Aims:
The course aims to update IOSH Managing Safely Certificate Holders with current information on Health and Safety issues in the workplace and recent changes to key pieces of legislation.
Objectives:
At the end of the course each delegate should be able to:
- Recall the key elements addressed in IOSH Managing Safely
- Outline the 6 stages of Successful Safety Management set out in HSG65
- Develop a positive Safety Culture and a clear Safety Policy to commit everyone to high standards of health and safety
- Detail the recent changes to health and safety legislation
- Reiterate the general principles of risk assessment and risk control
- Prepare and use appropriate active monitoring techniques
- Conduct adequate investigations of accidents and non-compliance with health and safety standards
- Manage a range of newly recognised and client specific workplace hazards incorporating recent changes to any legislative requirements
- Pass a re-certification multiple choice questionnaire
Programme Content:
- Successful Safety Management
- Driving Forces for Safety Management
- HSG65
- Safety Culture
- Human Factors in health and safety
- Elements of safety culture
- Safety policy
- Health and Safety Legislation
- Review of health and safety legislative framework
- Recent changes in health and safety legislation
- Risk Assessment
- 5 steps to Risk Assessment
- Principles of risk control
- Active Monitoring
- Types of workplace Inspections
- Checklists for Inspections
- Keeping records
- Reactive Monitoring
- The causes and effects of accidents
- Human behaviour
- Accident Investigation
- Accident Reporting
- Hazards
- Current potentials for harm in the workplace
- Stress at work
- Lone working including remote and home
- Violence
- Changes in legislation and risk control methods
Requirements:
IOSH Managing Safely Certificate must have been gained within the past three years to join this programme.