Duration: One day

Course Overview

Recent HSE guidance for directors and senior managers suggests that:

• The board needs to accept formally and publicly its collective role in providing health and safety leadership in its organisation.
• Each member of the board needs to accept their individual role in providing health and safety leadership for their organisation.
• The board needs to ensure that all board decisions reflect its health and safety intentions, as articulated in the health and safety policy statement.
• The board needs to recognise its role in engaging the active participation of workers in improving health and safety.

The course provides Directors and Senior Managers with a complete understanding of their responsibilities under health and safety law.

Course Content

• Health and Safety legislation.
• Principles of Health and Safety Management.
• HSG65.
• Health and Safety management standards – TQM / OHSAS18001.

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