Health & Safety and ISO Training for UK Manufacturers
Bespoke, in-house training that fits your shop floor, your language, and your people - not a stock slide deck recycled from another industry.
Manchester-based. Working UK-wide. Trusted by many.
Most off-the-shelf training courses have the same problem: generic examples, classroom language, and content your team forgets within a fortnight because none of it looked like their actual job. You pay per head, people sit through it, certificates get filed, and nothing on the shop floor actually changes.
DBIM delivers training built around your business. We use your equipment, your risks, your incident history, and your people's language. The learning sticks because it's recognisable, and because the person delivering it has spent 15 years on real industrial sites, not just in a training room.
Who We Help
We work with UK manufacturing and industrial SMEs where training has either been neglected, outsourced to a one-size-fits-all provider, or is about to be tested by an audit, a new hire cohort, or a change in the business.
You're probably here because:
You've identified a competence gap - usually after an audit, near-miss, or insurance review
Your supervisors and line managers need to have better safety conversations on the floor
You're onboarding new operators and want H&S induction done properly, not just a video and a signature
You want IOSH-level training delivered bespoke to your site rather than in a generic classroom
You're pursuing ISO 9001, 14001 or 45001 and need the training pillar of the standard covered credibly
You want training that your team actually finds useful, not another morning lost to corporate PowerPoint
If any of that resonates, we can help.
H&S Training
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Site-specific, role-specific, covering the risks your new hires will actually encounter in their first week.
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How to run toolbox talks that land, how to have difficult safety conversations, how to investigate a near-miss properly.
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The recognised qualification for managers and supervisors, delivered around your equipment and examples rather than a generic case study.
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Manual handling, working at height, confined space awareness, LOTO, machinery safety, COSHH awareness, DSEAR awareness, fire marshal.
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Root-cause analysis for supervisors and H&S champions, using your own incident log as the training material.
ISO and management systems training
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For the wider workforce, so everybody understands what the standard means for their day-to-day work when the external auditor visits.
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For the person (or team) who'll maintain the system long-term, covering document control, corrective action, management review, and audit cycle planning.
Leadership and culture training
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The behaviours that shape culture from the top. Short, sharp, board-level sessions.
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Developing the people on your floor who carry the culture day-to-day.
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Train your supervisors to deliver toolbox talks that people actually engage with.
Our Approach
Every training engagement follows the same principles:
Built around your site.
We visit first, understand your operation, review your incident history, and build the course content from what we find. Your machinery, your hazards, your language.
Delivered by someone who's done the job.
Qualified advise and industry experience before consultancy. Your team won't sit through a trainer who's never set foot on a shop floor.
Measured.
Pre- and post-training assessments where relevant, and a follow-up review to check that the learning has transferred onto the floor - not just onto a certificate.
Short, practical, participative.
No one retains six hours of slides. We break sessions into focused modules with discussion, real scenarios from your site, and practical exercises.
How We Engage
We don't do open-enrolment public courses. Everything is built for a specific client.
Single-course delivery - fixed fee for a specific training session, designed and delivered around your site. Good for IOSH Managing Safely, or targeted task training.
Training programme - a defined programme of multiple sessions across the year, covering induction, refresher, and specialist topics. Fixed monthly or quarterly fee.
Retained training partner - training built into a wider retained consultancy relationship, so your training needs evolve alongside the rest of your H&S, ISO and compliance work.
Industries We Know
Manufacturing and engineering
Chemical processing and hazardous substances (COSHH, DSEAR)
Warehousing, distribution and logistics
Food and beverage production
Plastics, rubber and composites
Metalwork and fabrication
Manufacturing and engineering Chemical processing and hazardous substances (COSHH, DSEAR) Warehousing, distribution and logistics Food and beverage production Plastics, rubber and composites Metalwork and fabrication
Why DBIM?
DBIM is built around one principle: health and safety should improve how your business operates, not slow it down.
With a background in manufacturing and chemicals, the approach is grounded in real operational environments — where risk, production pressure, and commercial performance all intersect. This isn’t theoretical advice. It’s practical, experience-led support that works on the shop floor.
Systems are delivered with a clear focus on outcomes. That means ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 frameworks that are not only compliant, but embedded and effective. It also means a proven track record in improving safety culture, strengthening accountability, and reducing repeat issues.
Most importantly, the focus stays on performance: not paperwork.
Start the Conversation
If your current approach to health and safety is reactive, inconsistent, or overly reliant on documentation, it’s time to take a different approach.
You don’t need more policies. You need a system that works.
Book a call to discuss your requirements or request a proposal tailored to your business. From there, we can define what support looks like in practice and how it will deliver measurable improvement.
Frequently Asked Questions
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For IOSH and NEBOSH-level qualifications we work with accredited partners and can advise on the best route for your team. Most of our training is bespoke and built around your specific site - if you need a formal accredited certificate we'll tell you honestly whether that's the right fit.
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Course-level delivery typically ranges from £1,000 to £2,500 per day depending on content depth, group size, and materials required. Multi-session programmes work out more economically. We give fixed quotes after a scoping call - no hidden per-head fees.
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We recommend 6–12 per group for practical training so everyone gets meaningful participation. Awareness-level sessions can run with larger groups. For bigger cohorts we'll run multiple sessions.
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Standard modules we already have in our library can be tailored and delivered within 2–3 weeks. Fully bespoke courses typically take 4-6 weeks from scoping to delivery - most of that is the site visit, document review, and content build.
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Yes. Our train-the-trainer option covers course delivery, materials handover, and ongoing support so your internal trainer owns the programme going forward. This is often the most cost-effective option for businesses running regular inductions.
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Yes - DBIM certificates of completion for bespoke courses, IOSH certificates for accredited IOSH delivery, and formal records suitable for your training matrix and ISO audit evidence.