Description
Course Information
- One day course
- One session
- From 9am to 5pm
- Online via Zoom
- CITB grant and CHSG Membership discount eligible
- CITB certification for 5 years
- No pre-requisites required
Course Overview
The Directors Role for Health and Safety one day course 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 and safety and responsibilities in an open forum.
The day will conclude with delegates preparing an action plan for use when they return to the workplace. This will include a checklist to utilise within their organisation that will help to ensure compliance with legislation.
By the end of this course delegates will be able to :
- Recognise the moral, economic and legal costs/implications of decisions made in the boardroom that make your business liable
- Understand the importance of strategic management of risks
- Appreciate the consequences of failing to manage health and safety 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 limitations of such an appointment
- Identify the basic tools for introducing a proactive health and safety culture into your organisation
Delegates will receive a CITB certificate upon successful completion of the course.
Course Content
This course will cover the following topic areas:
- Aims and Objectives – Moral, economic and legal costs and implications of making decisions
- The Health and Safety Strategy Influences – Strategic management of risks
- Getting it Right – Consequences of failed health and safety management
- Plan, Deliver, Monitor and Review CDM Duty Holders Roles – Importance of competent duty holders and cooperating, communicating and coordinating health and safety on projects
- Putting People to Work Safely – Appointment of competent health and safety assistance
- Safety Leadership Action Plan – Basic tools to introduce a proactive health and safety culture into an organisation
Location
All remote training is conducted online through Zoom. You’ll be sent joining instructions after you’ve booked and paid for your place on the course.