Health and Safety Governance

Course description

In this online module you will learn good practice health and safety governance, and directors’ duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

By the end of the module you will have a confident grasp of directors' duty to exercise due diligence about health and safety.

Duration

One to two hours

Available for six months

Content covered

• The importance of health and safety governance
• Case studies
• The health, wellbeing and safety governance landscape
• Legislation
• Duties and due diligence
• Liabilities and penalties
• The role of the director in establishing and monitoring best practice
• Framework of director responsibilities
• Worker engagement.

Who should attend

Directors and senior executives wanting to:

• refresh their knowledge of best practice in health and safety
• familiarise themselves with the legislation.

Already taking this course?

If you purchased this course it can be accessed via learn@iod. If you are unable to log in click forgot username or password, then to find your account enter your username (this is your email address) and click search to get a reset email sent to you.

Please contact our learning team by emailing governancedevelopment@iod.org.nz or calling 0800 846 369 if you have any further questions.

Additional information

Pay by credit card when you register for the online module. We accept all major credit cards.

We will send you a username and password for the module to the email address you give when you register.

These modules can be completed using Firefox, Google Chrome, or Safari internet browsers on a desktop computer, tablet or other mobile smart devices. Internet Explorer is not supported.