The Institute of Health and Safety (IHS) is now offering the IOSH Managing Safely course. IOSH is Europe's leading body for health and safety professionals, with nearly 33,000 members worldwide, including 13,000 Chartered Health and Safety Practitioners.

The IOSH Managing Safely course is designed to give managers and supervisors working in any sector all they need to know to help them handle health and safety in the workplace. The flexible new high impact programme covers all the main health and safety issues and includes a session tackling the environment.

The IHS is also holding 'Writing a health and safety policy' on October 28. Every organisation should have a clear policy for the management of health and safety, so that everybody within an organisation is aware of its aims and objectives in this regard. A good health and safety policy gives direction to everyone within the company and sets a benchmark standard of what is acceptable and what is not.

This course examines the purpose of a health and safety policy and explores ways in which these policies can be developed into meaningful and useful documents.

A course on 'Workers' health and safety representative' will also be held shortly. Legislation requires that each company should have a competent health and safety representative who is selected by the employees. The duties of this representative include acting as an intermediary between the workforce and management on health and safety issues, and to form part of the health and safety committee.

This course is designed to help health and safety representatives understand their role and to equip them with the basic knowledge and skills necessary for them to carry out their functions effectively.

For more information, call 2131 1966 or e-mail info@ihs.com.mt.