Summary

This one-day intensive 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.

Qualifications you gain

The certificate is valid for 5 years, to remain certified you need to retake the course prior to the expiry date.

Entry Requirements

Examples of relevant roles (not exhaustive)

 Managing Directors

 Directors

 Non-Executive Director

 Senior Quantity Surveyor (QS)

 Senior/Principal Engineer

 Senior Project Manager

Overview

The course aims to help:

 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

 Recognise the need to appoint competent health and safety assistance and the limitations of such an appointment

 Identify the basic tools to introduce a proactive health and safety culture into an organisation and the benefits of this approach.

Prerequisites

Delegates must be able to demonstrate the following:

Either previously completed a CITB Director’s Role for Health & 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

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

And Completion of the pre-course eLearning. Successful completion of this component generates a digital certificate, a copy of which must be sent to the Approved Training Organisation (ATO) at least 24 hours before the commencement of the main course and may be subject to audit. The ATO must ensure copies of certificates are retained for audit purposes and that the course results form is updated accordingly. https://ecourses.citb.co.uk/learningprograms/viewprogram/id,17

Directors Role for Health and Safety