This Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Certified four-day course is for those required to manage safely and effectively in compliance with both their organisation`s policy and best practice in health and safety.

Taking a proactive, risk management driven approach to health and safety, Managing Safely is based on:

• Identification and achievement of desired workplace behaviours
• Skills based training with practical exercises wherever possible
• Formal assessment of skills as well as underpinning knowledge
• Best practice rather than legislation, allowing international delivery of training

The aim of this course is to ensure that safety requirements are appreciated by people employed as line managers and to enable them to review their own departmental systems for safety, introducing new controls or implementing changes as appropriate to make the department work more safely.

Objectives: On successful completion of this course delegates should:

• Understand their responsibilities
• Have the practical ability to manage health and safety issues in the workplace
• Have an understanding of health, safety and environmental management systems and their business benefits
• Be able to implement risk assessment and control strategies
• Have a basic understanding of common hazards including; fire, electricity, working at height, stress, noise, vibration, chemicals and workplace transport