IOSH Safety For Senior Executives

Overview
This programme provides senior executives with a clear understanding of their personal and Corporate responsibilities for health and safety management, together with the very real financial, HR and PR benefits of effectively integrating health and safety issues into the Corporate governance and risk management practices of their organisation.

Duration
1 day

Who should attend
Board Directors, Managing Directors and Senior Executives who hold the ultimate responsibility for the health and safety performance of their organisation.

Benefits to you & your organisation
By the end of the course delegates will be able to: -
• Understand their role and responsibilities with respect to health and safety at work.
• Recognise the importance of integrating health and safety objectives into other key business
• Understand performance objectives and good corporate governance.
• Take account of health and safety issues during business planning and decision-making.
• Understand the financial and legal consequences of failing to manage health and safety
effectively.
• Understand the principles of an effective health and safety management system, including
• Identify the potential of performance monitoring and continual improvement.
• Recognise the importance of developing a positive safety culture to reduce unsafe behaviour
and recognise the role that senior executives play in that process.

Course content includes
• Corporate governance, risk management and loss control.
• The Turnbull Report.
• Director’s guidelines.
• The loss triangle and the costs of accidents and incidents at work.
• Key criminal law responsibilities and sanctions.
• Key civil law liabilities.
• Immediate and underlying causation of accidents.
• Management system models – HSG65, BS8800, OHSAS18001.
• The role of risk assessment
• Performance monitoring and target setting
• Training
• Developing a positive safety culture