I've just been accredited to deliver the new IOSH Managing Safely course
. Itse desingned for supervisors and senior members of staff who have a level of responisbility for safety within the organisation.
Its there to make a lighter read in terms of traditional health and safety courses. IOSH Managing Safely is a short 4-5 day affair always light humoured and relatively fun, or as fun as a safety course could be.
IOSH Managing Safely has been going for a few years now and I recently attended a conference fo those wishing to start delivering the course. What struck me firstly was the number of people in attendance, I'm not sure if this was more to do with the interest in IOSH courses or the fact that people had been made reducndant and were looking for something to do to fill their time with. A lot of one man bands were present. They invited a few existing trainers to give their viewpoint, this wasn't too useful as obviously they were censored in terms of what they could say. They actually didnt talk too much about the financial aspects of the course i.e. does it make money and the general price you need to pitch the courses at. It really just went on to re-iterate how good IOSH were and what great support they offered against other training bodies.
I think the important thing to remember is that it is useful but you need to bring in the candidates and I guess IOSH cant tell you how to do that.