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IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors

The IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors course is essential for those in corporate positions looking to display exemplary understanding in health and safety.

Business leaders have responsibility for determining and implementing effective safety and health management and monitoring its success, so its essential that they understand how to implement a risk management strategy.

This course will help leaders fully understand their personal and corporate liabilities. It is primed with critical knowledge to help better understand surrounding health and safety, helping to incorporate a progressive positive risk management attitude. 

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Duration

1 day

Entry Requirements

We believe in making learning accessible to everyone. This course is designed for individuals occupying a senior leadership position.

Learning options:

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  • Online  Icon

    Online Learning

    Flexible, accessible, self-paced digital learning.


    • Complete the course around your schedule
    • Anytime access on any device
    • Test your own progress
    • Exams included

  • Virtual  Icon

    Virtual Learning

    Live, interactive online training with a tutor.


    • A classroom experience from home or work
    • Printed and digital notes
    • Free access to online materials
    • Exams included

  • Classroom  Icon

    Classroom Learning

    In-person, tutor-led learning in a classroom setting.


    • Study with fellow professionals
    • Lunch and refreshments included
    • Physical course notes and workbooks
    • Exams included

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    On-Site Learning

    Train together in a collaborative, face-to-face or virtual classroom setting with off-the-shelf or customised courses


    • Perfect balance of flexibility and cost effectiveness
    • Choose from Classroom or Virtual learning
    • Designated Account Manager
    • Exclusive corporate rates

Benefits to the learner and the organisation

Benefits to learners
  • Understand your responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace
  • Recognise the importance of integrating health and safety objectives and strategies
  • Enable benchmarking of your performance and identify good practice from similar businesses
  • Shape your health and safety vision and identify how to achieve it

Benefits to the organisation:
  • Create a good health and safety culture, reduce accident rates, absences and sick leave
  • Ensure health and safety is considered in strategic planning and decision-making
  • Health and safety management is driven through all levels of the company
  • Improve reputation among supplier, clients and partners

 
 
Astutis Learning Campus 

Take a look at our course video to discover how we deliver the latest interactive online learning!

Units

  • Module 1

    The Moral, Legal and Financial Case

  • Module 2

    Plan - How to successfully plan for a health and safety upgrade

  • Module 3

    Do - How to implement the health and safety system and have it improve business

  • Module 4

    Check - How to monitor health and safety performance

  • Module 5

    Act - How to improve health and safety performance

Assessments

  • The course is assessed through completion of a statement of personal commitment and action plan that is filled in once all the modules have been completed. An IOSH certified tutor will review the commitment and action plan within 5-working days.

    Certificate
    Upon successful completion of the course, learners will be issued with an official IOSH digital certificate.

Course Length

  • Online learning - Recommended study time 4-hours with an optional 3-hours additional reading. 6-months access to the course.

    Virtual Classroom - One day course delivered through webinar software. The course is a blend of live sessions delivered by our IOSH certified trainers, supported by our digital learning platform

    Onsite Classroom training is delivered by an IOSH certified trainers at a location of your choice.
Virtual Learning
Classroom Learning
Wakefield: Holiday Inn, Pontefract, WF5 9BE
15/01/2026
Virtual
15/01/2026
Bristol: Engineers House, Clifton, BS8 3NB
15/01/2026
Warrington: High Legh Golf Club, Knutsford, WA16 0WA
06/02/2026
Virtual
06/02/2026
Cardiff: Holiday Inn, CF10 1XD
06/02/2026
Heathrow: Thistle Hotel, UB7 0EQ
12/02/2026
London: Broadway House, Westminster, SW1H 9NQ
12/03/2026
Virtual
12/03/2026
Wakefield: Holiday Inn, Pontefract, WF5 9BE
09/04/2026
Bristol: Engineers House, Clifton, BS8 3NB
10/04/2026
Virtual
10/04/2026
Bristol: Engineers House, Clifton, BS8 3NB
10/04/2026
Virtual
14/05/2026
Cardiff: Holiday Inn, CF10 1XD
14/05/2026
Warrington: High Legh Golf Club, Knutsford, WA16 0WA
14/05/2026
Warrington: High Legh Golf Club, Knutsford, WA16 0WA
14/05/2026
Heathrow: Thistle Hotel, UB7 0EQ
21/05/2026
Virtual
12/06/2026
Heathrow: Thistle Hotel, UB7 0EQ
12/06/2026
London: Broadway House, Westminster, SW1H 9NQ
12/06/2026
Bristol: Engineers House, Clifton, BS8 3NB
16/07/2026
Virtual
16/07/2026
Virtual
21/08/2026
Virtual
04/09/2026
London: Broadway House, Westminster, SW1H 9NQ
04/09/2026
Bristol: Engineers House, Clifton, BS8 3NB
15/10/2026
Wakefield: Holiday Inn, Pontefract, WF5 9BE
15/10/2026
Virtual
15/10/2026
Heathrow: Thistle Hotel, UB7 0EQ
22/10/2026
Cardiff: Holiday Inn, CF10 1XD
05/11/2026
Virtual
05/11/2026
Warrington: High Legh Golf Club, Knutsford, WA16 0WA
12/11/2026
London: Broadway House, Westminster, SW1H 9NQ
03/12/2026
Virtual
03/12/2026
Virtual
21/01/2027
Virtual
12/02/2027
Virtual
11/03/2027
Virtual
16/04/2027
Virtual
21/05/2027
Virtual
17/06/2027
Virtual
16/07/2027
Virtual
12/08/2027
Virtual
17/09/2027
Virtual
14/10/2027
Virtual
11/11/2027
Virtual
10/12/2027
There are no explicit entry requirements but it is a given that learners occupy a director or executive position in their business. 
Module 1
The Moral, Legal and Financial Case Why positive and progressive attitudes towards health and safety can radically improve your business.

Learners will work through the following sections:
  • Moral arguments
  • Financial arguments
  • Reputational arguments
  • Reporting system failures
  • Legal requirements
  • Important Legislation
  • The cost of failure 
Module 2
Plan - How to successfully plan for a health and safety upgrade A focus on the PLAN phase of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.
Learners will work through the following sections:
  • The health and safety policy
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Priorities, plans and targets
  • How to identify and manage risks
  • Emergency planning
  • Necessary resources
  • The importance of consulting with employees
Module 3
Do - How to implement the health and safety system and have it improve business A focus on the DO phase of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.
Learners will work through the following sections
  • The Do stage
  • Top-down communication
  • Engaging the workforce
  • The importance of high quality training
  • Developing standards of procurement
  • Control
Module 4
Check - How to monitor health and safety performance A focus on the CHECK phase of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.
Learners will work through the following sections:
  • The check stage
  • Auditing
  • Monitoring
  • Reactive measurement
  • Proactive measurement
  • Where to obtain information
  • Ensuring key outcomes
Module 5
Act - How to improve health and safety performance A focus on the ACT phase of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.
Learners will work through the following sections:
  • The Act stage
  • Strong and visible leadership
  • Commitment to social responsibility
  • Celebrating good performance
  • Corporate governance
  • Continuous improvement 

IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors Syllabus Guides

IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors Fact Sheet

IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors Online Course Fact Sheet

At the end of this course you will write a personal commitment and action plan relating to the learning on the course; you must write up to three actions that you commit to taking in your workplace, appropriate to your level of responsibility.

Learners have two attempts of submitting the commitment and action plan. 

Upon successful completion you will receive your digital version of your official IOSH approved certificate.


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IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors is an essential health and safety training course, designed for anyone with operational or strategic accountability.
If you hold a position of senior management or have overall operational or strategic accountability for health and safety in a company, then this course is designed specifically for you.
This IOSH course is suitable for senior management, senior leaders, executives, directors and even CEOs who have a strategic responsibility for establishing a safe and healthy working culture in an organisation in any sector and of any size.
  • Astutis are an IOSH approved Training partner and are listed on the official IOSH training provider website.
  • Our online courses are available to study anytime and at a pace that fits in with your career and availability. 
  • Online courses have an immediate start and are accessible on any device.
  • Online and virtual courses are less costly than a classroom course, especially if you have to stay overnight.
  • No hidden charges, the IOSH certificate is included in the price
  • Astutis offers discounts on volume purchases.
  • Our courses are designed by Learning and Development professionals.
There are no formal entry requirements for the IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors course. However, to take the most away from the course, it is strongly recommended that learners are currently in an executive or director role, or plan on transitioning into an executive or director role.
The IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors course can amplify the standards and the reputation of your business by embedding an industry-leading health and safety understanding at the very top of your organisation. The course educates on how to successfully allow that understanding to trickle down into the fabric of your organisation, ensuring your staff and organisation are positively influenced.

Our blog outlines all of our IOSH courses and which are best suited to you. Click here to read our blog
The course is assessed by three actionable commitments intended to improve the learner’s own performance and the risk management strategy of the business.

For more information about the assessment, please visit our exam hub.
IOSH stands for Institution of Occupational Safety and Health; the chartered body for health and safety professionals. 

For a full rundown of all things IOSH, take a look at our blog.
Workplace Training

IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors for Your Workforce

Develop your people for a better organisation.

By applying the knowledge and skills gained from the IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors course, you will be able to contribute to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.

Our training has been tried and tested by 100,000 health and safety professionals. We offer a range of learning options, including virtual classroom, online and on-site classroom courses delivered at premises of your choice on a day of your choice.

Benefits Of Staff Training At Your Organisation

Cost and time saving benefits for larger number of staff.
Your own dedicated account manager to organise all aspects of your training.
Relevant training for your staff can be tailored to company requests.
Choice and convenience of training delivery options to suit your staff.

Whats The Best Way For My Staff To Learn?

Dependent on staff availability, location, budget and your company needs, choose from the options:

IOSH MS Online - Our interactive and multimedia rich courses for staff to fit in around their commitments

Online - Our interactive and multimedia rich courses for staff to fit in around their commitments

Classroom - Expert tutor-led delivery, hosted in a professional training environment across 6-sites within the UK. Alternatively Classroom training can be delivered On-Site at your premises for multiple learners.

Virtual - The Virtual Learning Academy is the most modern approach to delivering live-online training without the need to travel

Workplace Training
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Independent and practical consultancy support provided by our Chartered Health and Safety, and Environmental practitioners.

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