Health and Safety for Directors

Overview

It’s every company director’s nightmare: there’s been a major health and safety incident and people are hurt. Prioritising health and safety at an organisation’s senior level can prevent accidents like this from taking place.

Through continual assessment, review, and improvement, directors can build a solid health and safety culture. This Take 5 course guides senior leaders through the process.

Objectives

In this course you will learn to:

• Recognise the key benefits of prioritising health and safety in their organisation
• Explain the importance of risk management for senior managers
• List the main consequences of failing to implement effective health and safety in an organisation
• Describe the ways they can contribute to a health and safety culture, including providing adequate training to staff and setting a good personal example

About the Course

Through continual assessment, review, and improvement, directors can build a solid health and safety culture, which keeps everyone in the business safe. This negates the risk of accidents at work, and helps to improve the working environment in general.