NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence

Overview

Unit HSL1: Health and Safety for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to gain a core understanding of how their behaviours and responsibilities directly impact on health and safety management.

Learning

• Upon completion, participants will:
• Recognise the importance of health and safety leadership and its moral, legal, and financial implications.
• Understand how human factors influence decision
• making and safety culture.
• Apply HSE’s five leadership values to promote a positive safety culture.
• Reflect on their leadership style and identify ways to improve their influence on health and safety performance.
• Commit to a leadership intervention aimed at improving health and safety management in their area of influence.

Other

Key topics covered:
– The business benefits of health and safety leadership (including the moral, legal and financial arguments).
– The effects of good health and safety leadership of safety culture.
– Human failures.
– The HSE’s ‘Make it happen’ model.
– Decision making processes including mental short cuts and perception biases.
– Leadership styles.
– The HSE’s five leadership values.
– Building relationships with the workforce.

Assessment

Quantitative assessment (For example: exam, quiz, written assignments, or a risk assessment)