Managing Safely Training Course

Ensuring all employees' health and safety should a top priority for every company and managers share this responsibility.

Depending on their role, managers may also be asked to conduct risk assessments and implement controls.

Our Managing Safely Course helps managers to better understand health and safety risks, systems and procedures.

For general staff training see our Working Safely course.

About this Course

Available as part of our Compliance Essentials Course Library.

Learning Objectives

This course will prepare your managers to:

Appreciate the importance of managing safely
Understand their responsibilities as a manager
Conduct risk assessments
Take measures to control risk
Spot hazards
Identify and report accidents and incidents

Course Outline

Introduction

What is Managing Safely?

Consequences of not Managing Safely

Why Manage Safely?

- Cost of not managing safely

Your Legal Responsibility

- Demonstrating leadership
- Understanding your responsibilities

What is Risk?

- Hazards
- Hazardous events
- Probability of hazardous events
- Consequences of hazardous events
- Level of risk

What is a Risk Assessment?

- The benefits

How to Conduct a Risk Assessment

- Summary: How to assess risk

How to Measure Risk

- Four levels of likelihood and consequence
- Levels of risk
- Exercise: Faulty plug risk
- Residual risk
- Section summary: How to measure risk

Reducing Risk with Control Measures

- Eliminate the hazard
- Substitute with less hazardous alternative
- Use barriers around the hazard
- Use safe systems of work
- Issue personal protective equipment
- Provide welfare facility

Case Scenario: Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

- RSI consequences

How Do you Choose which Control Measure to Implement?

- Choosing the right control measure
- Exercise: Which is the most effective measure?
- Involving staff
- Summary: How to control risk

Hazards in the Office

- Fire
- Electricity
- Workstations
- Slips and trips
- Section summary: Identifying hazards

Adverse Events: Accidents, Incidents & Dangerous Occurrences

- Need for investigation
- What causes lead to adverse events?
- Fixing the root causes is essential
- Exercise: Why do adverse events happen?

Investigating & Reporting

- Step 1: Initial response
- Step 2: Preserve the scene
- Step 3: Report the accident
- Step 4: Assemble the investigation team
- Step 5: Investigate using a structured approach
- Step 6: Handle external relationships
- Summary: Identifying and reporting accidents and incidents

Affirmation

Assessment

Course Specifications

Duration

Approximately 45 minutes.

Audience

Suitable for all staff - examples and interactivities designed for staff at all levels.

Prerequisites

No previous knowledge or experience required.

Design

SHARD-compliant, responsive display on all devices, accessibility on screen readers, visual design controlled via a client style sheet.

Assessment

10-question assessment.

Test-Out

Ability to offer optional test-out, whereby users can choose to skip the course content and complete the learning assignment simply by passing the assessment Deployment AICC and SCORM 1.2-compliant, suitable for both hosted and deployed SCORM or AICC.

Deployment

AICC and SCORM 1.2-compliant, suitable for both hosted and deployed SCORM or AICC.

Compatibility

All Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android (Flash-free for mobile compatibility).

Tailoring

Fully customisable on Skillcast Portal CMS.

Translation

Pre-translated versions not available, but all text content can be exported for translation into all languages.

Localisation

Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.