Health & Safety for Directors

Course Content

Now, more than ever, Directors are being held personally liable for breaches of Health & Safety within the workplace. The chances of imprisonment have been greatly increased of recent times. The new Corporate Manslaughter Act will take effect from April 2008. This course is designed exclusively for Directors and business owners. It will give them an in-depth insight into the huge responsibilities that they now have under Health & Safety Legislation.

The course will have input from practitioners who have ‘hands-on’ experience of dealing with Health & Safety prosecutions.

• Health & Safety Legislation (The essential bits)
• Directors individual responsibilities
• The Legal Position / recent case law
• The Health & Safety Policy
• The Risk Assessment
• The importance of the "Competent Person"
• COSHH
• Fire & Fire Risk Assessments
• Accidents & Accident Investigation
• The Enforcing Authorities
• Civil & Criminal Prosecutions
• Future Developments

Related Courses

• health & safety for beginners
• health & safety for the office environment
• health & safety risk assessment
• effective COSHH management
• corporate manslaughter