This course is intended for company 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.

Delegates will be provided with 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.

SSG offer this course over one day as a classroom or virtual course.

On completion of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Recognise the moral, economic and legal costs and 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 holder and the significance of their cooperation, communication and coordination of health and safety projects

• Recognise the need to appoint competent health and safety assistance and 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

Successful completion of the course requires delegates to pass the trainer review and the two-part exam paper. Delegates will then be awarded with a CITB renewable certificate valid for five years.