Introduction
The interactive, thought-provoking content shows how leaders can influence health and safety performance and culture through their actions and behaviours.
Who should take the Health and Safety Leadership Excellence qualification?
This qualification is for senior business leaders or anyone who aspires to become one in the future. It highlights the moral, legal and financial reasons for good health and safety leadership. It offers guidance on the key areas to focus on to make a difference and how leaders can become better advocates and influencers in relation to health and safety.
What will I be able to do after taking this qualification?
- Positively influence health and safety performance and culture in your workplace
- Apply the Health and Safety Executive’s model for effective health and safety leadership
- Reflect on your own health and safety leadership style and what can influence your decision making and subsequent behaviours
- Understand the link between effective health and safety leadership and reaching cultural safety excellence
Course Content
The qualification covers the following topics:
- What health and safety leadership means
- The moral, legal and financial reasons for good health and safety leadership
- The links between health and safety leadership and culture
- What the different leadership styles are
- How human failures can impact performance and culture
- The HSE’s model of effective health and safety leadership
- How leaders can build effective relationships with the workforce
Who Should attend?
This qualification is for senior business leaders or anyone who aspires to this role in the future.
Assessment
The assessment will be in the form of reflective statements. These will show how the learner’s knowledge, skills and behaviours may have both positive and negative effects on health and safety performance in their organisation. Learners will also need to make a commitment to a leadership intervention that will improve health and safety management within their sphere of workplace influence.
Certification:
Upon successful completion of the course and assessment, candidates will be awarded NEBOSH HSE certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence from NEBOSH (UK)