Course Description
The course is designed as an introduction to effectively managing safety and health in the workplace. The Managing Safely program concentrates on training the manager or supervisor to apply sound management principles to safety and health issues as part of a total risk management strategy.

What Do Participants Learn?
On successful completion of the course the delegate will be able to:
- Apply basic management principles and practices to safety and health issues as part of a total management strategy.
- Set practicable safety and health objectives and plan and implement courses of action to achieve them.
- Recognise safety and health hazards present in the workplace and the types of control measures needed to manage them.
- Take account of risks from work activities arising from human factors.
- Ensure that adequate information, training and supervision is provided for employees in the organisation.
- Investigate incidents involving injury or damage in order to determine the causes and take appropriate remedial action.
- Communicate effectively on safety and health issues with superiors, the workers they are responsible for and safety and health professionals.
- Have a basic knowledge of health and safety legislation and understand the main legal responsibilities of employers and managers and act to fulfil them.
Who Should Attend?
Supervisors and managers who are required to manage efficiently and effectively in compliance with both their organisation’s safety policy and safety and health legislation.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: Introducing managing safely
- Understanding what is meant by health and safety
- The moral, legal and financial reasons to manage health and safety
- Managers responsibilities and accountability
Section Two: Assessing & Controlling Risks
- Sensible risk management
- The risk assessment process
- Specific cases for risk assessment
Controlling risks- The legal framework for Risk Management
- Hierarchies of control
- Required levels of control
- Safety Systems of Work (SSW) and Permits to Work (PTW)
- Emergency arrangements
Section Three: Understanding responsibilities
- Health and safety law; civil, criminal and levels of legal duties
- Enforcement of health and safety
- Health and safety management systems; plan, do, check, act
Section Four: Understanding hazards
- Access and Egress
- Aggression, bullying and violence
- Asbestos, chemical and substances
- Confined spaces
- Drugs and alcohol
- Electricity, Lighting
- Fire
- Housekeeping
- Manual handling
- Noise
- Radiation
- Slips, trips and falls
- Stress, Vibration
- Welfare facilities
- Work equipment and machinery, transport, temperature, height
Section Five: Investigating incidents & Measuring Performance
- The difference between accidents and near-miss
- Accident ratios/accident triangles
- Accident causation theories
- The reasons for investigating an accident
- Responding to an accident
- The investigation process
- RIDDOR
- Active and reactive monitoring systems
- Health and safety auditing