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IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors

This eLearning course helps business leaders to understand and fulfil their health and safety responsibilities, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of their employees.

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£249.00

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Course Description

What’s It About?

This comprehensive eLearning course helps business leaders to understand and fulfil their health and safety responsibilities. Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of employees is a moral imperative and a legal and financial necessity.

Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of their personal and corporate liabilities and know how to incorporate health and safety into decision-making and strategic planning. They will understand how to build a strong health and safety culture to secure the long-term success and reputation of the business.

Who’s It For?

This online IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors course is beneficial to senior leaders in organisations of all sizes across every sector.

What Does It Cover?

The moral, legal and financial case

    • Exploring the moral imperatives guiding health and safety practices and the legal responsibilities of executives and directors
    • Looking at the financial ramifications of inadequate health and safety management through case studies

Plan

    • How to develop a strategic health and safety plan aligned with the organisation’s goals and objectives. This includes identifying workplace hazards, assessing risks, establishing clear policies and procedures, implementing effective communication channels, and setting measurable objectives for health and safety improvement.

Do

    • Focusing on the implementation phase
    • How to allocate resources and responsibilities for health and safety, provide adequate training and competency development for employees, ensure compliance with regulations, establish emergency response procedures, and implement effective control measures to mitigate risk.

Check

    • How to establish systems for monitoring and measuring health and safety performance. This includes conducting regular inspections and audits, reviewing incident data, evaluating the effectiveness of control measures, and ensuring legal compliance through assessments and reviews.

Act<

    • Exploring ways to foster a culture of continuous improvement in health and safety
    • How to encourage employee involvement, review and update policies based on lessons learned, implement corrective actions, and promote a positive safety culture throughout the organisation

Final Review

  • An opportunity to reflect on personal and organisational progress in health and safety management
  • Participants will assess their confidence levels, identify areas for further development, establish plans for ongoing professional development, and review key insights gained from the course

How Long Does It Take?

The IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors eLearning course takes approximately 6 hours to complete in the candidates own time.

Who Is It Accredited By?

This IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors eLearning course is accredited by the Institute of Safety and Health, one of the leading providers of regulated health and safety qualifications.

How Does It Work?

Our eLearning programmes are available on multiple platforms such as tablets, PCs, Macs and laptops. All you need is an Internet connection. Candidates log on to the Learner Management System and work their way through the course. Included in the course are scenarios that provide them with real-life context.

Our courses simplify even the most complex subjects through media and content-rich exercises that motivate and engage candidates. The key elements of our eLearning courses are:

  • They engage learners through multimedia elements, simulations, and interactive exercises. This encourages active participation and increases learning retention.
  • Our learning management system, SHINE, enables administrators to track candidates’ progress, the courses they have attended and the dates, which supports health and safety compliance.
  • There are multiple-choice quizzes throughout the courses so candidates can check their understanding as they progress and consolidate their learning.
  • Each module concludes with a summary, reinforcing key concepts and enhancing understanding.

How’s It Assessed?

At the end of the IOSH Safety for Executives eLearning course there is a personal commitment statement which gives candidates an opportunity to reflect on personal and organisational progress in health and safety management. This will be graded as a pass or fail depending on the information submitted. Candidates will be given feedback if they fail so they can amend their statement in order to pass.

On successful completion of the course candidates will receive an IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors Certificate.