IOSH (Institution of Occupational Health and Safety) Safety Awareness for Executives

As well as the UK, we have recently ran this course in California USA, Germany and Finland to an international audience with excellent feedback.

Background

The IOSH Safety Awareness for Executives course is established as a standard in Executive/Director health and safety training. Executives throughout the world have attended this course to ensure they are clearly aware of how to protect the companies' most important asset – the people who work for them.

This course is for the people who provide strategic leadership, direction and oversight and set the policy on health and safety. For incorporated bodies this will be the board of directors. In public and voluntary sector organisations it will usually be the senior management board that provides strategic oversight and direction. The principles involved in achieving health and safety requirements are the same regardless of geographical location and legal compliance. So the IOSH Safety Awareness for Executives course is the perfect for use throughout the world in any work environment.

Course Aim

This course won't turn delegates into safety experts. It focuses on strategic management of health and safety and how executives can make a real difference in preventing accidents and ill health in the workplace in accordance with good corporate governance and the principles of risk management.

Who Should Attend

The course is intended for people with strategic responsibility for determining and implementing effective health and safety management within an organisation.

Objectives

On completion of this course, delegates should be able to:

• Understand the importance of strategic health and safety management and its integration into other business management systems.
• Understand directors' and employees' statutory duties identify accident causes and plan for prevention through risk assessment and prevention.
• Appreciate the consequences of failing to manage health and safety.
• Effectively understand the importance of employee selection and the effect of human factors on health and safety
• Recognise the importance of consultation and communication with employees on health and safety issues
• Appreciate the significance of performance monitoring for continual improvement of health and safety management

Module 1   The moral and financial reasons for managing health and safety.
Module 2   The legal reasons for managing health and safety.
Module 3   How accidents are caused.
Module 4   Gaining control of health and safety.
 

Relevant legislation (where applicable) will be discussed within the context of each module. We will also include any other topic areas relevant to the delegate group attending i.e. if your core business is transport and distribution we will add an extra module covering health and safety aspects of that particular topic.

Course Duration

The duration of study for this course is 1 Day.

Examination Information

Understanding of the course material is evaluated by means of a 15-minute written assessment paper consisting of 10 multi-choice questions and a project designed to test the delegate's knowledge of acceptable records/documentary evidence required to support an organisation's defence in litigation. An IOSH 'Safety Awareness for Executives' certificate is awarded to all those who attend the course and successfully complete both the written and practical assessments.

Other Information

This course takes into account UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance (INDG417(rev1) which explains how directors can ensure that their organisation has an active and effective approach to managing health and safety risks. A link to the document can be found here

Oracle Safety Associates present this course as in-company package.

Please contact us for further details.