IOSH managing safely recertification

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

• Incident investigation
• 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
• Lone working
• Violence at work

Active monitoring general principles

• Compiling check lists
• Analysis of collected data
• 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

IOSH managing safely recertification / CM032339