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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Learning options:
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Online Learning
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Virtual Learning
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Classroom Learning
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On-Site Learning
Benefits to the learner and the organisation
Benefits to learners
Benefits to the organisation:
- 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
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Units
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Module 1
The Moral, Legal and Financial Case
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Module 2
Plan - How to successfully plan for a health and safety upgrade
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Module 3
Do - How to implement the health and safety system and have it improve business
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Module 4
Check - How to monitor health and safety performance
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Module 5
Act - How to improve health and safety performance
Assessments
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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
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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
Classroom
Virtual
22/08/2025
£250.00
Cardiff - Holiday Inn City Centre
22/08/2025
£325.00
Virtual
04/09/2025
£250.00
London - Broadway House
04/09/2025
£325.00
Virtual
17/10/2025
£250.00
Bristol - Engineers' House
17/10/2025
£325.00
Warrington - High Legh Golf Club
06/11/2025
£325.00
Virtual
06/11/2025
£250.00
Heathrow - Thistle Hotel Terminal 5
06/11/2025
£325.00
Virtual
04/12/2025
£250.00
Virtual
15/01/2026
£250.00
Wakefield - Holiday Inn Leeds M1 Jct 40
15/01/2026
£325.00
Cardiff - Holiday Inn City Centre
06/02/2026
£325.00
Virtual
06/02/2026
£250.00
Virtual
12/03/2026
£250.00
London - Broadway House
12/03/2026
£325.00
Bristol - Engineers' House
10/04/2026
£325.00
Virtual
10/04/2026
£250.00
Virtual
14/05/2026
£250.00
Warrington - High Legh Golf Club
14/05/2026
£325.00
Heathrow - Thistle Hotel Terminal 5
12/06/2026
£325.00
Virtual
12/06/2026
£250.00
Online
01/01/2050
£195.00
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
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.
Need more information? Visit our Exam Hub:
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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.
Need more information? Visit our Exam Hub:
Read more
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.
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
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.
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.
For a full rundown of all things IOSH, take a look at our blog.
Workplace Training
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IOSH Safety for Executives and Directors for Your Workforce
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: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
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