Leading Health & Safety
What you will learn
- Understand the leadership responsibilities directors and senior managers hold for health and safety.
- Identify significant workplace hazards and oversee proportionate risk controls.
- Set clear expectations and lead by example.
- Involve workers in health and safety decisions and encourage them to raise concerns.
- Interpret health and safety performance information and ask effective assurance questions.
- Respond constructively to incidents and use investigations to identify wider lessons.
- Build health and safety into business planning, operational change and everyday decisions.
- Develop a practical action plan to strengthen health and safety leadership.
Who the Course is for
The Business Leaders Series is designed for company directors and senior managers who want to strengthen their understanding of health, safety and environmental responsibilities. Whether you lead an organisation, oversee operations or contribute to strategic decisions, these courses will help you understand the key principles, legal duties and management systems relevant to your role. You will gain practical insights to support informed decision-making, provide effective oversight and embed responsible leadership across your organisation.
Course Details
Leading Health and Safety is a practical course for company directors and senior managers who want to lead safer, healthier organisations. It explores how leaders can set clear expectations, understand their responsibilities, oversee significant risks and build a culture where people are encouraged to speak up and learn.
Participants will develop the confidence to ask better questions, review health and safety performance, respond constructively to incidents and embed health and safety into everyday business decisions. The course concludes with a practical action plan tailored to each participant’s organisation.
Modules
Module 1: Leadership and accountability
- What health and safety leadership means at director and senior manager level
- Roles, responsibilities and lines of accountability
- Setting expectations and leading by example
Module 2: Governance and legal responsibilities
- The organisation’s health and safety duties
- Director and senior manager responsibilities
- How health and safety fits into corporate governance and assurance
Module 3: Understanding risk
- Identifying significant workplace hazards
- Assessing and managing risk
- Applying the hierarchy of controls
- Managing change, contractors and higher-risk work
Module 4: Building a positive safety culture
- How leadership behaviour shapes workplace culture
- Employee consultation and participation
- Supporting reporting, learning and psychological safety
Module 5: Measuring and reviewing performance
- Choosing useful leading and lagging indicators
- Reviewing inspections, audits and incident trends
- Asking effective questions and challenging weak assurance
Module 6: Incident response and organisational learning
- Responding to incidents and near misses
- Investigation principles and root causes
- Turning lessons into corrective action and prevention
Module 7: Health, wellbeing and emerging risks
- Work-related health and wellbeing
- Fatigue, stress and other psychosocial risks
- Recognising new and changing risks in the organisation
Module 8: Putting leadership into practice
- Integrating health and safety into business decisions
- Board-level review and continuous improvement
- Creating a practical leadership action plan
To find out more about this course or any other courses we offer, please contact one of our team.
