This course provides participants with the fundamental concepts, tools and techniques for effective safety management.

Course description
Modern Safety Management is the most widely attended course of its kind in the world. Established in 1985, MSM first edition has been taught to more than half a million participants and is DNV’s best selling course worldwide. MSM is based on proven principles of safety management and provides participants with the fundamental concepts, techniques and applications for a practical, proactive approach to managing safety and controlling losses.

This course is recommended for Safety and Loss Control professionals, supervisors and other operating managers who have safety responsibilities. MSM is a foundation course to support users of ISRS 6th Edition. MSM is available in multiple languages including Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Polish and Spanish.

Learning objective
On completion of MSM the participant will:

• Understand the activities that have proven effective in managing workplace safety
• Be able to apply fundamental concepts and tools to implement an safety management system
• Be a more effective health and safety management practitioner.

Prerequisite
No previous experience required.

Course programme
MSM is available in 3, 4 or 4.5 day versions. The 4.5 day agenda is shown below:

Day 1

• Welcome and introductions
• Questions for daily review/homework
• Managing risk through effective safety management systems
• The causes, effects and control of loss

Day 2

• Measuring and monitoring safety/ISRS an introduction
• Planned inspection systems
• Controlling property damage
• Rule development implementation and maintenance

Day 3

• Emergency planning and preparedness
• Changing behaviour through safety promotions
• Group communications
• Identifying, analysing and documenting critical tasks
• Observing critical tasks

Day 4

• Managing the occupational health control system
• Personal communications
• Accident/incident investigations
• Developing and managing teams

Day 5

• Examination
• Action plan.