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IOSH Managing Safely with attitude

Overview

Blending the knowledge of what a manager should be doing and how, with a behavioural approach to ensure the knowledge and skills do not get put on the shelf for reference, but become part of the way delegates manage health and safety in the workplace.

Who is it for

Behavioural health and safety is dependant on Organisational Factors, Job Factors and Individual Factors. Front line managers have the largest potential influence on all these factors through the standards they set, examples they demonstrate, and questions they ask, both of their employees and their managers.

Content

The IOSH element of the course is split into 8 modules:

  • Introducing Managing Safely
  • Assessing Risk
  • Controlling Risk
  • Understanding Your Responsibilities
  • Identifying Hazards
  • Investigating Accidents and Incidents
  • Measuring Performance
  • Protecting Our Environment

As well as weaving behavioural aspects into the delivery IOSH elements of the course, 4 discreet modules have been added to the course to sit betwixt the existing IOSH modules.

Behavioural modules

1a. Introducing Behavioural Safety - Introduction to Behavioural Safety, Organisation, Job & Individual Factors

  • What is "Safety Culture"?
  • What influences the Health and safety Culture?

2a. Gambling with Life - Risk Chance and Probability, true risk perception

  • Truths about the assessment of risk
  • Mental risk assessment when crossing the road
  • Dicing with Death - re-evaluating risk, if we keep taking chances, the risk will always win in the end!

3a. Controlling Behaviour - Effect of Behaviour on safety controls

  • Effect of Human behaviour on the Risk Control Hierarchy
  • How and why risk controls fail
  • Making controls less susceptible to human behaviour

4a. Leadership - Acts and omissions say it all!

  • Management Decide the Safety Culture!?
  • Leading the Safety Culture
  • Communicating your attitude to others

5a. Hazards caused by Behavioural issues

  • Causes of behavioural issues
  • Ergonomics

6a. Behaviour as a root cause

  • Human Failure - errors and violations
  • Identifying the behavioural elements of root causes
  • Preventing further accidents/incidents

7a. Measuring Safety Culture

  • Signs and indicators of poor behavioural safety in the workplace
  • Measuring Safety Culture
  • Limitations of reactive measurements

8a. Can one person stop climate change?

  • Can one person effect Safety Culture Change?
  • Examples of successful culture change

9. Summary

  • When do we behave safely
  • Are "barriers to H&S" really barriers or simply excuses to hide behind?
  • What are you going to do differently
  • Postcards from the future

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