Course Details
- COURSE PRICE: £219 (exc. VAT)
- DURATION: 1 DAY COURSE
- ASSESSMENT: MULTIPLE CHOICE
- CERTIFICATE LENGTH: 5 YEARS
- ACCREDITATION: CITB
- RATIO: 4-20 CANDIDATES
- LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
- REFUNDS / CANCELLATIONS: PLEASE CONTACT THE TEAM AT HASWELL TRAINING TO CANCEL OR RESCHEDULE A BOOKING
DIRECTOR'S ROLE FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY COURSE
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Our CITB Director's Role for Health & Safety course is designed for company director's, business owners and senior managers who have responsibility for health and safety within their organisation.
The course provides director's with a clear understanding of their legal, moral and financial responsibilities and helps them develop a strong health and safety culture throughout their business.
Who Is This Course For?
Company Director's
Business Owners
Managing Director's
Senior Managers
Partners and Proprietors
Construction Director's and Senior Leaders
Anyone with strategic responsibility for health & safety
This course has been developed for directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment from any organisational size in construction, civil engineering or allied trades, and therefore this should be considered before enrolling delegates on to this course.
Examples of relevant roles (not exhaustive) are:
Financial/Operations director
Senior quantity surveyor (QS)
Private QS
Principal designer
Senior/principal engineer
Company secretary
Contracts manager
Senior project manager
Non-executive director
What Will You Learn?
During the course, delegates will explore the key responsibilities of directors and senior leaders, including:
recognise the moral, economic and legal costs and implications of decisions made in the boardroom that may make their business liable
understand the significance of strategic management of risks
appreciate the range of consequences from failing to manage health and safety effectively
understand the importance of competent duty holders, and the significance of their cooperation, communication and co-ordination of health and safety on projects
recognise the need to appoint competent health and safety assistance, and the limitations of such an appointment, and
identify the basic tools to introduce a proactive health and safety culture into an organisation, and the benefits of this approach.
Why Health & Safety Leadership Matters
Directors play a crucial role in creating and maintaining a safe working environment. Effective leadership can help reduce workplace accidents and ill health, improve employee engagement, strengthen your company's reputation and reduce the financial and legal risks associated with poor health and safety performance.
The course helps directors move beyond simply meeting minimum legal requirements and understand how strong leadership can make health and safety an integral part of business decision-making.
Book your CITB Directors' Role for Health & Safety course today.
How this course will help you
Understand your legal responsibilities – Know your duties as a director and the potential consequences of failing to meet them.
Lead health and safety effectively – Learn how to demonstrate visible and effective leadership within your organisation.
Manage workplace risks – Understand how to identify, assess and control health and safety risks.
Build a positive safety culture – Encourage safer behaviours and make health and safety part of everyday business decisions.
Protect your employees and business – Reduce the likelihood of accidents, ill health, enforcement action and associated costs.
Make better decisions – Understand what information you need to monitor health and safety performance and where to seek competent advice.
Improve business performance – Effective health and safety management can improve productivity, employee confidence and your company's reputation.
As a director, your decisions influence the safety of everyone working within your organisation. This course gives you the practical knowledge to lead from the top, manage your responsibilities and create a safer, more successful business.
