IOSH Training

There is no expiry date on IOSH Managing Safely® and IOSH Working Safely® certificates. As they are awareness-level courses, they do not ‘expire’; however, we do recommend as best practice that delegates update around the 3-5 year mark, and there is a one-day refresher course available for this.

Yes, for both Managing Safely® and Working Safety®—to be completed on the last day of the course.

For Managing Safety®, you will also be required to complete a workplace risk assessment project within 2 weeks of the date of the last day of the course.

The majority of the questions are multiple-choice with a small number of free format questions.

The Working Safely® Assessment consists of 2 parts: Part A is multiple choice, and Part B covers identifying hazards and controls.

Both Managing Safely® and Working Safely® are closed-book assessments, but there is no time limit—delegates can take the time they need to complete it on the day.

You are allowed 1 resit if you fail to achieve the required pass mark. This will be discussed with you at the time, and mutually acceptable arrangements will be made for the resit. There will be no additional charge for this.

To deliver IOSH courses, the trainer must:

• Be a Technical Member of IOSH.
• Be up to date with their continuing professional development (CPD).
• Have a level 3 adult training qualification on a regulated framework or have completed the IOSH Train the Trainer course.
• Have two years of substantial face-to-face training experience.

These are held and kept secure by the organisation’s training department for a period of 6 weeks following the issue of certificates, after which time they are destroyed.

Certificates are usually received approximately 6 weeks from the end of the course.

No

Your trainer will carry out the first marking of the assessment paper and project. This will be followed by a second marker to confirm accuracy and verify the final mark.

IOSH may, from time to time, ask to moderate some of the papers.

Should you be unhappy with the mark you have been awarded, you will have recourse to an appeals procedure. If you wish to appeal, please visit https://iosh.com/about/legal/policies/ao-policies.

This can depend on a number of factors, such as if moderation of papers is required, when payment is received, if you have a credit account with available funds, and when the certificates are requested. However, generally, if there is no moderation required and you have a credit account in place as you do, the certificates should be with you within 2-3 weeks of ordering them (the print run goes over to our printing house each Friday morning and includes all certificates requested from within the previous week; these are then printed and dispatched by the end of the following week). Please note if you order certificates on a Friday, these won’t be included in that day’s print run; they will be on the following Fridays.