NEW COURSE - Corporate Manslaughter - The New Act and the Practical Implications for Strategic Safety Management
Programme Aims, Objectives And Outline Content
The programme aims to equip senior executives with an understanding of the liabilities created by the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 together with the practical implications for the strategic safety management processes in their organisation.
Objectives
On successful completion of the programme delegates will be able to:
- Understand the liabilities created by the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 in the context of other key health and safety legal obligations and the practical implications in terms of:
· Their role and responsibilities with respect to health and safety at work.
· The importance of integrating health and safety objectives into other key business performance objectives and good corporate governance.
· The need to incorporate health and safety issues into business planning and decision-making.
· The need to develop and implement an effective health and safety management system, including performance monitoring and continual improvement
· The importance of developing a positive safety culture to reduce unsafe behaviour and the key role that senior executives play in that process.
Outline Content
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and other relevant criminal and civil law
- Explanation of the liabilities created by the Act together with a summary of some other key corporate and personal responsibilities for health and safety under criminal and civil law
- law exercise
- Business risk management and safety
- Corporate governance, risk management and loss control
- The Turnbull Report
- HSC/IOD Directors guidelines
- The costs of accidents and incidents at work
- Accident causation
- Accident causation models
- Organisational factors in accident causation
- Safety management systems
- Management system models – HSG65, BS8800, OHSAS18001
- Summary of key practical elements
- The role of risk assessment
- Performance monitoring and target setting
- Training and competence
- Management systems gap analysis exercise
- Safety culture
- Concept and importance
- The links between culture and behaviour
- Developing a positive safety culture
- Safety culture SWOT analysis exercise
Luton 18th Nov 2008 £215 + vat
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