Health & safety briefing for directors

A bite-sized session

This short session gives directors an overview of what is expected from them with regards to health and safety compliance and guidance on how to achieve it.

Objectives

Learning objectives

By the end of the workshop directors will:

  • Understand the importance of strategic health and safety management and its interaction with other business systems
  • Understand the statutory duties and what the board and wider leadership team should be doing to ensure compliance
  • Appreciate the benefits of managing health and safety effectively
  • Appreciate the significance of performance monitoring for continual improvement of health and safety management
  • Have discussed key topics relevant to their business

Audience

Who should attend?

Health and safety is a collective responsibility at board level and therefore the entire board should attend. The session can also be run for the broader leadership/senior management team.

Format

Format

  • Usually delivered as a bite-sized two-hour session.
  • Highly interactive, with plenty of discussion around different scenarios and issues of specific concern to you and your organisation

Meet the trainer

Meet the trainer

Subash is a Past President and Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). A Chartered Fellow of IOSH, he has a wealth of experience in safety and health risk management, having worked across a range of sectors and disciplines in a truly diverse 25-year career to date. A very popular trainer, as well as a hugely respected consultant, he is also a prolific author.

Workshop outline

The focus is on safety and health and what it means for different leadership roles. The session can be tailored to the needs of both the organisation and the individual directors.

  • The responsibilities and behaviours of a leader
  • What effective safety and health leadership looks like
  • How to get things right
  • How leaders can make improvements
  • The benefits of effective safety and health leadership

For a no-obligation discussion about running this programme for your organisation on an in-house basis, just give us a call on 01582 463465.