The demand for safety experts is so high that every year around 100,000 candidates are getting certified by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) as competent workplace safety and health professionals who are capable of safeguarding workers from all risks and hazards.

IOSH has made its safety training courses ideal for line managers, health and safety inspectors and supervisors who lead a group of workers. IOSH training courses are for everyone, irrespective of qualification and nature of industry.

Every worker must aware of risks and hazards exist within their workplace and must be trained to overcome them. IOSH training intends to encourage personal well-being and cultural safety.

IOSH courses content train candidates to follow the best safety practices irrespective of industries, job roles and countries.

Candidates joining for IOSH managing safely certificate course will be trained to follow the Safety Management Systems along with best practices for effective management of health & safety at work.

This popular IOSH safety course has been designed to suit the needs of those in the managerial positions which include team leaders, supervisors or safety officers.

The advantages of IOSH Safety Management Systems are often underplayed by workers and management representatives, but on the contrary, a well tuned safety management system can help any business to avoid losses and setbacks caused by accidents and mishaps.

The course aims to make students understand the risks and their effective management to avoid incidents.

This IOSH course is available via online with excellent all-time support from qualified tutors with no extra cost. Students should choose the learning mode while joining the course.

The IOSH course content has 7 modules to learn, covering a wide range of topics. Students can choose the time to appear for the exam and project after they finish all the modules.

• Understanding three important moral, financial and legal reasons for Managing Safely
• Responsibility and accountability of workplace managers on safety and health of employees

• Understanding the terms like ‘risks, ‘hazardous events’ and ‘hazards’
• Learning the term ‘risk assessment’
• Differentiate and understand terms ‘likelihood’ and ‘consequence’
• Analysis of risk assessment process and risk rating systems
• Advantages of doing risk assessment

• Learning about ‘reasonably practicable’
• Risk evaluation procedures using a risk matrix and risk control measures
• Reducing risk by following ‘hierarchy of risk control’
• Impacts of risk control measures in controlling the ‘possible’ incident or reduce the impact of an accident.
• How to define and understand the term ‘residual risk’
• In modules two and three students are exposed to practical activities to recognise risks and hazards and how to assess and control them.

• About safety regulations employers should follow to protect workers from workplace risks and dangers.
• Comprehending of ‘reasonably foreseeable’
• Determining the ‘reasonably foreseeable’ risks through common, industry and expert knowledge tests.
• Understanding the difference between the civil law and criminal law with regard to workplace safety and health.
• Impacts of not functioning within the law
• Where to get support and guidance to work within the law
• Understanding the key parts and also the elements of each part, of health and safety management system
• The prime benefits of implementing health and safety management system
• Why leadership is important for effective health and safety management system

• The analysis of six major hazard categories and how they represent more than one group.
• Knowledge of common hazards at workplaces, symptoms, health effects and how to tackle them.

• How to define the critical terms: ‘accident’, ‘incident’ and ‘near miss’
• Why to investigate incidents?
• Benefits of probing incidents
• Understanding of the terms such as ‘immediate’, ‘underlying’ and ‘root’ in relation to incidents
• What actions to be taken after an incident
• How to report an incident
• Different stages of a systematic approach to incident investigation

• Three critical principles to maintain good safety and health performance
• Understanding different kinds of information performance indicators that can improve workplace safety and health
• Characteristics of key performance indicators
• How do ‘proactive’ and ‘reactive’ performance indicators differ with each other?
• Understanding of ‘auditing’
• Two types of auditing – internal and external
• Kinds of evidences used in a risk audit

The IOSH course schedule has been planned into to two parts – IOSH exam and an IOSH project.

Students have to write online a multi-choice examination of 30 interactive questions, thoughtfully prepared by IOSH.

You will be given a work-based project assignment – mostly on Risk Assessment on a real-life scenario which will be assessed by your dedicated tutor.

Once you have obtained the IOSH managing safely certificate successfully, you can further improve your qualification and knowledge by choosing the best course from our course catalogue on health and safety. These courses are made to expand your knowledge and skills and help you secure better job with better pay.

The NEBOSH General certificate in health & safety can be the correct move for you to go for the next higher qualification. Come to us for the best professional advice if you’re not sure about choosing the right course for your career progression.