IOSH Managing Safely Refresher

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.