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Health and Safety for Managers eLearning
Online health and safety training for managers: what you are personally responsible for, what you must be able to evidence, and where individual liability actually bites.
Who it is for
Who this health and safety for managers course is for
Managers carry health and safety duties whether or not anyone has explained them. This course sets out what those duties are in practical terms, and what a manager is expected to be able to show.
- Line managers and supervisors
- Newly promoted team leaders
- Department and site managers
- Small business owners
- Directors without a safety background
- Anyone with staff reporting to them
Course content
What the health and safety for managers course covers
Eight short modules on the manager's specific role: risk assessment, competence, supervision, records and what happens when something goes wrong.
The legal framework
The duties that apply to the organisation, to managers and to employees.
Your responsibilities
What a manager is expected to do, day to day and on paper.
Risk assessment
Producing, reviewing and acting on assessments for your area.
Competence and training
Deciding what training people need, and evidencing that they had it.
Supervision and monitoring
Checking that controls are used, and dealing with those who do not.
Incidents
Response, investigation, reporting and cooperation with an inspector.
Records
What has to exist, and what an inspector or a claimant will ask to see.
Culture
Why leadership behaviour predicts safety performance better than policy does
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Explain the duties that apply to you as a manager
- Produce and review risk assessments for your area
- Decide what training your people need and evidence it
- Supervise and monitor the use of controls
- Respond correctly to an incident in your area
- Maintain the records that will be asked for
- Recognise the effect of your own behaviour on safety culture
Your legal duty
The law behind health and safety for managers training
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 places duties on employers and, separately, on employees to take reasonable care and co-operate. Managers sit in both roles at once. They carry out the employer's duties while holding an employee's. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 add the requirements to assess risk, appoint competent people and provide training.
Individual liability is real. Where an offence by an organisation is committed with the consent or connivance of a manager or director, or is attributable to neglect on their part, that individual can be prosecuted personally. This course is awareness training rather than legal advice.
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2, 3, 7 and 37
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - assessment, competence and training
- Individual liability can attach to managers and directors
- Subject-specific regulations apply to the work your team actually does
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
Health and Safety for Managers training for a team
A management team that has all had the same training applies standards consistently. That's what an inspector notices first.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Managers who own health and safety as a significant part of their role usually need a NEBOSH qualification rather than awareness training. See NEBOSH courses →
Health and Safety for Managers eLearning: common questions
Yes. Where an organisational offence is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to neglect on the part of, a manager or director, that individual can face prosecution.
It is awareness training covering the manager's role. Someone who owns health and safety as a significant part of their job usually needs a formal qualification such as NEBOSH.
Risk assessments, training records, inspection and monitoring records, and incident records for your area. The course covers what an inspector or a claimant's solicitor typically asks for.
That is a supervision and performance issue as well as a safety one, and the course covers how to handle it rather than ignoring it.
It covers the manager's duties, which apply to directors too. Board-level responsibilities are broader and generally warrant separate director-level training.
About 30 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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