IOSH Managing Safely
This programme will provide delegates with an understanding of health and safety requirements relating to their work activities. It will highlight organisational and human influences on safety at work and focus on a range of risk control measures essential to company activities. It will help to develop an approach to safe working, using the principles outlined in Successful Health and Safety Management HSG65 together with the more fundamental tried and tested techniques of health and safety management.
Description
Programme summary:
- Reasons for managing safely
- Risk assessment
- Principles of risk and safety management
- Civil law liabilities for health and safety failures
- Criminal law responsibilities for health and safety failures
- Requirement to consult on health and safety matters
- Identifying and controlling specific risks such as fire, electricity, work equipment, workplace vehicle movements, display screen equipment, manual handling, noise, and hazardous substances
- Description of workplace control measures
- Principles of accident prevention
At the end of the programme you should be able to:
Understand the full scope of health and safety Apply management principles to create a positive health & safety culture Explain the importance and know what comprises a ‘suitable and sufficient’ risk assessment. Select appropriate precautions and controls to reduce activity risks Understand how the manager’s role relates to both the criminal and civil law Describe a health and safety management system Outline risks associated with a wide range of activities Establish the causes of accidents and apply accident prevention principles Describe the internal and external reporting mechanisms for accidents and incidents Consider how industry affects the environment and list the ways in which individuals can minimise pollution and waste.