IOSH Leading Safely®
IOSH Leading Safely course provides business leaders with the knowledge to protect their business and employees through proper health and safety practices. The course is delivered over four hours, and you will receive an IOSH certificate after successfully completing the course.
On this IOSH Leading Safely course, you will learn how adequate safety and health will help you to increase profits, improve productivity, enhance corporate reputation and strengthen your brand.
With this knowledge, you will have the necessary tools needed to map out the overall health and safety direction for your workplace. As one of our top IOSH training courses; this IOSH Leading Safely course will enable senior directors to fully appreciate their responsibilities.
This IOSH course covers the following topics (for the full list of topics covered in this course, see the dropdown below):
- Developing a personal action plan
- Business relevant case studies
- Outlining your safety and health responsibilities in the workplace
Benefits of this IOSH Leading Safely Course:
- You achieve a lifelong qualification
- It will make you a more effective business leader
- Helps to reduce accident rates in the workplace
- Helps to improve business performance through effective safety and health leadership
- Accredited by IOSH

IOSH Leading Safely course content
The IOSH Leading Safely course is highly interactive and contains a range of different elements. The delegate will learn a mixture of group discussions, case studies, scenarios and classroom theory work.
The course will cover the following subjects:
Complete a pre-course questionnaire
This allows the tutor to review the delegates attending and use relevant content to match their needs and industry.
Develop a personalised report
Based on the response of the delegates from the questionnaire, including actions and recommendations.
Businesses relevant case studies
This will look at acknowledging the value of integrating strategic safety into business processes. You will also understand your responsibility of leading health and safety at work and the consequences of poor health and safety in the workplace.
Outlining the direction of health and safety in your organisation, and the importance of properly acquiring a safety and health management system.
The final assessment
Requires you to produce an action plan as a part of your organisation’s review process and complete a short written paper exam.
How long is the IOSH Leading Safely course?
The course is delivered over 4 hours. The course’s short duration is great for busy people who need a course that is easy to manage within a busy schedule.
Why should I attend this course?
Delegates who attend this course will leave with a clearer understanding of the importance of health and safety. The knowledge gained will help prevent health and safety incidences and improve your businesses’ productivity and finances.
By learning how to protect your employees, you are reducing absences due to injury and sickness. By reducing employee absence, business continuity and productivity will not be affected by covering absent roles, and you won’t need to spend vital time and money looking to replace employees. A reduction in health and safety incidents also looks great for your business externally.
To ensure that you get exactly what you need from the 4 hours of training, the tutor specifically tailors the content to those attending. By training with other delegates, you will also be able to compare your processes to other companies.
This will give you an idea of what you need to improve on or what you are doing well. You can also learn from how other companies conduct their health and safety practices and transfer them into your business.
Entry requirements
There are no formal entry requirements for the IOSH Leading Safely course. Although the content is designed for anyone in a leadership or senior management role, we advise that you work in that or a similar role to get the best out of the course.
When you enrol on the course, we require you to complete a pre-course questionnaire before starting the course. The tutor will use this to tailor their content to your health and safety needs and behaviours.
Is this course accredited?
This course is accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). IOSH is a chartered body for health and safety, and the largest membership body for professionals in this field.
An IOSH qualification is globally renowned and therefore easily recognisable to clients, customers and employers.
Upon completing the IOSH Leading Safely course, you will receive an IOSH accredited certificate within 6-8 weeks of completion.
IOSH Leading Safely is a lifelong qualification, so you will not need to renew your certificate. However, you can reattend if you wish to refresh your knowledge.
Where can I complete this course?
This course can be delivered via Online / Remote Learning or in the classroom (In-house).
Remote Learning
Remote learning eliminates the need for delegates to travel to attend the course in a classroom. It is delivered online in a virtual classroom through video conferencing software. To access the course, all that delegates need to do is log in using a camera and microphone device.
The course is delivered by an approved tutor, and delegates will still be able to interact with the tutor and other attendees through their microphone or the chatbox. All course materials are accessible in PDF format, and the exam is completed electronically.
In-house Courses
IOSH Leading Safely can be arranged as an in-house course specifically to your company. The course can be delivered either in a 3B Training classroom, on a site of your choosing, or online via Remote Learning.
This course is suited to be delivered in-house as it is designed in collaboration with business leaders. The content of the course is tailored towards who is attending, which adds real value to the customer.
The trainer will be able to use company-specific case studies which will encourage discussion between delegates. In-house courses are priced individually on a case-by-case basis. Our quote will vary depending on location, delegate numbers and delivery format. For a quote, complete the form on this page, and one of the team will be in touch.
FAQs
Is this course just for Directors?
This course can be for any delegate in a senior management position.
Can I book this IOSH Leading Safely course for my work staff?
Yes, we can arrange this course to be delivered in-house in your company. For more information, complete the form on this page, and one of our friendly team will be in touch.