Course description
This is a very popular, comprehensive, practical and experiential programme, covering:
- Assessing risks: Defines and demystifies risk and risk assessment. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and participants carry out assessments.
- Controlling risks: Cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks and how to choose the right methods.
- Understanding your responsibilities: The legal framework; health & safety management systems.
- Identifying hazards: The main issues any organisation has to deal with: 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.
- Investigating accidents and incidents: Why accidents should be investigated, why things go wrong and how to carry out an investigation when they do.
- Measuring performance: How checking performance can help to improve health & safety. How to develop basic performance indicators. Auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.
- Protecting the environment: Introduction to waste and pollution. How organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down their environmental impacts.
Upcoming start dates
Choose between 2 start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Managers, team leaders and supervisors.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The programme enables participants to:
- Assess and control risks and hazards
- Understand their own responsibilities for safety and health
- Investigate incidents
- Measure their own performance
- Reflect on good practice and plan how to ensure the safety of the staff for whom they are responsible
Course delivery details
A four-day programme, for up to 12 people, with a multiple-choice test and a risk assessment project on the last day, the successful completion of which qualifies participants for the IOSH Award, Managing Safely.
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The In-House Training Company
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AL5 2FB Harpenden
The In-House Training Company
We offer top-quality in-house training, in a wide range of subjects, at sensible prices. All of our programmes are delivered by independent subject specialists who also have outstanding training skills. We have rigorous standards and only work with the very...
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