NEBOSH – Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence

Destinatari

• This qualification is for senior busi­ness leaders or anyone who aspires to this role in the future.
• It will help you become a better health and safety advocate and influencer by highlighting the key areas to focus on to make a diffe­rence.
• It is relevant for all business leaders working in any sector, anywhere in the world.

Obiettivi didattici

After attending the course, the learner will be able to:

• Identify the business benefits of health and safety leadership (including the moral, legal and financial arguments
• Outline the effects of good health and safety leadership of safety culture
• Identify the Human failures
• Understand the HSE’s ‘Make it happen’ model
• Describe the decision making processes including mental short cuts and perception biases
• Identify Leadership styles
• Identify the HSE’s five leadership values

Analisi fabbisogno formativo

The qualification focuses on how leadership behaviours can impact on the health and safety culture of an organisation and it guides leaders to become better advocates for health and safety within their respective organisations.

The cost to the economy of injuries and ill-health is enormous – a cost that is often hidden, but is estimated to be in the order of billions of pounds annually in the UK alone.

Therefore, having leaders in your organisation who inspire others to drive health and safety throughout a business not only protects workers but also contributes towards profitability and compliance.

Prerequisiti

Very good oral and written english (B2 level).

Contenuto del corso

Element 1: The foundations of health and safety leadership

• The reasons for and benefits of health and safety leadership exce­llence, the importance of an agreed health and safety vision and the business benefits excellent health and safety leadership brings;
• The moral, legal and financial rea­sons for good health and safety leadership;
• How leaders can gain assurance that health and safety is being ma­naged effectively;
• How good leadership can positively influence health and safety culture.

Element 2: Human failure and decision making

• Understand how human failure can impact on health and safety culture and how the ‘Make it happen’ model can help to change behaviours;
• Recognise how mental short cuts, perception biases, habits and belie­fs can influence the decision making process.

Element 3: Leadership

• The meaning of transformational, authentic, resonant and transactio­nal leadership styles;
• The application of the five values and supporting foundations of the HSE’s health and safety leadership model;
• How relationships with the workfor­ce can be built by effective leader­ship communication.