
IOSH Approved Managing Safely e-learning
- Showcase your commitment to maintaining a safe working environment.
- Ideal for Supervisors, Managers and Team Leaders
- Rated Outstanding and fully approved by IOSH
- Study Online Fully supported from IOSH-approved tutors
£225.00 Total Price
Assessments
The course is assessed in two parts.
- Multiple choice examination in which candidates must demonstrate what they have learnt.
- Practical assessment in which participants must show how to apply the knowledge they have gained throughout the course to real life situations.
Certification Successful candidates receive an IOSH-approved certificate.
Course Modules
- Introduction
- Assessing Risks
- Controlling Risks
- Understanding Responsibilities
- Understanding Hazards
- Investigating Incidents
- Measuring Performance
- Online Interactive Assessment
- Work Based Risk Assessment
This IOSH Approved Managing Safely® online training course is fully approved and rated as ‘outstanding’ by IOSH
- Highly engaging video-based e-learning
- 100% online – no need for classroom attendance.
- Enjoy unlimited access to the course on a renowned, award-winning Learning Management System.
- All IOSH Managing Safely® training materials are included.
- Duration approximately 75 hours*.
- Get assistance from a dedicated tutor and technical support team for all your questions.
- Complete your final examination and assignment conveniently online upon course completion.
- IOSH course registration fee and certificate is fully included.
- 190-day access to complete the course from the date of enrolment.
- Immediate enrolment and course access available.
- No hidden costs.
- Successful candidates receive an official IOSH Managing Safely® Digital Certificate issued by IOSH.
*depending on learner input, there is no time limit to complete.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this IOSH Approved Managing Safely e-learning course, candidates will be able to:
- Understand the importance of their role in managing health and safety in their workplace
- Define key health and safety terms
- Identify hazards and carry out an effective risk assessment in the workplace
- Describe how to identify, measure and control hazards and risks
- Understand their responsibilities in relation to health and safety at work
- List the steps that need to be taken to effectively investigate incidents
- Apply practical steps to measure the effectiveness of health and safety programmes in the workplace
Modules in Full
Module 1 – Introducing Managing Safely
- The three key moral, legal and financial reasons for managing safely
- Manager responsibility and accountability for safety and health in the workplace
Module 2 – Assessing Risks
- The definitions of the terms hazard, hazardous event and risk
- The definition of the term risk assessment
- The definitions of the terms likelihood and consequence
- The risk assessment process and risk rating system
- The benefits of carrying out risk assessment
Module 3 – Controlling the risks
- The definition of the term ‘reasonably practicable’
- How to evaluate risk using a risk matrix and how to control those risks
- How to reduce risk by applying the ‘hierarchy of risk control’
- How implementing risk controls can impact the likelihood of an incident, consequence of an incident or both factors
- The definition of the term ‘residual risk’
Module 4 – Understanding Responsibilities
- What the law requires an organisation to do to protect the safety and health of workers and other persons under its control
- The definition of the term ‘reasonably foreseeable’
- The three knowledge tests to help determine ‘reasonably foreseeable’ risks: common, industry and expert knowledge
- The difference between criminal law and civil law in relation to safety and health
- The possible outcomes of not working within the law
- Where to find help and guidance for working within the law
- The key parts, and the elements of each part, of a health and safety management system
- The key benefits of introducing a health and safety management system
- Why leadership is an essential part of a health and safety management system
Module 5 – Understanding Hazards
- The six main hazard categories and how hazards can fall into more than one group
- Common hazards in the workplace, their effects and symptoms and how to manage them including:
- Access and egress
- Aggression and violence
- Asbestos
- Bullying
- Chemicals and harmful substances
- Computer workstations
- Confined spaces
- Drugs and alcohol
- Electricity
- Fire
- Heights
- Housekeeping and welfare
- Infection prevention and control
- Lighting
- Manual handling
- Noise
- Plant and machinery
- Radiation
- Slips and trips
- Stress
- Temperature
- Vehicles and transport safety
- Vibration
Module 6 – Investigating Incidents
- The definitions of the terms incident, accident and near miss
- The reasons to investigate incidents
- The benefits of incident investigation
- The definitions of the terms immediate, underlying and root causes in relation to incidents
- The actions to be taken following an incident
- Incident reporting
- The stages of a structured approach to incident investigation
Module 7 – Measuring Performance
- What types of information performance indicators can give to help improve safety and health in the workplace
- The characteristics of good key performance indicators
- The differences between proactive and reactive performance indicators
- What is meant by auditing
- The two types of auditing: internal and external
- Types of evidence used in an audit.

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