Health & Safety - Risk Management for the Construction Industry

Introduction

Many companies and their individuals that work in construction may not be fully familiar with their Health and Safety duties and the way in which the changes to UK Health & Safety legislation might impact them.

This highly engaging and interactive virtual classroom seminar will highlight the key risks for contractors, surveyors, suppliers, designers, manufacturers and installers - and discuss how to limit liability and exposure to the risk of prosecution.

You will also get the chance to participate in an ‘interview under caution’ by an enforcing authority and the workshop session will allow you to discuss and analyse how best to deal with an investigation into a Health and Safety incident.

This is a ‘must attend’ for anyone involved in the construction industry who wishes to know more about their statutory Health and Safety obligations and how to put themselves and the companies that they work for in the best possible position to resist scrutiny from an enforcing authority.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

Part 1

• Why Manage Health and Safety in Construction?
• HSE statistics
• Business impacts / impact on contractual arrangements
• Occupational health issues
• Impact of COVID-19
• Health and Safety Responsibilities
• Do you have obligations as an individual?
• What’s the worst that can happen - penalties?
• Duty Holder Status under the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 - a practical view?
• The Hackitt Review/The Building Safety Bill 2020
• The 2016 Health & Safety Sentencing Guidelines
• Case studies - fines since the guidelines were issued
• Key issues in the construction industry - working at height/asbestos/manual handling / HAVS and noise
• Corporate manslaughter - has anything changed?

Part 2

• ‘Interview Under Caution’ exercise - watch how individuals deal with being interviewed under caution by an enforcing authority and then discuss the issues that were raised during the interview and how you can best protect yourselves and your companies from the risk of prosecution
• Additional interview scenarios - practical session
• Practical legal tips to reduce exposure to the risk of prosecution
• Conclusion

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.