A positive health & safety culture

Prime minister David Cameron seems determined to make health & safety a political football. Early in 2012 he publically spoke out against the “health & safety” monster, and said he was determined to “kill off the health and safety culture for good”.

The prime minister says he is “waging war against the excessive health and safety culture that has become an albatross around the neck of British businesses”, and is going on the offensive against “speculative health and safety chancers and those who leech off good businesses”.  

Cameron’s remarks appear to contradict Employment Minister Chris Grayling’s introduction to a key report on health & safety published by the Department of Work and Pensions last November. Grayling said: “Sensible and proportionate health and safety regulation can support economic growth by maintaining a healthy and productive workforce. However, to be effective, and to provide genuine protection for workers and the public, regulation needs to be easy to understand, administer and enforce. The Government is committed to simplifying health and safety legislation to ease the burden on business and encourage growth.  

This seminar will focus on how to adopt a sensible risk management approach in the workplace, and will look at what the government is really likely to do to health & safety laws and regulations.  

It will look at:  

1.  Health & safety culture – what it is and why it’s a good thing  
2.  How businesses can establish sensible a risk management culture 
3.  The insurance claims culture, and the kind of claims that are made  
4.  How to introduce health & safety excellence from the shop or office floor to the boardroom  
5.  Practical ways of reducing workplace risks at minimal cost; for example by getting rid of water fire extinguishers in offices and replacing them with CO2 extinguishers, which are half the cost and easier and safer to use.  

This session is aimed at managers who are thinking or worried about workplace safety. It is appropriate for general managers, HR professionals, board members, and senior staff with health & safety as an “add-on” responsibility. 

Certificates of Attendance (for CPD purposes) can be issued to delegates on the day, if required.  Please let us know that you need a certificate on arrival and we will arrange for it to be issued at the end of the session.