IOSH Leading Safely®️

IOSH Leading Safely®️ equips business leaders and senior managers with the strategic health and safety knowledge necessary to safeguard their employees and business.

What is IOSH Leading Safely®️?

The accredited IOSH Leading Safely®️ course provides the health and safety knowledge business leaders and senior managers need. It delivers a unique, business-first approach to ensure candidates understand how to apply the course teachings to their business for maximum benefit. 

The IOSH Leading Safely®️ training course was developed by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). This is a globally chartered body that creates training courses to promote high standards of health and safety in the workplace, with its accredited certificates recognised worldwide. 

Throughout the 5-hour course candidates will receive practical knowledge and solutions so that health and safety practices in their business can meet the highest international standards. IOSH Leading Safely®️ also helps you evaluate your businesses’ current health and safety performance, while providing the skills to evaluate the businesses' ongoing performance and practices.

Learning options

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What benefits does it offer you as an employer?

  • Increase productivity through reduced absence from accident or injuries 

  • Improve the professional reputation of the business via a commitment to health and safety 

  • Reduce the cost of legal incidents due to fewer workplace accidents and injuries 

What benefits does it offer you as a learner? 

  • Improve your leadership through increased health and safety awareness 

  • Develop an understanding of leading health and safety practice that you can emulate in your workplace 

  • Identify how to improve your current health and safety practices  

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Rated 4.9/5 stars on Trustpilot, Phoenix provides an unbeatable service which helps thousands of people acquire their IOSH Leading Safely®️ Certificate each year.  

Teaching and Support    

In every course Phoenix provides our leading team of expert mentors and tutors will do their upmost to support you in your studies, supplying advice and high-quality resources to enrich your learning.  

Accredited Partner   

Phoenix Health and Safety is an IOSH Approved Partner. This means our IOSH course materials, tutors, and learning materials 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 Leading Safely®️ training course is ideal for senior managers, business leaders and directors. It focuses on the value of strategic health and safety policy together with understanding corporate responsibilities. 

When studied through in-house learning, IOSH Leading Safely® is 5 hours long.

IOSH Leading Safely®️ includes 4 units of study: 

  • Health and Safety Leadership- Your role and safety and health responsibilities. 

  • Getting Health and Safety Right- Guidance on the effective planning and implementation of policies and workplace practice. 

  • Incident Management and Recovery- Your responsibilities and the potential penalties for non-compliance with health and safety laws. 

  • Personal Commitment- Your commitment to managing targeted plans for improving your organisation’s health and safety performance. 

After completing this course, candidates will possess the knowledge and skills to:

  • Recognise the importance of strategic health and safety management in the workplace

  • Learn how to integrate health and safety into business management systems

  • Gain awareness of workplace health and safety in line with UK legislation

  • Increase business productivity through effective health and safety management

Candidates, via a mobile app, will utilise a diagnostic tool to identify, review and assess their current health and safety performance. The tool recommends specific actions that need to be undertaken to make measurable levels of improvement to health and safety. 

At the end of the course, candidates make a commitment to a personal action plan that will improve their organisation's safety and health management. 

After completing your IOSH Leading Safely®️ course there are many advanced courses we offer that can further your professional development and career, via the specialised study of health and safety. These include accredited NEBOSH courses such as the NEBOSH General Certificate, as well as our range of IEMA courses

What is the pass rate for IOSH Leading Safely?

There is no exact pass marks for this course. Instead, candidates, via a mobile app, will utilise a diagnostic tool to identify, review and assess their current health and safety performance. At the end of the course, candidates make a commitment to a personal action plan that will improve their organisation's safety and health management.

How long is the IOSH Leading Safely course?

When studied through in-house learning, the IOSH Leading Safely® is around 5 hours long.

What level is the IOSH Leading Safely course?

The Leading safely course is short course geared towards executive-level team members to improve their safety performance within their organisations.

Are there any entry requirements for an IOSH course?

There are no entry requirements for IOSH Working Safely, Managing Safely or Leading Safely.

When will I receive my IOSH Certificate?

Your IOSH certificate is sent via post and usually arrives within 2-3 weeks of completing your IOSH course.