IOSH is the world’s largest health and safety membership body. With over 44,000 members in 99 countries, IOSH is committed to ensuring that global work practices are safe, healthy and sustainable.
What does IOSH stand for?
IOSH stands for Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, the Chartered body for health and safety professionals. IOSH is a UK-based organisation offering professional qualifications in order to raise standards of health and safety in the workplace.
Any consultancy work undertaken by Safeti is carried out or overseen by an IOSH Chartered (CMIOSH) professional. This ensures that the level of competence, work quality and integrity is ensured for your business.
Why consider taking an IOSH course?
IOSH training courses help people in all sectors stay healthy and safe at work. Two main training courses are available: Working Safely and Managing Safely:
- The Working Safely course is aimed at all employees and covers the essentials of health and safety in the workplace.
- The Managing Safely course is aimed at managers, team leaders and supervisors, and gives them the knowledge and skills to manage health and safety within their teams.
IOSH training courses combine up-to-date theory and practice to enable around 100,000 people a year to earn qualifications. Earning an IOSH qualification will allow the holder to ensure that the health and safety practices in their workplace are current, effective and well managed.
What does IOSH training include?
The training syllabus varies depending on the course, but both include the following common key aspects:
Identifying hazards
The Working Safely course considers a range of hazards that could potentially cause harm including mechanical, physical, chemical, environmental, biological and organisational hazards. The Managing Safely course looks at hazards from a specific industry perspective including location, activity, substance and equipment.
Defining and assessing risks
Both courses guide learners through the risk assessment process and use a simple scoring system to use during assessments. Both also seek to underline that even simple, repetitive tasks can result in serious risks.
Improving health and safety performance
Looking at systems and processes, this topic investigates a wide range of workplace safety issues including inspections, permits, protective equipment, signage and emergency procedures to demonstrate how checking performance across these aspects can help to reduce risk.
What is IOSH Managing Safely?
Managing Safely is a three-day course that gives managers and supervisors the knowledge and skills they need to manage health and safety within their teams.
It covers responsibilities for health and safety, hazard identification, assessing and controlling risks, accident investigation and measuring performance.
Managing Safely gives managers the confidence to drive health and safety performance within their teams and to improve the health and safety culture of their organisation as a whole.
What is IOSH Working Safely?
IOSH Working Safely is a one-day course covering the essentials of health and safety in the workplace. It is aimed at all employees in all types of organisation. The course looks at people’s responsibilities for health and safety, workplace hazards and risks, and how to control them.