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Directors Role for Health & Safety (DRHS) - Remote Delivery
This one-day interactive course has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment with the aim of recognising directors’ duties of care and the implications of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.
Overview
The course will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety. Group exercises throughout the day will give delegates the opportunity to discuss their thoughts about health and safety and their responsibilities in an open forum.
The course aims to help directors to:
recognise the moral, economic and legal costs/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 coordination 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.
Entry requirements
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
Prerequisites
Delegates must be able to demonstrate the following:
Either previously completed a CITB Director’s Role for Health and Safety course
or
working knowledge of the following health and safety legislation with the anticipation that course content and the end of course assessment will require delegates to consider these legislations in context with a director’s role and responsibility:
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Certification
Certification for this course is valid for 5 years. To remain certified in this area, you will need to retake the course before the expiry date.
This one-day interactive course has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment with the aim of recognising directors’ duties of care and the implications of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.
Overview
The course will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety. Group exercises throughout the day will give delegates the opportunity to discuss their thoughts about health and safety and their responsibilities in an open forum.
The course aims to help directors to:
recognise the moral, economic and legal costs/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 coordination 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.
Entry requirements
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
Prerequisites
Delegates must be able to demonstrate the following:
Either previously completed a CITB Director’s Role for Health and Safety course
or
working knowledge of the following health and safety legislation with the anticipation that course content and the end of course assessment will require delegates to consider these legislations in context with a director’s role and responsibility:
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Certification
Certification for this course is valid for 5 years. To remain certified in this area, you will need to retake the course before the expiry date.