IOSH Award Directing Safely

Accredited IOSH Award Directing Safely Training Course.

Increasingly health and safety is now widely accepted as a board level perfomance issue.

There has been a growing focus on the health and safety responsibilities of directors and senior managers in all organisations, culminating in the introduction of the new offence of Corporate manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, where an offence will be comitted where failings of the organisation's senior management are a substantial element in any gross breach of a duty of care which results in a persons death

The Health and Safety Executive have continued to focus on the business benefits of effective health and safety management while continuing to bear down on poor performers. This course has been designed to enable delegates to gain an understanding of a director’s role in agreeing and driving forward an effective management strategy.

Course Content

Why direct safely
Health and safety legislation
Overview of Corporate manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
Criminal and civil law
Individual roles, responsibilities and liabilities inc the New Offences Act
Planning for health and safety
Implementation of health and safety management systems
Monitoring health and safety
Audit and Review.

Who is it for?

This course is aimed at directors and other senior executives with strategic responsibilities for determining and implementing effective health and safety management.

Course Duration

This is a one day course.

Certification

Delegates who successfully complete the written and practical assessments at the end of the course are awarded an IOSH certificate in Directing Safely.

Accreditation

IOSH Accredited.

We can either deliver this course in-house on your own business premises or you can attend one of scheduled courses, please contact us on the information below for more details.

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