You may be able to study this course at either Boston College, Skirbeck Road, Boston or South Lincolnshire College, Red Lion Quarter, Spalding.
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has revised the Managing Safely Course to address the safety and health training needs of the non-expert.
This is a practical and certificated course which we run over 4 days. It concludes with a multi format assessment and a practical project which can be completed back in the workplace and handed in to the trainer within two weeks of the course ending
The course is designed to help supervisors, line managers and senior managers meet their health and safety obligations. Many safety practitioners and union safety representatives start with this course if they have not undertaken any formal health and safety training previously.
WHAT WILLI DO
The course is highly participative with tutor presentations supported by the use of practical exercises, syndicate work and feedback sessions.
This course has recently been reduced to 4 days. The syllabus is divided into 8 main units, these are:
1. Introducing managing safely.
Some managers may see health and safety as an add-on to their role –even an intrusion. The first module makes it clear that managers are accountable for their teams, and makes a persuasive case for managing safely.
2. Assessing risks
This module defines and demystifies ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and delegates carry out a series of assessments.
3. Controlling risks
Here the session tackles cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks, and how to choose the right method.
4. Understanding your responsibilities
This module looks at the demands of the law and how the legal system works, and introduces a health and safety management system.
5. Identifying hazards
All the main issues any operation has to deal with are covered in this module – entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise, housekeeping and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, working at height, computers and manual handling.
6. Investigating accidents and incidents
The session starts with why accidents should be investigated, and goes onto cover why things go wrong, and how to carry out an investigation when they do.
7. Measuring performance
This module explains how checking performance can help to improve health and safety. Delegates learn how to develop basic performance indicators, and get to grips with auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.
8. Protecting our environment
A short but effective introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts.
Introduction of the work based project, what is required and how it will be marked.
Short revision period and assessment preparation
Multi format assessment (1 hour)
Course wind up and evaluation
None
NEBOSH General Certificate (although IOSH is not an entry requirement for NEBOSH)
For further information on this course please contact the Work Focused Training team on 01205 313 242.
The Information on this Course Information Sheet is correct at time of print, but can be subject to change at anytime.