IOSH Managing Safely Refresher Course

Course Description

The Managing Safely Refresher Course aims to provide continued support to managers in dealing with health and safety issues in the workplace. Specifically, the course aims to:

a)   Revise key management responsibilities from the Managing Safely course

b)   Update on changes in relevant legislation, standards and good practice

Who Should Attend

This one-day course is designed to facilitate the continuing professional development of personnel who have achieved a Managing Safely Certificate within the last three years, thereby ensuring their continuing competence.

Course Content

The IOSH Managing Safely Refresher Course covers recognising commonly found workplace hazards and know how to control them, determining why accidents involving injury or damage occur in the workplace, it explains how aspects of human behaviour can affect health and safety at work, how to apply principles of good management to health and safety, how to use effective communication and make sure that health and safety law is obeyed within their own workplace, whilst covering the Principles of Management, Health and Safety Law, Accident Causation and Prevention, Risk Assessment and Control, Monitoring Safety Performance, Human Factors and Communications, Occupational Health Hazards, Machinery Safeguarding, Electrical Safety, Fire Prevention, and Manual and Mechanical Handling. Other subjects bespoke to company requirements can also be covered. There are many interactive exercises to enhance the learning experience.

Assessment & Award

The course will be validated by verbal questions and discussions during the topics and a final summative assessment.

Course members who successfully complete the course, including the summative assessment will be entitled to a new Managing Safely Certificate, valid for three years.

Course members who fail to achieve a pass in the summative assessment have a “re-take” facility available to them.  This will be explained during the introduction to the course.

Duration

The IOSH Managing Safely Refresher course is a one day course running from 8.30 am – 5 pm.  The IOSH Managing Safely certificate does not have an expiry date although IOSH recommends that candidates undergo a refresher course every three years.

Cost

Typical fees for open courses are £190 & VAT; however this can vary for in house courses (dependant on location).  The course fees are inclusive of the IOSH Managing Safely Workbook and certification charges.

Venue

We run open IOSH Managing Safely Refresher courses regularly at our Training Centre in Rainham, Kent.

Download a copy of the Course outline here

Upcoming IOSH Managing Safely Courses

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