IOSH Supervising Safely Syllabus
On successful completion of the IOSH Supervising Safely award, you will be able to:
- Understand how training and good supervision are fundamental to ensuring good health and safety
- Understand how to help managers and directors create a safe and healthy working environment
- Appreciate the importance of your organisation's safety policy
- Explain the importance of risk assessment and understand the part the supervisor plays
- Identify workplace processes and their associated risks and evaluate what could cause harm in the workplace
- Plan an inspection of the workplace and record details
- Demonstrate an understanding of workplace precautions
- Understand the need to take into account the health and safety aspects when asking someone to carry out a task or job and provide the appropriate control measures
- Assess existing health and safety conditions and procedures against set standards
- Understand the procedure for reporting accidents, incidents and near misses
- Understand the need to communicate guidelines for emergency procedures to all personnel
- Communicate with all levels of management and personnel including others sharing or working in the same premises who may be employed by the organisation, including contractors, subcontractors and agency personnel
- Co-ordinate contractors and understand how to identify levels of competency
- Appreciate how industry affects the environment and be able to list the ways in which individuals can minimise pollution and waste