Course Overview

The overall aims of the Managing Safely Re-certification course are to remind you of key points learned during the Managing Safely course and introduce some health and safety topics which were not dealt with on the Managing Safely course.

The new topics are as follows:

Human failure - The types of human failure and the difference between human error and a violation.

Reliance on and reliability of risk control measures

Stress

Lone working

Violence at work

Measuring safety culture

In order to obtain a new Managing Safely Certificate you have to complete successfully the assessment at the end of the course. The aim of the re-certification course is to update delegates on key health and safety issues and best practice without them having to re-sit the full course.

Audience

Delegates who have completed IOSH Managing Safely more than three years ago and who want to remain accredited by IOSH.

Skills Gained

A safety management system linking the role of risk assessment

Reactive monitoring: investigations of non-compliance with safety standards, types of human failures and reduction of incidences

Principles of all aspects of risk assessment and risk control

Health and safety legislation: identify recent legislation and it relevance to their responsibilities

Common hazards: minimising risks from a range of hazards by applying general principles, stress at work, lone working, violence at work

General principles of active monitoring: preparation, implementation and analysis

Safety management systems: measure and influence safety culture

Course Outline

Safety management and risk assessment systems

HSG 65, and

Loss Management Model

Reactive monitoring

Reactive monitoring

Non-compliance investigations,

Human failure - types and reasons for human failure

Risk assessment and risk control

Risk rating

Risk control hierarchy

Workplace precautions

Reliability of workplace precautions

Reliance on workplace precautions

Health and safety legislation update, brief overview of recent changes

Work at Heights

CDM

COSHH

Noise

Vibration

Applying general principles to control or minimise risks from:

Stress at work

Stress at work

Violence at work

Active monitoring general principles

Compiling check lists

Compiling check lists

Preparation of statistics

Active Monitoring, review of:

Management activities

Standards to be met

Exercise on use and development of checklists

Safety Culture

What is meant by safety culture?

Measuring your safety culture

Influencing safety culture

Exercise on safety culture

End of course multiple choice test paper

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