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IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors

Does your role cover legal and strategic responsibilities?

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IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors offers CEOs, Directors and Senior Management operating at policy and/or strategic level, a full understanding of their health & safety responsibilities – including the moral, legal and financial benefits of a proactive approach to safety, health and risk management. This course will give those operating at this level, a full understanding of both their personal and corporate liabilities.

Course Key Facts
Learning Method In-company
Units/Modules 5 Modules
Assessments Multiple Choice Test
Duration 1 Day

Course overview


IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors is a new qualification for people with strategic responsibilities in companies in all sectors and sizes. It offers the knowledge and skills to integrate health and safety strategy into both business and management systems and procedures.

Based on the HSE/IoD guidance to ensure health and safety management is an integral part of effective management and leadership, IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors also covers Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide legislation and the implications for Senior Managers and Directors.

Topics covered


  1. The moral, legal and financial case
  2. Plan – planning for health and safety
  3. Do – implementing health and safety
  4. Check – monitoring health and safety performance
  5. Act – improving health and safety performance

Click here to view the full IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors syllabus.

Assessment and certification


The assessment and certification process for this course involves an action plan or personal commitment relating to the learning. Those undertaking the certification must commit to (in writing) up to three actions to take into the workplace appropriate to your level of responsibility.

On (demonstrable) successful completion of your action plan, you will receive your IOSH approved certificate.

Tailored courses


Astutis can tailor this course for a group of your executives and deliver the training at your premises to pass on savings. We can further include your policy, procedures and organisational specifics so that your training is both relevant to your business or industry.

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