Overview
This course explains how frontline supervisors and managers can influence behaviours, and how human failures (errors and violations) can contribute to accidents, ill-health or incidents. It also demonstrates how adopting a human factors approach to managing health and safety-related risk will contribute to safe and healthy workplaces and activities. This course emphasises the crucial role of supervisors and managers in managing safe and healthy work and how facilitating respectful, open and engaging two-way communication creates an environment where unsafe acts are addressed and positive health and safety behaviours are consistently reinforced.
Who needs this qualification?
This course is suitable for those in managerial or supervisory roles within the construction industry.
Why is Behavioural Safety Management for Construction training important?
Research shows that people’s behaviour plays an important role in the number of work-related ill-health, dangerous occurrences, major injuries, and fatalities. The ultimate benefit of effective behavioural safety approaches to construction work is that they can help reduce unsafe acts and promote safe and healthy behaviours. Frontline behavioural safety leadership can positively impact people’s safety behaviour, and it has the potential to reduce incidents. Not only does this increase safety at work, but it will also reduce the cost of absence due to workplace injury.
A key advantage of implementing a behavioural safety model based on the management of human factors is that it encourages multi-level engagement, proactive participation and collaboration, whereby everyone contributes to the health and safety management process. Managers and supervisors support an organisation’s strategic aims by delivering safe and healthy work. Identifying and addressing unsafe behaviours and conditions and proactively seeking opportunities to reinforce positive behaviours is a vital aspect of a manager’s and supervisory role.
Course content
Where beneficial, in-house courses can be contextualised to support an organisation’s culture and approach to health and safety management.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:
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Health and safety training refers to programs designed to equip individuals with the knowledge, skills, and awareness necessary to promote and maintain safe and healthy environments in various settings, such as workplaces, schools, or community spaces. These training programs aim to educate participants about potential hazards, risks, and preventive measures to minimise accidents, injuries, illnesses, and other adverse health outcomes.
You can read more information about health and safety in our Ultimate Guide to Health and Safety.
Health and safety training is essential for creating a safe, healthy, and productive work environment for employees, while also ensuring compliance with regulations and protecting the organisation’s interests. Below are some of the reasons (but not limited to) why health and safety training is important:
You can read more information about health and safety in our Ultimate Guide to Health and Safety.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) provide the following information:
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 requires you to provide whatever information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of your employees. This is expanded by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, which identify situations where health and safety training is particularly important, e.g. when people start work, on exposure to new or increased risks and where existing skills may have become rusty or need updating. Like many employers, you may not be in a position to provide this training on your own, in which case you will need competent help. If possible, you should appoint one or more of your employees.
HSE – Health and safety training (hse.gov.uk)
You can read more information about health and safety in our Ultimate Guide to Health and Safety.
Yes. Many of our health and safety course can be delivered live online or face-to-face.
There are a small number of courses that are unable to be delivered live online due to the practical elements involved e.g. Ladder restraint training.
Take a look at our Health and Safety courses, where each course states which delivery formats are available.
You can read more information about health and safety in our Ultimate Guide to Health and Safety.
Yes. Following successful completion any of our health and safety courses, you will receive a certificate.
You can read more information about health and safety in our Ultimate Guide to Health and Safety.
Health and safety courses can vary in expiry periods, however, you can use our requalification checker to see what course is needed and when you need to attend.
You can read more information about health and safety in our Ultimate Guide to Health and Safety.
