Getting the business benefits

This one day course, accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), provides senior executives with a full understanding of their role in health and safety and how this should influence their strategic thinking and holistic risk management practices. This not only ensures that they can meet all their legal and corporate governance obligations, but shows how to put in place an integrated health and safety policy which can minimise their overall business risk, improve the productivity of the workforce and the quality of the product or service, and reduce costs such as healthcare and insurance premiums and compensation claims.

Who should attend?

This course is intended for the directors and managers who provide strategic leadership, direction and oversight for their organisation, whether it is in the private, public or voluntary sectors. These are the senior executives who set the policy on health and safety for their organisation.

What skills and information will they learn?

After successfully completing this course, participants will:

• Understand the health and safety role of senior executives
• Recognise the importance of integrating health and safety objectives with other business objectives in order to minimise the overall risk
• Be able to take account of health and safety aspects during strategic planning, decision making and effective supply chain management
• Know the consequences of failing to manage health and safety effectively
• Understand the principles of occupational safety and health management systems, continual improvement and annual reporting

Course content

A comprehensive manual and checklists are provided. The key elements of the course are:

Aims & Objectives

Senior Executives' Health & Safety Responsibilities

• Why does health and safety matter?
• The human cost of work
• Legal responsibilities: Health and Safety at Work Act and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
• Enforcement of criminal law
• Criminal law and civil law, Directors' responsibilities for health and safety

Corporate governance and health & safety

• The benefits of effective health and safety management
• Corporate Governance, The hidden costs of failure
• Annual reporting

Management systems

• Health and safety management systems
• Successful health and safety management, based on HSG65
• Alternative safety management system - BS EN ISO 14001 approach
• What next - action planning

Course information and how to book

The one day course is accredited by IOSH, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, Europe's leading professional body for health and safety practitioners.

At the end of the course, the participants' understanding of the course material will be evaluated by means of a two part assessment:

• a 15 minute written assessment, consisting of ten multiple-choice questions;
• a 30 minute project.

IOSH provides the certificates for the course and participants have to successfully complete both parts of the assessment in order to obtain a Safety for Senior Executives Certificate. The course is offered both in-house and as a public course. The in-house course costs £1,900 + VAT for up to 16 participants, a cost of £119 + VAT per head for a full course.

Public courses are managed by BIFM and details can be found on their website.

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What did previous participants think?

"This course was a delight from start to finish in every way. Well presented, constructive and informative. Well done!"

"Good clear presentation, nice balance between detail and broad issues."

"Plenty of interaction to clearly understand responsibilities."

"Well argued. Good pointers for testing own governance."

"Very good checklist of responsibilities and required action."

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