After undertaking the IOSH Managing safely for healthcare professionals course

Candidates should be able to:

  • Understand the principles of health & safety management practices
  • Understand the methods required to generate positive health & safety attitudes by managers & staff & to appreciate the immediate & underlying causes of accident/incident investigation. 
  • Describe the principles of corporate & local risk management & apply the techniques & practices of risk prevention/control to the working environment. 
  • Understand the legal system & how it has evolved into current legislation along with the major responsibilities for health & safety that fall on both the Trust & employees. 
  • To improve communication in the management of health & safety 
  • Understand the relationship & responsibilities of client & contractors. 
  • Understand the risks associated with both core & other hazards in the healthcare environment & develop knowledge in their prevention & control.

IOSH Training is available for a number of other areas which give you a rang of other certified skills. Protect Life are a health, safety and protective goods superstore. They offer all the above and much.

Good vendors of this type of training are hard to find. Perhaps the best approach when selecting a supplier is to approach the HSP (Health Safety and Protective) Superstores, they can usually sasitisfy all your health safety and protective training needs. They pridictably have 4 primary training services which we can be delivered locally, nationally or internationally:

1. Defining your needs - Helping clients to evaluate or review theire training requirements and deliver a plan for training which will be flexible enough to work in the designated organisation;

2. Planning - Help customers to present and implement a clear and transparent plan address training all their health safety and protective needs;

3. Deliver one-off or periodic training for individuals/groups. With many of there courses you have the option of Training being delivered face to face, via video, via interactive computer based training or a combination of these methods;

4. Your training department – they can manage all your training issues for you.

They say “training does not have to be costly or restricted to any specific time” As some of their courses can be taken any time of the day and any day of the week.