IOSH Safety for Senior Executives and Directors

The IOSH Safety for Senior Executives & Directors course is suitable for Directors, Vice Presidents, Senior Executives and other senior managers who have the operational and/or strategic responsibility for policy making, planning and the effective implementation of their organisation’s health and safety arrangements.

Course Content 

The IOSH Safety for Senior Executives & Directors course covers the following areas:

• Basic principles of health and safety – moral, financial and legal.
• Concept of safety management – using the Plan/Do/Check/Act model
• Importance of health and safety strategy, plans and objectives.
• Management of occupational risk – risk profiling.
• The legal framework—criminal and civil, corporate manslaughter, corporate and personal liabilities.
• Enforcement arrangements.
• Safety leadership – key actions a senior manager can take.
• Reviewing your health and safety performance and risk management arrangements.

Expected Outcomes

Having attended the course delegates should be able to:

• Understand the health and safety roles and responsibilities of Senior Executives.
• Recognise the importance of integrating health and safety objectives with other business objectives.
• 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 health and safety management, the importance safety culture and continual improvement and the role of regular reviews of health and safety performance within the organisation.