Course duration: 1 Day

Overview

Who Should Attend:

Senior Executives and Directors who provide strategic leadership, direction and oversight and set the policy on health and safety for their organisation and also directors who implement the policy at strategic level.

Course Aims:

To ensure that Senior Executives and Directors:

Understand the health and safety role and responsibilities of senior executives;

Recognize the importance of integrating health and safety objectives with other business objectives in order to minimize risk;

Identify how health and safety should influence thinking during strategic planning, decision making and effective supply chain management;

Know the consequences of failing to manage health and safely effectively;

Understand the principles of occupational safety and health management systems,continual improvement and annual reporting. .

Introduction and Setting Course Objectives

Senior Executives & Directors Health & Safety Responsibilities

Examination of the Legal duties imposed on directors and the moral issues.

Syndicate Exercise 1: Identify legal responsibilities in specified accident scenario

Corporate Governance and Health & Safety

The business case for effective management of health and safety risk, including “hidden cost” of failure and requirements for annual reporting.