IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing

Benefits for Employers

• Improve the wellbeing and health culture in your workplace, as staff have the tools to support one another at work.

• Increase staff productivity, with less time taken off due to workplace illness and injury. 

• Demonstrate your commitment to health and wellbeing by providing staff with this globally recognised certificate.

Benefits for Learners

• Develop an awareness of health and wellbeing related risks at work and how to address them

• Gain the skills to confidently conduct heath risk assessments

• Further your career with an accredited IOSH certificate

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Accredited Partner  

Phoenix Health and Safety is an IOSH Approved Partner. This means our IOSH course materials, tutors, and learning environments are all quality-assured and stamped with excellence.  

The Phoenix Pass Pledge  

Every Phoenix IOSH course entitles you to continue studying free of charge if you fail to meet the required standard in examinations, though with pass rates above industry standard this is rarely required. 

The IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing is suitable for any managers and supervisors directly responsible for the occupational health and wellbeing of other employees.

It is appropriate for staff in these positions across all sectors, industries, and markets. You don't need any existing qualifications to study the course, or any existing health and safety knowledge.

The IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing course lasts one day and can be delivered in-house via face-to-face or virtual delivery

IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing includes 4 units of study: 

Section One: A healthy company

• What health management is and why it makes good business sense to manage occupational health and wellbeing in the workplace

• The true cost and benefits of managing health:

  • work-related ill health

  • non-work-related ill health

  • sickness absence

  • presenteeism

  • performance

• Models of health at work Occupational safety and health legal requirements relating to:

  • health management

  • welfare

  • employment

• What a health needs assessment is and how it can help determine the level and types of health needs to be considered

• The five steps in a health needs assessment

• What should be considered in a health needs assessment:

  • data sources and confidentiality

  • legal requirements

  • business strategy

  • organisational health profile

  • health support

• How the vision and direction of an organisation influence health and wellbeing in the workplace through:

  • values and strategy

  • putting health on the agenda

  • a multi-disciplinary team approach

• The role of the manager- People or services that can provide help with managing occupational

  health and wellbeing such as:

  • safety and health business partners

  • the human resources department

  • occupational health nurses and doctors

  • occupational hygienists

Section two: Health risk management

• The five health hazard categories:

  • physical

  • ergonomic

  • psychosocial

  • chemical

  • biological

• Causes of health hazards in each category and their impact

• Assessing the risk from health hazards

  • steps to health risk assessment

  • controlling health risks

  • health risks that need to be prioritised

  • pre-requisites for managing health hazards

  • health action plan

• Ways to monitor health risks in a risk monitoring programme:

  • health monitoring

  • workplace monitoring

  • health surveillance

  • regular reviews

Section three: Fitness for work

• Types of non-work-related physical and mental health conditions and how they impact fitness for work

• Types of health assessment to recognised standards and good practice:

  • pre-placement health assessment

  • routine health assessment for specific worker groups

• Drugs and alcohol:

  • having a policy in place

  • the components of a policy

  • how to manage results

  • supporting workers

• Managing the fluctuation of people’s health status:

  • effective ill-health and absence management

  • six elements in a return to work process

  • reasonable adjustments

Rehabilitation

• The benefits of getting people back to work

• Support services and case management

Section four: Wellbeing

• what is meant by ‘wellbeing’?

• wellbeing strategy

• how a wellbeing programme can add value to an organisation

• promoting and monitoring a wellbeing programme

• Easy health choices workers can make and how those choices can lead to a healthy lifestyle

• Promoting positive mental health

  • recognising when a worker may have issues

  • how to approach a worker to offer support

  • finding a way forward

• Influences on overall wellbeing

  • the workplace culture

  • the attitudes and behaviours of business leaders

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

• State what health management is and explain why it makes good business sense to have a good health profile

• Summarise occupational safety and health and employment requirements and describe what to consider in a health needs assessment

• Describe how the vision and direction of an organisation influence health and wellbeing in the workplace

• Relate health hazards to different categories and explain their causes and impact

• Carry out a health risk assessment identifying the hazards, risks and controls and recognise any specific health risks that need to be prioritised

• Explain ways to monitor health risks in a risk management process and state who can provide help with managing occupational health and wellbeing issues

• List types of common non-work related physical and mental health conditions and describe how they impact fitness for work

• Describe the requirements and types of health assessments for specific worker groups

• Describe the components of a drug and alcohol policy and testing process and explain how to manage results

• Explain ways to conduct absence management and recognise the benefits of getting people back to work

• Explain the aims and business benefits of a workplace wellbeing programme and how to promote and monitor it

• Describe easy health choices and how they can enable a healthy lifestyle

• Recognise mental health issues and explain how to approach the employee to find a way forward

• Describe how the workplace culture and leaders’ attitudes and behaviours influence overall wellbeing.

IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing is is assessed in 2 parts:  

• A 20 question exam paper which candidates have 30 minutes to complete.

• Candidates must also complete a workplace health risk assessment, using the IOSH standard form. This should be completed within two weeks of completing the course.

After completing the IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing course, many students progress to study IOSH Managing Safely to build on their safety knowledge. Others also move on to the NEBOSH General Certificate, which is the industry standard qualification for health and safety practitioners.

Do I need to pay for IOSH Membership?

Candidates do not need to buy IOSH membership to complete one of our IOSH courses.

Are there any entry requirements for an IOSH Course?

There are no entry requirements for the IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing course.