Workplace Training : Directors, managers and supervisors

Director Involvement in Health and Safety
In the decade it has taken to secure the introduction of the new offence of Corporate Manslaughter (CM Regulations), there has been a growing focus on the health and safety responsibilities of directors and senior managers in all organisations.

Risk Assessment
Under health and safety legislation the main requirement for employers is to conduct suitable and sufficient risk assessments. Indeed, risk assessments form the lynchpin of health and safety management. This course puts the emphasis on practical exercises, meaning that delegates will leave with the ability to perform risk assessments in their own organisations.

Best Practice in Risk Assessment
Health and safety management can succeed or fail depending on the effectiveness of an organisation’s risk assessments. But once you have mastered the basic principles, how do you ensure that your risk assessments are suitable and help you make the right decisions about risk management?

IOSH Managing Safely
This flagship course from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is aimed at all managers and supervisors, in all businesses. The knowledge gained from the course facilitates effective and safe management, which is in line with best practice.

IOSH Managing Safely re-certification
Ever-changing legislation increases the need for renewing the IOSH Managing Safely certification every two years.

IOSH Workplacement Assessors
The course is intended for all those in the education sector, learning and skills council, education business partnerships and other organisations who arrange, monitor or administer work experience placements.

Health and Safety Essentials for Supervisors
All those who have supervisory or line management responsibilities for others will benefit from this three day course that offers an excellent broad-based foundation in health and safety principles.

Safety Representatives (Employee Consultation)
By appointing safety/employee representatives and setting up a safety committee, employers can meet their legal duty to consult with employees on matters relating to health and safety at work.

TRAIN YOUR TEAM TO AUDIT

The value of auditing the quality and implementation of your company’s health and safety management system cannot be understated. Some companies prefer to bring in an experienced external consultant, valuing the fact that the person is truly independent of the area and activities being audited. Many, however, prefer an auditor to be trained from within their own staff, appreciating that the person is fully aware of the company culture and ongoing issues.

RoSPA’s renowned Quality Safety Audit (QSA) portfolio includes a training course and software package for organisations wishing to have their own in-house ‘competent auditor’ who works to RoSPA’s high standards. The QSA Approved Auditor training course is detailed below. For organisations uncertain of the benefits of training staff to audit health and safety management systems, RoSPA has this year introduced a new course designed to provide an introduction to carrying out an audit.

QSA Approved Auditor course
The course covers the skills and practices of effective safety auditing, including knowledge and understanding of HSG65, experience of auditing safety management systems and competence in the implementation of the QSA system.

Auditing and Reviewing Health and Safety Management Systems
This new RoSPA course has been designed to provide delegates with an introduction on how to undertake health and safety audits and provide them with the required skills. Ideal for those wishing to trial the benefits of having audit-trained staff in house.

An Introduction to Behavioural Safety
Human reliability is a significant factor behind more than 85% of accidents, and arguably the greatest challenge to those responsible for ensuring safe places of work. By establishing the principal causes of human error and health and safety violations, this innovative course plays a vital role in realising the vision of an accident and injury free culture. Ideal for Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Behavioural Safety – Further Steps
Designed as a meeting of minds for safety professionals this course will equip delegates with practical guidance on introducing a sustainable behavioural safety programme, developing a positive safety culture and troubleshooting existing programmes. It builds on key behavioural topics with a view to offering practical implementation advice via analysis of case studies. Ideal for Continuing Professional Development (CPD).