Health and safety
Managing Health and Safety Risk and the role of Directors and Senior Managers
Managing corporate risk is a key issue for all directors and senior managers in both public and private sector organisations. One significant risk area is the health and safety of an organisation’s employees, and of others (including the public) who may be affected by its activities.
The recent ‘Turnbull Report’ requires Directors to regularly review their systems of control for health and safety risk. The HSE have also published “Directors’ Responsibilities for health and safety”, which would be sited as best practice by HSE Inspectors seeking to secure compliance with the Law.
The Trainer will clarify the responsibilities for managing health and safety in any working environment and explore the scope of those responsibilities not only in core business activities but also in issues such as stress in the workplace, home working and use of mobile phones.
The Course is designed to be interactive, to facilitate discussion and to explore practical methods of improving business performance through more effective management of health and safety risk.
The course is aimed at Directors, Principals and Partners and Senior Managers
Course Programme
- Introduction
- Why manage health and safety risk
- Moral, economic and legal drivers
- Business Risk
- Turnbull and Corporate Governance
- Overview of Health and Safety Law and Liabilities
- Statute and Common Law
- Liability and Enforcement
- Statutory Duties
- Review of Principal Legislation
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999
- Other key legislation (current and future)
- Corporate Manslaughter/Corporate killing
- Review of Principal Legislation (cont’d)
- Risk Management Principles and Practice
- Loss Prevention
- Hazard Management and Risk Assessment Principles
- Risk Management in Practice
- Does it need to be recorded?
- Risk Assessment Exercise
- Scope of Risk
- ‘Health’ and Safety
- Core Business
- Workplace
- Contractors
- Public and Customers
- Current Issues
- Workplace Pressure (‘Stress’)
- Homeworking
- Questions and Discussion