Director Involvement in Health and Safety

In the decade it has taken to secure the introduction of the new offence of Corporate Manslaughter (C M Regulations), there has been a growing focus on the health and safety responsibilities of directors and senior managers in all organisations.

Under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, an offence will be committed where failings by an organisation's senior management are a substantial element in any gross breach of the duty of care owed to the organisation's employees or members of the public which results in death. (HSE/IoD guidance).

Increasingly, health and safety is now accepted as a board level corporate performance issue, an important dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility on which organisations should report to their stakeholders. 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 will enable delegates to gain an understanding of a director's role in agreeing and driving forward health and safety strategy.

All delegates who successfully complete the course will be awarded a RoSPA certificate of training.

Programme

• Introduction - course administration, aims and objectives.
• Health and safety - core actions at board level. Consideration of the essential principles of planning for health and safety, reflecting on the importance of the topic as a corporate governance issue.
• Health and safety - delivering the message. Exploration of the director's role in building health and safety into the organisation; adequate resources, access to competent advice, worker involvement at all levels.
• Health and safety - monitoring and review. Significance of adopting a practical approach to ensure health and safety issues are addressed competently and systematically.
• Health and safety - inputs, outputs and outcomes. Review of case studies, where the health and safety equation has been balanced.
• Open forum.