Once you’ve got an IOSH Managing Safely Course certificate, your skills represent best practice health and safety from IOSH, an internationally recognised Chartered body. But the benefits extend far beyond having a certificate on your wall.
⏰Key points:
- IOSH gives you desirable skills employers need, for example, leadership, a careful approach and the confidence to pipe up when you spot a hazard.
- IOSH is a qualification you can proudly place at the top of your CV and shout about on LinkedIn. It’s respected in every industry.
Who would benefit from IOSH Managing Safely?
The course is open to beginners, in any job role.
Health and safety-specific roles will find the content of the course relevant to their day-to-day jobs, but also give them a broader perspective of health and safety, for instance, how it’s valuable from a HR and financial perspective.
TSW delivers hundreds of courses each year; our groups usually include:
- Programme managers who usually manage safety, health, environment and fire (SHEF) improvement programmes. They also deliver Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP), including Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP), nuclear safety improvement programmes, Trade Unions, and business units and support the development of workplace health and safety.
- Consultants who make sure health and safety is embedded into their business’ projects, deliver training, maintain health and safety engagement across the whole business, and responsible for implementing legislation and UK health and safety changes.
- Maintenance officers responsible for health and safety systems collect relevant data for senior management reports. They organise fire drills, conduct risk assessments, and ensure the business is health and safety compliant.
- Project managers must consider health in safety during any project they’re working on. They work closely with relevant staff to ensure risk assessments, method statements and resources are in place. They’re responsible for ensuring all documents comply with legislation and best practise.
- Surveyors who are responsible for assessing buildings. Often, they’re RICS members and follow its required professional standards and guidelines for good health and safety.
- Contract managers are responsible for the health and safety of all the contractors they employ and anyone else that’s affected by their work. They must ensure everyone understands their health and safety role on a job.
- Safety officers and advisers are usually responsible for preventing injuries, ill health and loss by supporting risk assessments and all health and safety incentives across the business
- HR and support service managers must understand the laws around health, safety and stress at work, as well as what employers are obliged to do to protect their staff.
And many more, both at the senior and entry levels. After the course, you’ll confidently make health and safety decisions that benefit your business regardless of your role.
Why take an IOSH Managing Safely course? – 6 fantastic reasons
There are lots of good reasons to do the IOSH Managing Safely. It’s a moral, fiscal and legal tool for the business, that gives you the confidence to assess risks and keep your workplace safe.
The IOSH Managing Safely certificate gives you leverage in the job market because your skills represent best practice. By signing up for the course, you demonstrate a commitment to comply with changing legislation and health and safety. So, the next time you update your CV, shout about the skills you’ve gained through IOSH Managing Safely.
#1. Demonstrate leadership
The IOSH Managing Safely course gives you independent health and safety initiative. Without being prompted, you’ll identify hazards and know how to follow a precise procedure to get them under control.
You’ll confidently tell your team and wider businesses about hazards, risk, incidents and accidents, recommend controls and allocate responsibility to relevant team members.
You’ll refine your communication and feedback skills so that risks are managed swiftly and effectively.
#2. Take initiative
You’ll take the lead without being prompted. IOSH Managing Safely trains your eye to see risks as you move around your business, the training shows you how to get them sorted out in an appropriate time frame so that everyone stays safe.
IOSH Managing Safely gives you courage in your convictions and a moral view on health and safety.
Your priority is the well-being of everyone at work. At times, you’ll have to intervene if your staff are compromising their safety to get their job done faster, or to meet a deadline.
Your assessment of hazards and risks represents IOSH best practice and benefits everyone involved, and you’ll be confident enough to speak up and put your training into practice.
#3. Have an objective view of health and safety
You put compliance with UK health and safety laws and legislation above everything else. Employers can rely on your judgement and trust that you won’t be distracted from those obligations by internal targets or deadlines.
“The IOSH Managing Safely qualification proves that you have exemplary health and safety standards,” explains our Head of Health and Safety, Luke Pitt.
“You’ll show your colleagues and managers how to spot hazards and assess and control risks the right way and when you complete the course, you’ll have an internationally recognised qualification, with a certificate to prove it.”
#4. Safeguard your team
Employees are safer when you’re around. You limit the risk of accidents at work, and subsequently, reduce injury-related sick leave.
The IOSH Managing Safely course shows you how to put people at the heart of your health and safety work.
By keeping them safe from harm, you’ll reduce their chances of getting hurt, but also limit injury-related leave and sick days. That will give you purpose and a cause to work towards, beyond your to-do list
#5. Protect company finances
The training shows you how to reduce the risk of liability by decreasing the chance of accidents, improving efficiency and realistically controlling hazards with cost-effective means.
You can use Managing Safely as a fiscal management tool.
If your managers are asking you to cut your health and safety budget or contribute commercially, ask to do the Managing Safely course. With the training, you’ll:
- Reduce the risk of liability
- Apply processes that improve efficiency
- Appropriately control hazards based on realistic assessment, so you’re not spending unnecessarily
Considering risks from a commercial perspective is an impressive attribute and not one that your senior staff can ignore when your annual review rolls around.
Use what you learn to keep a record and try to assign a value to it. If you can prove you saved your employer money, it’ll lift you up and give you grounds to negotiate pay rises, promotions and awards.
It is a competitive industry, now more so than ever before. Between 1st and 13th October 2020, searches for ‘health and safety training online’ increased by 110%.
#6. You’ll be one step closer to a professional title
IOSH Managing Safely will set you on your way up the IOSH membership ladder. As soon as you enrol in the course, you can apply for IOSH’s student membership. You can find out more here.
Once you’ve gained a level three qualification (like the NEBOSH General Certificate), you will be eligible to become a Technical Member of IOSH. You will also need two years of relevant experience, but the qualification is a great launchpad.
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So, if it’s your dream to be a Tech IOSH, you must continue your studies after your IOSH Managing Safely. You’ll be asked to join its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme to prove your knowledge and skills are up to date.
Are there alternative courses?
“IOSH Managing Safely training course isn’t the only one, but it’s a great place to start” explains one of TSW’s lead trainers, Luke Pitt.
“It’s an entry-level course, that you could take after completing IOSH Working Safely, or as a complete beginner.
“If you have more experience, or have already taken the IOSH Managing Safely, you could take the NEBOSH General Certificate. It entirely depends on your experience and where you are in your career”
The real choice at this level is between IOSH Managing Safely and NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.
Download TSW Training’s free guides to the IOSH Managing Safely Course and NEBOSH General Certificate today
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Any further questions?
If you’d like to know more about IOSH, the courses they offer and whether they’re the right course for you and your organisation, take a look at our IOSH FAQ page or get in touch with our team of IOSH experts.
