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Overview

Duration: 5 Days

Managing safely won't turn delegates into safety experts - but it will give them the knowledge and tools to tackle the health and safety issues they're responsible for. Importantly, it brings home just why health and safety is such an essential part of their job.

This course is unlike any other; delegates will find a practical programme, full of step by step guidance, and with a sharp business focus. The highly innovative format and content is designed to engage and inspire delegates - critical to getting essential health and safety messages accross.

Succesful delegates are awarded and IOSH Managing Safely certificate, a nationally recognised and respected training accreditation for managers and supervisors.

The training is designed and quality-controlled by the Chartered Body for Health and Safety Professionals and covers two key areas - health and safety and enviromental basics.

Who is the Course For?

Managing safely is designed for managers and supervisors in any sector, and any organisation. It's designed to get managers up to speed on practical actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their teams.

Delivery & Assessment Method

We use a variety of delivery and assessment methods namely:

• Workshops & Tutorials
• Acitivites (Individual & Group)
• Role Play (Individual & Group)
• Group Discussions
• Reflective Learning Exercises
• Assignments*

Candidate Requirements

Candidates are required to:

• Attend all workshops & tutorial days*
• Complete any independant work required between workshops
• Complete Reflective Reviews or Exercises*
• Complete and Submit Assignments*
• Complete or Attend Assessments*

*Only applies to certain qualifications.

What Will They/You Learn?

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Apply basic management principles and practices to health and safety issues as part of a total managment strategy.
• Set achievable health and safety objectives as well as plan and implement courses of action to achieve those objectives.
• Recognise health and safety hazards present in the workplace.
• Take account of risks arising from ergonomic factors.
• Ensure that adequate information, training and supervisions is provided for employees.
• Investigate an accident or incidient involving injury or damage to determine the causes and take appropriate actions.

What Will the Course Cover?

1. Introducing Managing safely

Some managers may see healtha nd 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 a series of assessments.

3. Controlling risks

Here the sessions 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 thelegal 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 hoes on to 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 enviroment

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.

Pre-course Preparation and Assessment

Delegates' understanding of health and safety basics is evaluated using multi-format questions and a risk assessment project, both of which must be completed to gain certification.

Meeting Organisational Needs

If you are representing a business this course can be run exclusively and tailored to suit your company's specific learning requirements and organisational needs. Costs are dependant on number of days required and bespoke content.

For further infomration please call 01656 644300 to speak to our Business Development team or Contact Us via email at info@tsw.co.uk