If you are arranging health and safety training for your workforce, you need to know how much time employees will be away from their normal duties. IOSH Working Safely is designed to give people a useful foundation without requiring several days off the job.

How long does IOSH Working Safely take?

IOSH Working Safely is a one-day course. It is intended for employees in any sector and does not require previous health and safety experience. The exact timetable and delivery arrangements should be confirmed when booking.

What topics are covered?

• IOSH identifies four broad learning areas: introducing working safely, defining hazard and risk, identifying common hazards, and improving safety performance.
• Recognising hazards before they cause harm.
• Understanding risk in straightforward language.
• Thinking about safer working methods.
• Noticing how unsafe acts or conditions affect other people.
• Understanding why reporting hazards and near misses matters.

Will staff need to sit an assessment?

There is an assessment as part of the course. Successful delegates receive an IOSH Working Safely certificate, with the course and assessment ordinarily completed within the one-day programme.

Can the examples be relevant to our business?

This is especially important for manufacturing and warehouse teams. People are more likely to remember a discussion about familiar equipment, pedestrian routes or manual handling than an example with no connection to their work.

Does it replace job-specific training?

No. The course gives broad awareness, not authorisation to operate equipment or carry out specialist work. Your employees still need suitable site-specific instructions, supervision and training for their tasks.

What happens after the course?

Managers should help turn learning into action. Ask employees what hazards they noticed, whether any procedures are confusing and what practical improvements could be made. A short follow-up discussion often helps useful ideas become day-to-day habits.

Arrange Working Safely training for your team

See Jewel Safety’s IOSH Working Safely course and discuss suitable delivery for your employees in Hull and East Yorkshire.