Course Aims

This course is aimed at ensuring safety requirements are appreciated by people employed as line manager, and to enable them to review their own departmental systems for safety, introducing new controls or implementing changes as appropriate to ensure safety in the workplace.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course the delegates will be able to: -

·         Explain working safely and the component parts of a recognised safety management system.

·         Identify the data and techniques required to produce and adequate record of an incident and demonstrate the procedures for an accident investigation.

·         Describe statutory requirements for reporting and procedures for checking for non-reporting.

·         Describe methods of analysis for reactive monitoring.

·         Define hazard and risk and describe the legal requirements of risk assessment.

·         Demonstrate a practical understanding of quantative risk assessment technique.

·         Describe workplace precaution hierarchies.

·         Prepare and use active monitoring checklists and implement schedules for active monitoring, recording results and analysing records.

·         Outline the main provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

·         Outline relevant health and safety legislation, codes of practice, guidance notes and information sources.

Course Duration

Five Days.

Pre-requisites

There are no particular educational or competence pre-requisites for the course. However, the following factors are important: -

·         Sound literacy skills

Personal Protective Equipment

This course has both classroom and practical elements (subject to client specification). No PPE will be required for the classroom element, the delegates will however require whatever PPE is normally required within the environment of the practical assessment should this be undertaken in the delegate’s workplace.

The protective equipment must comply with current safety standards.

Certification

An IOSH Managing Safely Certificate will be awarded to the delegate on successful completion of the written and practical assessments.

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