you the proposal you require and work with you to identify the ideal period and place for delivering the custom-designed solution.