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IOSH Leading Safely

Lead with confidence. Protect your people. Drive business success.

This is the course for senior leaders who want more than compliance. IOSH Leading Safely® gives you the knowledge and strategies to turn health and safety into a powerful business advantage.

  • Boost productivity and performance.
  • Protect your reputation and brand.
  • Build a thriving, resilient workforce.
  • Achieve fast pay-back and long-term gain.

You’ll learn how to align safety with your business goals, create a culture people believe in, and make smarter decisions that deliver measurable results.

The stand-out feature of the session is the ability for delegates to benchmark their current and future safety
and health vision and priorities in line with global models of safety, and to recognise good practice gathered from leading organisations from around the world.

At Astutis, we keep it simple. Your course fee covers everything—training, assessment, and certification. No hidden extras. Just real value, lasting impact, and the confidence to lead from the front.

Duration

5 hours

Entry Requirements

We believe in making learning accessible to everyone. This course is designed for individuals occupying a management position, however, there are no specific entry requirements.

IOSH Leading Safely Explained

Designed with business leaders, Leading Safely® delivers practical, high-impact learning that adds measurable value to your organisation. In just five hours, this flexible session can be tailored to your sector, organisation, or region—making it relevant for leaders in every industry, worldwide.

What makes this course stand out?
You’ll have the unique opportunity to benchmark your current and future safety vision against global best practice. You’ll also learn from proven strategies used by leading organisations around the world.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand and apply international good practice

  • Benchmark your performance against industry leaders

  • Shape your safety and health vision—and create a clear roadmap to achieve it

The business rewards:

  • Fewer accidents, lower absence, and reduced sick leave

  • Increased productivity and profits

  • Stronger reputation with clients, partners, and suppliers

Lead from the top. Set the standard. Drive business success.

Delivered by Experts for Experts.
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Units

  • Module 1

    Leadership Characteristics

  • Module 2

    The Wider Picture

  • Module 3

    Understanding Current Performance

  • Module 4

    Building Capability

  • Module 5

    Action Planning

Assessments

  • Learners use the diagnostic tool, accessed via a mobile app, to identify their current safety and health position
    against a set of critical questions. The tool recommends the actions they should take. At the end of the course they make a commitment to a personal action plan to improve their own and their organisations’ safety and health management.
    Delegates receive: 
    • an app to access their diagnostic tool / action planner
    • access to a safety leadership community, with news from IOSH, and up-to-date discussions on themes in safety leadership, from trainers and delegates.

Course Length

  • Tailored to fit around the schedule of learners, the course should take approximately five hours to complete. 
No entry requirements are needed to study the IOSH Leading Safely course. However occupying a leadership role in your business would greatly help maximise the impact of the course. 
Module 1
Leadership Characteristics Covers the intangibles to lead effectively.
Module 2
The Wider Picture How to integrate leadership skills to establish a successful long term productive atmosphere in your business.
Module 3
Understanding Current Performance By understanding and critically evaluating current performance, you will uncover areas of potential improvement.
Module 4
Building Capability Covers the practices required to overcome future obstacles and risks in the workplace, for you and your workforce.
Module 5
Action Planning Enables learners to understand the actions required to be a pro-active leader in their business.

IOSH Leading Safely Fact Sheet

Learners use the diagnostic tool, accessed via a mobile app, to identify their current safety and health position
against a set of critical questions. The tool recommends the actions they should take. At the end of the course they make a commitment to a personal action plan to improve their own and their organisations’ safety and health management.
Delegates receive: 
• an app to access their diagnostic tool / action planner
• access to a safety leadership community, with news from IOSH, and up-to-date discussions on themes in safety leadership, from trainers and delegates.


 
There are no specific entry requirements to study the IOSH Leading Safely course. However, learners would gain the most from the course if they currently occupied a leadership role in their organisation.
The IOSH Leading Safely course differentiates from the IOSH Managing Safely course by focussing on the fundamental theory of successful leadership, rather than the practical understanding of Health and Safety management. The IOSH Leading Safely course gifts learners the most advanced characteristics leaders require to spearhead productive and safe workforces.
Workplace Training

IOSH Leading Safely for Your Workforce

Develop your people for a better organisation.

By applying the knowledge and skills gained from the IOSH Leading Safely course, you will be able to contribute to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.

Our training has been tried and tested by 100,000 health and safety professionals. We offer a range of learning options, including virtual classroom, online and on-site classroom courses delivered at premises of your choice on a day of your choice.

Benefits Of Staff Training At Your Organisation

Cost and time saving benefits for larger number of staff.
Your own dedicated account manager to organise all aspects of your training.
Relevant training for your staff can be tailored to company requests.
Choice and convenience of training delivery options to suit your staff.

Whats The Best Way For My Staff To Learn?

Dependent on staff availability, location, budget and your company needs, choose from the options:

Online - Our interactive and multimedia rich courses for staff to fit in around their commitments

Classroom - Expert tutor-led delivery, hosted in a professional training environment across 6-sites within the UK. Alternatively Classroom training can be delivered On-Site at your premises for multiple learners.

Virtual - The Virtual Learning Academy is the most modern approach to delivering live-online training without the need to travel

Workplace Training
CONSULTATION SERVICE

Helping You To Train Your Staff

Independent and practical consultancy support provided by our Chartered Health and Safety, and Environmental practitioners.

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  • "Colleagues from Astutis have always been very helpful and willing to help, which makes the difference. Documents, information and conversations are always factual and timely, and no request has not been actioned. Astutis' trainers have always been professional and kind to our delegates. They have provided feedback above and beyond to help delegates succeed. Using their learning programme first hand, the information is clear, the practice tests and supplimentary information which are thorough and in depth enough for self learning. We have been working with Astutis for over a decade and the quality of professionalism has always been maintained and it is a pleasure to continue the partnership."

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