Managing SafelyOnline Course User Guide
2Introduction 3
Module 1: Introducing Managing Safely 4
Module 2: Risk Assessment 5
Module Objectives 5
Module 3: Risk Control 6
Module Objectives 6
Module 4: Your Responsibilities as a Manager 7
Module Objectives 7
Module 5: Identifying Hazards 8
Module Objectives 8
Module 6: Investigating Accidents and Incidents 9
Module Objectives 9
Module 7: Measuring Performance 10
Module Objectives 10
Module 8: Protecting Our Environment 11
Module Objectives 11
The Course Tutor 12
Managing Safely Questions and Assessments 13 - 14
Managing Safely Project 15 - 17
Managing Safely Administration 18 - 19
3.0 Contents
3Congratulations, as a participant in an IOSH health and safety course you are one of the thousands of people every year who take part in training accredited by the Institution, which is Europes leading
professional body for health and safety practitioners. The Institution works to advance the health, safety and welfare of people at work, and those affected by work activities.
This Course User Guide is designed to:
Provide you with an overview of the online course content, including the different types of questions and assessments you will encounter
Provide you with all the necessary information, including the formal brief, enabling you to complete the course Project
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Explain any relevant matters of administration; in particular what you have to do when you have completed the course, the final assessment and the project in order to receive your Managing Safely certificate
Good luck and enjoy this Managing Safely course.
3.0 Introduction
4Module Objectives
Having completed this module you will be able to:
State the structure and content of the course
Explain the legal, moral and financial reasons for managing safely
Explain managers responsibilities and accountabilities for health and safety
Unit 1: Course Aims and Content
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
State the structure and content of the course
Explain how the assessments and project are undertaken
Describe the tutor support
Unit 2: Why Managing Safely is Important
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Describe the legal, moral and financial reasons for managing safely
Explain the consequences of failing to manage safely for the organisation and the individual
Unit 3: Your Responsibilities as a Manager
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
List the benefits of effective health and safety management
Explain the role of leadership in creating a positive health and safety culture and effective health and safety systems
As a manager, describe your responsibilities for health and safety
Module 1 Introducing Managing Safely
Module Objectives
Having completed this module you will be able to:
Explain what is meant by the term risk
Explain the purpose of risk assessment
Describe the process of risk assessment
Unit 1: The Meaning of Risk
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain what is meant by the term hazard
Explain what is meant by the term risk
Describe how a hazardous event occurs
Explain the terms likelihood and consequence
Unit 2: The Meaning of Risk Assessment
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain the purpose of risk assessment
State who is responsible for conducting risk assessments
List the benefits of risk assessment
Unit 3: How to Carry Out Risk Assessment
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Describe the risk assessment process
Using a case study, estimate likelihood and consequence
Using a case study, calculate a risk rating
Explain the range of available actions following rating of the risk
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Module 2 Risk Assessment
6Module 3 Risk Control
Module Objectives
Having completed this module you will be able to:
Explain how health and safety risks are reduced
Describe how to decide which risk controls to use
Unit 1: Reducing Risk
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain the effect on risk of reducing likelihood and consequence
Using a case study, demonstrate how likelihood and consequence is reduced in practice
Explain what is meant by the term residual risk
Unit 2: The Risk Control Hierarchy
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Describe the risk assessment hierarchy and explain each element of it
Explain how and why weaknesses occur in risk control measures
Using a case study, undertake an exercise in controlling risks
Unit 3: Identifying the Right Method of Risk Control
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain the principle of reasonably practicable
Describe the factors you must consider before deciding whether a control measure is reasonably practicable
7Module 4 Your Responsibilities as a Manager
Module Objectives
Having completed this module you will be able to:
Describe your legal responsibilities in respect of health and safety
Explain how UK criminal and civil law works
Explain and describe the key elements of a health and safety management system
Unit 1: Your Legal Responsibilities
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
List the benefits that accrue as a result of understanding your responsibilities and taking steps to fulfil them
Explain the principle of the reasonable person and its implications for you as a manager
Explain how, using key tests, risks can be said to be reasonably foreseeable
Unit 2: Criminal Law and Civil Law
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Describe the legal implications of health and safety failure
Explain how criminal law and civil law apply in the health and safety context
Explain the differences between statute law, common law and European Community law
Explain the function of the health and safety enforcement authorities
Unit 3: Health and Safety Management Systems
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain how management systems use the methodology of Plan-Do-Check-Act
Describe the benefits of a health and safety management system
List and explain the six elements of an effective health and safety management system
8Module 5 Identifying Hazards
Module Objectives
Having completed this module you will be able to:
List the common hazards found in most workplaces
Describe how to manage the risks arising from these common hazards
Unit 1An Introduction to Common Workplace Hazard
Unit 5Slips and Trips
Unit 9DSE & Workstations
Unit 13Violence
Unit 17Lighting
Unit 2Fire and Emergency Procedures
Unit 6Vehicles at Work
Unit 10Noise
Unit 14Bullying
Unit 18Housekeeping & Welfare
Unit 3Electricity
Unit 7 Working at Height
Unit 11Hazardous Substances
Unit 15 Stress
Unit 19Machinery
Unit 4Vibration
Unit 8Manual Handling
Unit 12Access to Work Areas
Unit 16Temperature
9Module 6 Investigating Accidents and Incidents
Module Objectives
Having completed this module you will be able to:
Explain why it is important and necessary to investigate accidents and incidents
Explain how accidents and incidents happen
Describe how to carry out an accident or incident investigation
Unit 1: Why Investigation is Necessary
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain the difference between accidents and incidents
Explain why it is important and necessary to investigate accidents and incidents
Unit 2: How Accidents and Incidents Happen
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain how accidents and incidents happen
Using a case study, explain what is meant by immediate, underlying and root causes
Using a case study, explain what is meant by causal factor tree analysis
Unit 3: Carrying Out Investigations
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Describe what your initial responses should be to an accident at work
Describe how to carry out an accident or incident investigation
Explain the requirements for reporting an accident, dangerous occurrence or disease to the enforcement authority
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Module 7 Measuring Performance
Module Objectives
Having completed this module you will be able to:
Explain the principle of performance measurement
Describe how to measure health and safety performance
Explain what is meant by auditing
Unit 1: Understanding Performance Measurement
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain the principle of performance measurement
Explain where performance measurement fits on the Plan Do Check Act cycle
Describe the factors that can be established through performance measurement
Unit 2: How Health and Safety Performance is Measured
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Describe what is meant by reactive and proactive measurement and explain why both are essential to measuring health and safety performance
Explain how injury incident rates are calculated
Unit 3: Auditing Health and Safety Management Systems
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Describe what is meant by health and safety auditing
Explain the difference between internal and external audit
Describe the audit process
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Module 8 Protecting Our Environment
Module Objectives
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain how the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle applies to environmental management systems
Describe the structure of an EMS and explain how it operates
List and explain the benefits of an EMS
Unit 1: Industry and the Environment
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain what we mean by the term environment
List the main environmental impacts
Explain how air, land and water pollution occurs
List the main sources of waste
Unit 2: Controlling Pollution and Waste
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain the difference between environmental aspects and impacts
List the organisational activities that should be addressed in order to control pollution
Describe how such activities should be addressed
Describe the waste management process
Unit 3: Environmental Management Systems
Having completed this unit you will be able to:
Explain how the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle applies to environmental management systems
Describe the structure of an EMS and explain how it operates
List and explain the benefits of an EMS
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Throughout the time you are working on this course you will have access to a course tutor who will be able to help you if there is anything you do not understand or need explaining more fully.
Your tutor can be contacted by email or fax, and these details can be found by clicking on the Resources tab at the top of the screen.
Your tutor may not be immediately available, but he will respond to you within 48 hours of your contacting him. Before contacting your tutor you may wish to try and resolve any queries yourself by talking to your
organisational sponsor or your health and safety manager.If you cant resolve your query, problem or issue, however, contact your tutor straight away to ensure your progress through the course is disrupted as little as possible.
Note that the course tutor also appears in the course itself! He appears as a virtual tutor whenever there is a particularly important or complex learning point, and will provide you with additional information, a summary or a different perspective on the subject in hand.
The Course Tutor
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The course is designed to be interesting, interactive and enjoyable. It is important, however, that you both understand and remember what you learn after all, lives could depend on it! For this reason, the course contains a range of interactive mechanisms designed
to help you achieve this aim. It also contains various types of questions and assessments which regularly enable you to satisfy yourself that you really do understand the subject in hand.
Managing Safely Questions and Assessments
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Managing Safely Questions and Assessments cont.
Note that you will be unable to enter the Final Assessment until you have passed all the End of Unit Assessments. This ensures that you do not attempt the Final Assessment until you are ready, and should also give you confidence in your ability to pass it.
If you do not pass the Final Assessment first time you may re-sit it.
The questions contained within the assessment are drawn randomly from a large bank of questions; this means that the same questions are never asked in any two Final Assessments.
Knowledge Check question screens appear at regular intervals, providing variety by breaking up the learning content screens and enabling you to check you understand what has just been discussed. Feedback on your answer is provided in all cases so that, if you happen to get one wrong, you know why.
The third type of online assessment is the Final Assessment. This multi-choice question assessment is designed to test your overall understanding of the key course elements, and it is only by passing the Final Assessment that you can earn the Managing Safely Certificate. Dont feel daunted by the Final Assessment; you will not be asked anything that isnt covered within the course.
On completing each learning unit you will find a set of End of Unit Assessment questions, usually between two and four. These questions are intended to check that you have understood the key learning points in the unit, and once again provide you with feedback on your answers.
Note that you must pass the End-of-Unit Assessment to successfully complete the unit.
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The Managing Safely Project
As part of the Managing Safely assessment procedure, you must complete a project and have it assessed. The project requires you to inspect a suitable workplace, describe 9 different hazards and then carry out a written risk assessment of 3 of them, using the 5 x 5 matrix system. If you work in a very low risk area, for instance a relatively hazard free office, you may wish to extend the area studied or use another area that
enables you to consider a wider range of hazards for your project. For instance you may be able to use a delivery bay, a car park, or a maintenance workshop. Alternatively you could seek permission from your employer to conduct the activity in a different organisation to your own, but one presenting more scope for your project.
Completing the Project Successfully
The purpose of the project is to enable you to demonstrate that you can put into practise what you have learnt on the course. You are required to show that you can identify a range of hazards in the workplace, and that you recognise all the different groups of people whose safety may be affected by those hazards.
Whilst carrying out the project you are encouraged to talk to those who work in the area concerned, and to refer to the course materials if you wish to clarify anything.
N.B.1 The Project must be handwritten on the project submission forms provided. We cannot accept submissions on any other form, nor can we consider or mark any extra materials or attachments sent in with the form.
N.B.2 You must complete all parts of every page, even where the information is repeated, and particularly in Parts 5 and 6, which simulate a written Risk Assessment document that may be reviewed by another person at some point. It is important therefore, that you provide all the information that a reviewer or auditor, who is not familiar with your workplace, might need.
Blanks and dittos get no marks.
You are strongly advised to keep a copy of your project and to send it to us by recorded post.
The Project document and instructions can be obtained by clicking on Resources on the top bar of the main menu screen, and is a PDF document. For your convenience a copy has also been included with this user guide.
There is a two week time limit for the return of the project.
Once the project has been sent to us for marking, only those who need to re submit their project will be contacted. Certificates will be issued during the second week of the month following their marking i.e. if you submit and pass your project during January, your certificate will be sent to you during the second week in February.
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Please read all of the instructions before starting work on your project.
A video of the course tutor describing how you should approach the project can be viewed by clicking on the Resources tab in the course. The project is broken down into a number of parts. Please complete each part as detailed below.
This part of the project is designed to enable you to give the examiner a brief description of the place that you have chosen, and what its function is, as well as an indication that you have considered the full range of things that could present a hazard, and the different groups of people whose health and safety could be affected.
Details of what is required are printed in the header to each box.
This part requires you to record a brief description of 3 (three) location hazards associated with the workplace itself: the structures, layout, or fixtures of the site, for example holes in a floor, worn steps and dangerous vehicle routes.
For each of these hazards you must include:
A description of the location
A description of the hazard
The number and occupation of people who could be affected by the hazard
Whether a risk assessment is recommended
For this part you must record a brief description of 3 (three) hazards associated with the equipment and substances that are on the site. Examples might be badly guarded parts of machinery, damaged electrical leads, generation of high levels of noise, slip hazards or substances that could cause injury or ill health to people.
N.B. It is vital to describe hazards that relate to the items themselves, not to the things people do with them.
N.B. Different hazards to those in Part 2. For each of these hazards please include:
A description of permanent and/or temporary items of equipment and substances used
A description of the hazard
The number and occupation of people who could be affected by the hazard
Whether a risk assessment is recommended
Here you must record a brief description of 3 (three) hazards associated with the activities on site i.e. things that people DO or DONT DO. Examples might be: not wearing hearing protection in a noisy area, using machines or tools incorrectly, walking where one should not, etc.
N.B. The descriptions of these activity hazards always need a verb (a doing word).
N.B. Different hazards to those in Parts 2 and 3. For each of these hazards please include:
A description of the work activity
A description of the hazard
The number and occupation of people who could be affected by the hazard
Whether a risk assessment is recommended
Project Instructions
Part 1 - Description of the work tasks that are your responsibility
Part 2 - A hazard checklist of the location(s)
Part 4 - A hazard checklist of the activities carried out within your work environment
Part 3 - A hazard checklist of permanent and/or temporary items of equipment and substances used in your work environment
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Parts 5 and 6 consider the 3 hazards from Part 4 in more detail, assess them using the 5 x 5 matrix system, describe what controls are in place and what improvements should be made, and examine how you would know if those improvements worked or not.
Part 5 requires you to carry out a risk assessment on all three of the activity hazards you have listed on Part 4. Please make sure you include:
A description of the work activity
A description of the hazard, hazardous event and expected consequence
The number and occupation of people affected
An assessment of risk (you must use the 5 x 5 matrix)
Whether risk controls are required
N.B. For the purpose of this exercise all three activity hazards that you are assessing in Part 5 must require risk controls in order to gain marks in Part 6.
Please complete the risk control form for all 3 (three) activity hazards you have listed on Part 4.
Please make sure you include:
A description of the work activity and risk level from the risk assessment you completed in Part 5
Existing risk controls
Any further risk controls required
The residual risk ( please use the 5 x 5 matrix)
A description of the type of monitoring required and how often
N.B. Where you have large numbers of hazards in your work environment you will not have space to record them all. In these circumstances, select a representative sample of hazards for the purposes of this project and record only these.
Remember that three different hazards are required for each of Parts 2, 3, and 4. Do not submit any additional material in support of your project work as only the six parts of the project will be assessed.
Each part has a maximum number of marks which can be awarded and details are given in the table below.
Project Instructions cont.
Part 5 - Carrying out a risk assessment
Part 6 - Risk control recommendations
Part Maximum marks 1 19 2 18 3 18 4 18 5 43 6 39
Total 155 Minimum mark 78
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Once you have placed your order you will receive your user access details.
Note that you must complete the course within 3 months of receiving your user access details.
Complete all the course content and pass all End of Unit Assessments.
Undertake the online Final Assessment.
If you do not pass the Final Assessment first time you may re-sit it, though clearly it may be advisable to revisit appropriate parts of the course content to check your understanding before doing so.
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Managing Safely Administration
As a busy manager the last thing you want when you undertake training is to be bogged down with administration and paperwork! For this reason we have kept the admin side of things very easy and manageable.
All you need to do is follow the simple process outlined below and the route from commencing your course to receiving your IOSH Managing Safely Certificate will be straightforward and trouble free.
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Confirm successful completion of the Final Assessment with IOSH.
In order to do this you will require the Unique ID code given to you by your manager or learning&safety4business vendor.
Ensuring you have your UniqueID code to hand, click on the Certificate tab in the top bar of the Mainmenu / course screen.
Enter your Unique ID code into the box indicated, and then click the submit button.
Complete the project (for details see Managing Safely Project on page 16 of this User Guide).
Remember that you must complete and return the project within two weeks of passing the Final Assessment.
Your project must be posted to learning&safety4business with your Certificate of Completion. Please remember to include your contact details (including email address) to ensure your submission is dealt with promptly.
Your project will be assessed by an IOSH approved health and safety practitioner.
If you achieve the requisite standard in your project you will receive your IOSH Managing Safely Certificate by recorded delivery.
If you do not achieve the requisite standard you will be offered written feedback and invited to re-submit your project for assessment within 2 weeks of being advised of the result.
IOSH Administration Team
Safety4Business
1st Floor
Fromehall Mill
Lodgemore Lane
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 3EH
Tel: +44 (0) 1453 756000
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1st Floor Fromehall Mill Lodgemore LaneStroud Gloucestershire GL5 3EH
T: + 44 (0) 1453 756000 F: + 44 (0) 1453 751148
Email: [email protected]: www.safety4business.com
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