CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety

The training day will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety. Workshop exercises throughout the day will give delegates the opportunity to discuss their thoughts about health, safety, and wellbeing and their responsibilities in an open forum.

Later in the day delegates will be involved in preparing an action plan for use when they return to your workplace. This will include a checklist that they can use when you return to their organisation to either review their current systems and develop and ensure compliance going forwards.

The course will also take into account the human, financial, legislative and non-legislative aspects of these roles too, as the health, safety and wellbeing responsibilities will also encompass other skills and behaviours to be able to cover the range of issues and aspects included within this one- day course. A Director or Senior Manager will also need to embrace how they become better advocates, influencers and supporters with respect to their health safety and wellbeing systems.

They also need to address how this impacts, on other staff and people working on their sites, to ensure that a positive health and safety culture is both developed and maintained.

Senior staff also have a direct impact on the moral, economic and behaviours of day- to-day business working. Alongside this they also need to understand and appreciate the potential legal implications to the business including the consequences of failing to recognise these and the serious implications on both people and the business that this can have. 

By the end of the day, delegates should be able to:

• Recognise the moral, economic, and legal costs and implications of decisions made in the boardroom that make their business liable.
• Understand the importance of strategic management of risk(s)
• Appreciate the consequences of failing to manage health, safety and wellbeing effectively
• Understand the importance of competent duty holders cooperating, communicating and coordinating health and safety throughout the whole project.
• Recognise the need to appoint competent health and safety assistance and the importance of supporting this role and to understand the limitations of such an appointment
• Identify the basic tools for introducing and developing a pro-active health and safety culture throughout the organisation. Including the role and responsibilities associated, with respect to the delegate’s position within the organisation

Delegates will receive a CITB Certificate upon successful completion of the course.