Human Focus is an approved provider offering a full range of online IOSH courses for organisations of every size. Our training covers every level, from frontline workers to executives, helping your teams meet the highest standards of occupational health and safety. Complete your training online, at your own pace, and earn a globally recognised IOSH certification.
List of IOSH Courses
Learn from an Approved IOSH Course Provider
An IOSH certificate is one of the most respected qualifications in occupational health and safety. IOSH accreditation signals to employers that a worker has been trained to a standard set by the world’s largest professional safety body, making it a valuable credential across industries and borders.
Human Focus has been delivering health and safety training for over 30 years. As an approved provider of IOSH courses, we bring that experience to every online training we offer, ensuring your teams get training via IOSH courses that is thorough, up to date, and built around real workplace needs.
Our IOSH-accredited courses cover every level of your organisation, giving workers, managers, and directors the knowledge they need to meet their responsibilities. Whether you are new to health and safety or looking to refresh existing knowledge, our IOSH health and safety training courses are designed to fit around your workforce without disrupting day-to-day operations.
IOSH Managing Safely
Managing Safely is IOSH’s flagship training programme, built for anyone with management responsibilities. Across seven modules, it takes managers through risk assessment, hazard identification, accident investigation, legal duties, and how to measure and continuously improve safety performance within their teams.
- Who Needs This: Managers, supervisors, team leaders, HR professionals, and small business owners.
- Why It Is Important: Over a million workers are injured or face work-related illnesses in the UK every year. Managers play a direct role in preventing harm, and this online IOSH course ensures they have the knowledge to fulfil that responsibility.
- Benefits: Covers the full scope of health and safety management, from legal obligations to practical risk controls. An internationally recognised IOSH certificate is issued within 28 days of completing the theory test and practical risk assessment.
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IOSH Working Safely
Frontline workers need to understand the basics of occupational health and safety before anything else can follow. This IOSH training course covers the fundamentals in four clear modules, from identifying hazards and assessing risk to understanding individual responsibilities and how safe systems of work are maintained.
- Who Needs This: New starters, frontline workers, supervisors, and anyone seeking a foundational IOSH qualification.
- Why It Is Important: Around 1.9 million workers in Great Britain suffer from work-related ill health each year. This course ensures workers understand their duties and know how to keep themselves and others safe.
- Benefits: Covers common workplace hazards, risk control methods, and safe systems of work. Completion leads to an IOSH certificate, issued within 28 days, with no expiry date.
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IOSH Managing Safely Refresher
For managers who have already completed Managing Safely, this refresher brings knowledge up to date and reinforces the core principles that underpin effective safety management. It revisits the Plan-Do-Check-Act model, leadership responsibilities, hazard control, and performance measurement.
- Who Needs This: Managers and supervisors who completed IOSH Managing Safely within the last five years.
- Why It Is Important: Health and safety management requires ongoing commitment. Legislation, guidance, and workplace risks evolve, and refresher training helps ensure that the systems in place remain effective and compliant.
- Benefits: Approximately four to five hours in duration, fully online, with a multiple-choice assessment. A new IOSH certificate is issued within 28 days of completion.
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IOSH SHE for Construction Site Managers
Construction site managers face risks that go well beyond what most general health and safety training covers. This IOSH health and safety training course is built specifically for that environment, covering construction site hazards, risk assessment, site setup, legal requirements, and how to respond to accidents and emergencies on site.
- Who Needs This: Site managers, project managers, supervisors, construction directors, and safety officers working in the construction sector.
- Why It Is Important: The construction sector has one of the poorest safety records of any industry, with 81,000 workers suffering work-related ill health and 61,000 non-fatal injuries per year, according to the HSE. Site managers have a direct duty to protect those who work on and around their sites.
- Benefits: Covers construction-specific hazards, risk control, site management, and incident reporting. Completion leads to an IOSH certificate, issued within 28 days.
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IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors
Safety leadership starts at the top. This course examines what health and safety management looks like at the executive level, covering the moral, legal, and financial case for proactive safety leadership and how to embed an effective management system across the whole organisation.
- Who Needs This: Executives, directors, board members, senior managers, and business owners.
- Why It Is Important: 138 people died in work-related accidents in the most recent year for which data was available, and the total cost of work-related injury and ill health to the British economy exceeds £20 billion. Effective IOSH-accredited training at the leadership level makes a measurable difference.
- Benefits: Covers the Plan-Do-Check-Act framework, governance, communication, risk management, and continuous improvement. Completion leads to an IOSH certificate, issued within 28 days.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Yes. Human Focus International is an IOSH-approved training provider (number 2462). All of our IOSH courses are delivered to IOSH’s quality standards, and certificates are issued by IOSH directly.
It depends on the role. Working Safely suits frontline employees, Managing Safely is for line managers and supervisors, SHE for Construction Site Managers is for those running construction sites, and Safety for Executives and Directors is for senior leaders with strategic responsibility. The Managing Safely Refresher is for managers who already hold the qualification and want to keep their knowledge current.
No. There are no formal entry requirements for any of our IOSH courses, except the Managing Safely Refresher, which is for learners with prior Managing Safely certification. A good standard of written and spoken English is recommended.
Working Safely can typically be completed in approximately four hours, while Managing Safely takes longer due to its broader content and practical risk assessment. Because everything is online, learners can complete the training in short sessions around their normal workload.
Most courses are assessed by an online theory test. Managing Safely and SHE for Construction Site Managers also require a practical risk assessment, submitted within two weeks and marked by an IOSH-approved marker.
On successful completion, Human Focus claims the digital IOSH certificate on the learner’s behalf. IOSH typically issues certificates within 28 days. Paper certificates can be requested at checkout for an additional fee.
Yes. IOSH certificates are recognised across industries and across borders, and are frequently requested by clients, contractors and supply-chain partners across many industries.
Yes. Bulk discounts are available, and we can provide a custom quote for larger groups.
IOSH is a Chartered membership body that accredits practical health and safety courses across organisational roles. NEBOSH is an examination board offering more academic, in-depth qualifications (Level 3 Certificate and Level 6 Diploma) aimed at dedicated health and safety professionals. Many learners start with IOSH and move on to NEBOSH if their career path demands it.
Every learner gets tutor support from our in-house health and safety team by email. Modules can be revisited as many times as needed before assessment.
If you don’t pass on the first attempt, contact our tutor support team. You can also ask us for an AI coach to help you ace the final assessment. They’ll guide you through the next steps and how to prepare for resubmission.
Use our free online tool at humanfocus.co.uk/verify-certificate. Verify by certificate number and surname, by learner details, or by uploading the certificate file. New certificates are added within 24 hours of course completion.
