Essential Health & Safety Law for Directors and Managers

The Essential Health & Safety Law for Directors and Managers course is designed to provide senior leaders with a comprehensive understanding of their legal responsibilities and obligations regarding health and safety in the workplace. This course aims to equip directors and managers with the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and to foster a culture of safety within their organizations.

On completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognise their legal obligations.
• Identify actions which need to be taken by their organisations to comply with statutory duties.
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CONTENT:

• Policies, Procedures, Company Systems and Organisation
• Safe Systems of Work and Best Working Practice
• Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
• Other Relevant Acts / Regulations and Approved Codes of Practice
• Maintaining Records and Monitoring Performance
• Reviewing and Improving Performance
• Emergency plans and procedures in establishments.
• Plans to secure and guard vital installations.
• Security lighting and its role in the protection of the establishment.
• Security of documents, information and communications.
• The emergency plan in the establishment and the powers and responsibilities of its leaders.
• Method of implementation of turnover tables.
• The outer perimeter of the facility secure method.
• Identify the most likely risk areas.
• They include how to report and act quickly to advertise an emergency.
• Security supervision.
• The role of security and the effective role of the head of security.
• Scientific assets of the Department of Security Operations.
• Procedures to be implemented by all concerned in the implementation of the contingency plan.
• Develop a telecommunications plan with a responsible person to give information to the competent authorities.
• The establishment of the security and guarding apparatus in vital installations.
• The basic functions of security managers in the establishment.
• Security standards governing facility security procedures Emergency times.
• Methods of securing facilities in the face of terrorism and sabotage in times of emergency.
• Develop an evacuation plan and escape from the sites.
• Legislation governing the evacuation plan and escape from the sites.
• A design evacuation plan and escape from the sites.
• Structural design for safety.
• Design and spatial planning of evacuation and escape.
• Current designs for the routes and evacuation plan and rescue and future escape of all sites.
• Directions and routes of evacuation and escape.
• The signals used when escaping and their design.
• Philosophy of Escape from Windows.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.