What is this course about?

This one-day interactive course has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a strategic health and safety role in the built environment. Its aim is to recognise directors’ duties of care, and the implications of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.

Is this course right for me?

The course is designed for directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role. It will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety. Interactive group exercises allow delegates to share and discuss their health and safety responsibilities in an open forum.

What are the course aims?

The course aims to help directors to recognise and understand:

• The moral, economic and legal costs and implications of decisions that may make their business liable

• The importance of managing health and safety risks strategically

• The consequences of failing to manage health and safety effectively, including the need for competent duty holders and effective cooperation, communication, and coordination on projects

• The need to appoint competent health and safety assistance, and the limitations of this

• How to identify the basic tools to introduce a proactive health and safety culture into an organisation, and the benefits of this approach.

Are there any entry requirements?

This course has been developed for directors and senior managers active in a strategic health and safety role in the built environment, from any organisational size in construction, civil engineering or allied trades. Therefore, this should be considered before enrolling delegates on to this course.

This course is suitable for those with experience in roles (not exhaustive) such as:

• Financial/Operations director.

• Senior quantity surveyor (QS).

• Private QS.

• Principal designer.

• Senior/principal engineer.

• Company secretary.

• Contracts manager.

• Senior project manager.

• Non-executive director.

Delegates must be able to have either previously completed a CITB DHRS course, OR have a 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 in the context of a director’s role and responsibilities:

• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

• Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969.

• Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.

• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

It is also recommended that delegates complete the pre-course eLearning, Director's Role For Health & Safety, which provides context for the first and second learning outcomes (Leadership and worker engagement and Health and safety law).

Where can I take this course?

This course can be taken in a classroom or via remote delivery - whatever suits you better.

How long is the certificate valid for?

Certification for this course is valid for five years. To remain certified in this area, you will need to retake the course before the expiry date.

Further information

• Find out how to get approved to deliver this course

• Learn more about the Scheme Rules