What is IOSH training? | GH Safety
Raj Media • January 22, 2020
IOSH stands for Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, which is the world’s largest health and safety membership body. The IOSH have a variety of courses designed to teach about managing and working safely, covering various topic related to health and safety in the workplace. Each course results in an IOSH credited certificate and qualification.
Who is the training for?
There are different types of IOSH courses:
The IOSH Managing Safely course introduces managing health and safety in the workplace to managers and supervisors. This course runs over three days and teaches the fundamentals of managing safely, identifying hazards, understanding your responsibilities and more. As a result of taking the course, you are rewarded with the nationally recognised and respected IOSH credited certificate and qualification which lasts for 3 to 5 years.
The IOSH Managing Safely Refresher course is a one-day course that acts as a refresher of the IOSH Managing Safely course. It is advised that this course is only taken by managers and supervisors who have already taken the IOSH Managing Safely course within the last 3 years. After taking the course, managers and supervisors will have their Managing Safely qualification extended for another 3 years.
Different from the other courses, the IOSH Working Safely course is for anyone, in any sector, wanting to learn about the essentials of working safely. The course covers the basics of working safely, as well as topics such as defining hazards and risks and protecting the environment. On completion of the course, participants are given an IOSH accredited certificate which is valid for 3 years.
At GH Safety we run all three IOSH training courses. All courses take place at Shrivenham Hundred Business Park in Swindon, but we also offer an in-house IOSH Managing Safely course - you can find the latest course dates below.
Course dates
IOSH Managing Safely Refresher - 1-day course running on the 5th of February.
IOSH Managing Safely - 3-day course running on the 12th, 13th and 14th of February.
IOSH Working Safely - 1-day course running on the 24th of April.
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