Get all the benefits of structured classroom learning but with the convenience of the digital world, studying where you like.

Students join remotely using a PC, laptop or tablet and download the relevant software in advance to enable access to the tutor run class. Throughout the course, students can see and interact with the tutor and with each other. See course dates.

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• Gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage health and safety within your team
• Be awarded a Managing Safely certificate from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the world’s largest health and safety membership organisation
• This certificate offers a distinct advantage to anyone holding or seeking a managerial or supervisory position.

If you have any questions about our IOSH training courses, please visit our FAQs page.

Test your risk assessment skills with our new virtual reality (VR) exercise. Learn through discovery by assessing the risk of harm from a number of work activities in a virtual workplace. 

Due to COVID-19, we are currently unable to offer our VR exercise in classrooms or send out Google Cardboard headsets to online learners. We apologise for this inconvenience.

The course is arranged into seven modules

1. Introducing managing safely
2. Understanding your responsibilities
3. Identifying hazards
4. Assessing risks
5. Controlling risks
6. Investigating accidents and incidents
7. Measuring performance.

Assessment depends on how you choose to study.

Classroom - There is an end-of-course assessment made up of 30 multi-format questions. There’s also a work-based risk assessment task to be completed within two weeks of the end of the course.

Online - You can start studying immediately. When the interactive exercises are completed you can start the assessment and risk assessment task. This must be completed within one year of registration.

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:

• Describe the key reasons to manage health and safety in the workplace
• Define the key terms relating to health and safety
• Identify how the law can have an impact on health and safety in the workplace 
• Describe how to assess, reduce and control risk in the workplace
• Identify workplace hazards and risks, assess their impact and how to manage them
• Identify how to evaluate and respond to an incident
• List the characteristics and benefits of an effective health and safety management system
• Describe the principles that underpin good health and safety performance.

We recognise that everyone is different, which is why we offer a choice of study routes.

You can attend a course at one of our training centres, complete the course online, live online or we can deliver the course in your workplace.