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306 - IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors

IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors is a one day course, focused on practical knowledge about the impact of safety on business's, and how leaders can promote a strong health and safety culture across their teams.

What is the IOSH Safety For Executives and Directors course?

The one day, IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors course provides business leaders with the safety knowledge needed for their role. This includes the importance of health and safety, why safety should be a key factor in business decisions, and other areas which put safety in the context of the wider business and its objectives.

Designed by IOSH (the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health), the course is designed with global best practice in mind. It's globally recognised and the choice of many business leaders seeking to improve their business's safety practices.

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Benefits for Employers

  • Leaders who consider safety when decision making are less at risk of overlooking compliance requirements, reducing the chance of lapses

  • Helps embed a strong health and safety culture throughout the business

  • Encourages other team members to follow leadership's initiative and not treat safety like a tick box exercise

Benefits for Learners

  • An ideal CPD opportunity, helping to build leadership skills and safety awareness

  • Helps build leadership confidence through formal, globally recognised training

  • Provides an awareness of safety legislation and compliance, giving business leaders peace of mind that their organisation is doing everything necessary to maintain compliance.

Student Approved  

Phoenix assists thousands every year in acquiring their IOSH Certificates, delivering an unbeatable service reflected in our 5/5 rating on Trustpilot. 

Student Support

We pride ourselves on offering the best study support in the industry. From our thriving Facebook student community to direct access to our team of experts and top-tier learning materials, we go above and beyond to ensure you have everything you need to succeed in your studies. When you choose Phoenix, you’re never alone on your journey.

Approved Partner  

Phoenix Health and Safety is an IOSH Approved Partner. This means our IOSH course materials, tutors, and learning environments are all quality-assured and stamped with excellence.  

The Phoenix Pass Pledge  

Every Phoenix IOSH course entitles you to continue studying free of charge if you fail to meet the required standard in examinations, though with pass rates above industry standard this is rarely required. 

IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors is suitable for senior leaders in businesses. This includes directors, executives and anyone else making significant business decisions, especially those that involve health and safety.

The IOSH Safety for Directors and Executives course takes one day to complete and can be studied in-house.

IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors consists of 5 modules:

Element 1: The moral, legal and financial case

  • Cost of poor health and safety at work

  • Benefits of good health and safety performance

  • Key health and safety legislation

  • Legal implications

  • Corporate social responsibility

  • Three essential principles

  • Health and safety management systems

Element 2: Planning for Health and Safety

  • Determining your health and safety policy

  • Planning to implement the policy

  • Corporate governance

  • Actions you can take

Element 3: Implementing for health and safety

  • Profiling your organisation’s risks

  • Risk factors

  • Risk ranking

  • Taking action

  • Workplace risk assessment

  • Actions you can take

  • Organising

  • Control

  • Co-operation

  • Communication

  • Competence

  • Actions you can take

  • Implementing your plan

  • Documentation that supports implementation

  • Implementing risk control plans

  • Actions you can take

Element 4: Monitoring for health and safety

  • Measuring performance

  • Investigating accidents

  • External changes

  • Actions you can take

Element 5: Improving health and safety performance

  • Reviewing performance

  • Learning lessons

  • The importance of leadership

  • Actions you can take

After completing this course, candidates will be able to:

  • Describe the legal, moral and financial role of operational directors, owners of small businesses and senior executives, including their responsibilities, liabilities and accountabilities, both personal and organisational 

  • Explain the importance of safety and health at top-management level and how integrating those objectives into other business management objectives can help to minimise risk, reduce losses and make better use of time and resources 

  • Illustrate how to plan the direction for safety and health through developing and implementing a safety and health policy, and integrating it into business systems  

  • Explain the value of an adequately resourced and efficient safety and health management system, the value and benefits of training at all levels, and when to access competent advice  

  • Outline the benefits of good safety and health management systems, the consequences of failing to manage effectively, and how to ensure internal controls are working  

  • Describe the importance of reviewing and continually improving management systems, especially following change or failure 

  • Explain the positive impact and improvement that an organisation’s leaders can have on its performance through their attitude and support for improving its safety culture 

  • Describe the importance of setting key performance indicators and targets, together with performance monitoring and review for continual improvement in safety and health management. 

As part of the assessment, Learners will be required to complete a personal action plan. These will include deciding on 3 actions that they commit to taking based upon the learning from the course. Commitments should be appropriate for the level of responsibility the participant has in their organisation.

Please note: All course materials and certificates will be sent via post. There will be an additional charge if booking outside of the UK. We will contact you with the delivery charge once booking has been made. 

The IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors training course is a great starting point for leaders who want to learn about health and safety. After completing the course, many business leaders progress to studying courses such as: