Safety leadership for managers and directors

What the course covers

1. Legal duties and accountability

   The duties on organisations, personal liability for directors and managers, and how courts sentence health and safety offences.

   • What the law requires of organisations
   • Personal liability and sentencing
   • What good leadership looks like

2. Managing health and safety as a system

   Plan, do, check, act; getting competent advice; and balancing resources and competing priorities.

   • Plan, do, check, act
   • Getting competent advice
   • Resources and competing priorities

3. Measuring performance

   Leading and lagging indicators, what boards should see, and audits and reviews that drive improvement.

   • Leading and lagging indicators
   • What the board should see
   • Audits and management review

4. Culture, involvement and health

   Building a culture where people speak up, consulting the workforce, and treating health as seriously as safety.

   • Leading a positive safety culture
   • Involving and consulting workers
   • Health as seriously as safety

Assessment and certificate

• A short quiz after each unit, with the reason for every answer.
• A final assessment of 20 questions; the pass mark is 70%.
• Pass it on a paid plan for a certificate of completion with a QR code anyone can check.

This is online awareness training, not an accredited qualification. It doesn't on its own show someone is competent for a task.