The Modern Approach: Skills
for the next generation of OSH
Practitioner
The IOSH Approved Coaching for safety Coaches use ‘coaching models’ to And since the launch of IOSH Blueprint,
programme from Securus Health & facilitate conversations and they the competence framework for OSH
Safety Limited is entering it’s 6th year use techniques like the Empty Chair Practitioners, the ability to coach is fast
and an increasing number of occupational technique to challenge assumptions and becoming a required skill.
safety and health (OSH) Practitioners change perspectives.
What is IOSH Approved Coaching for
from across all industry sectors are
benefiting – as are their organisations. Why do safety people need these skills? safety?
Widely misunderstood, coaching Safety people know about the law It is a highly-participative 2-day course
is often equated with training but and the standards that need to be built around a series of live coaching
more accurately, it is about the ability achieved and how others have solved conversations involving real-life issues
to collaborate; a skill not normally problems. This is the greater knowledge and problems the delegates bring
associated with the standard health and and understanding they bring to a themselves – there is absolutely no
safety stereotype. conversation and they are prized for role-play.
it. But helping colleagues or clients to
What is coaching?
explore problems and find the best How the skills can be integrated in to
solutions for them, solutions that they daily life in the workplace, whatever it is
Put simply, coaches are collaborative can buy into and own and manage the workplace looks like, is an important
partners who exist to be supportive going forward is a collaborative exercise part of the programme.
and to help their colleagues and clients that requires more than technical perform better. They talk less and listen capability alone. It requires curiosity, This course is about the modus-operandi
more and they listen better. skillful questioning and advanced, active of the practitioner so it’s not specific to
listening skills – all attributes of a great any sector.
They tell less and question more and
coach.
their ability to ask person-focused
This course is about helping all OSH
questions means that they are able to Leading safety professionals advocate
support their colleagues and clients even a coaching approach. They emphasise
when they have no technical knowledge the importance of balancing technical
to contribute. knowledge with complementary
communication skills.
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people be the very best they can be.
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