Managing Safely for Managers

The Managing Safely for Managers course from the American Institute of Safety Professionals provides safety competency training specifically designed for managers whose primary function is NOT safety but who carry safety accountability as part of their management role. Every manager operations, production, maintenance, HR, finance, logistics is accountable for the safety of the people they manage. Yet most managers receive no safety training beyond the basic awareness provided to all workers. This course closes that gap by teaching the safety competencies managers need: understanding their legal obligations, conducting risk assessments, investigating incidents, managing safety performance, and leading safety culture.

The curriculum covers the manager’s legal and moral safety obligations, understanding how safety management systems work, risk assessment for managers (identifying hazards in their areas, evaluating risk, implementing controls), incident investigation from the manager’s perspective (what went wrong in the system, not just what the worker did), safety performance management (metrics, reporting, resource allocation), leading safety culture (visible leadership, communication, recognition, accountability), managing contractors and visitors in their areas, and the practical safety decisions managers face daily. All training is delivered 100 percent online through Microsoft Teams and the American Institute of Safety Professionals LMS. Upon completion, graduates receive a certificate, wallet card, and transcript, employer-verifiable at amiosp.com/student-verifications.

Upon completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the manager’s legal safety obligations: duty of care, OSHA employer responsibilities, personal liability awareness, and the legal accountability that every manager carries.
• Conduct risk assessments for their area of responsibility: identifying hazards, evaluating risk, implementing controls, and the practical risk management that managers must perform.
• Investigate incidents from the management perspective: determining what the system failed to provide, not just what the individual did wrong.
• Manage safety performance: understanding TRIR, DART, leading indicators, resource allocation decisions, and the performance management that drives improvement.
• Lead safety culture: visible leadership, safety communication, recognition, accountability, and the daily leadership behaviours that create the culture workers experience.
• Manage contractors and visitors: ensuring safety requirements are communicated and enforced for everyone in their area, not just direct employees.

Core Curriculum Topics

• Manager’s Legal Obligations: duty of care, OSHA responsibilities, personal liability
• Safety Management Systems: how they work, manager’s role within them
• Risk Assessment for Managers: hazard ID, risk evaluation, control implementation
• Incident Investigation for Managers: system failures, not just individual errors
• Safety Performance Management: metrics, reporting, resource allocation
• Safety Culture Leadership: visibility, communication, recognition, accountability
• Contractor and Visitor Safety: communication, enforcement, area management
• Daily Safety Decisions: the practical choices managers face every day

• No prior training required
• No academic degree required
• All instruction in English; working proficiency required

Upon completion, graduates receive an American Institute of Safety Professionals certificate, wallet card, and transcript. Employer-verifiable at amiosp.com/student-verifications.

• Operations and production managers who carry safety accountability
• Department managers in any function (HR, finance, logistics, IT)
• Project managers with team safety responsibilities
• General managers and business unit leaders
• Any manager who supervises people but has no formal safety training

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