Health & Safety Leadership In Construction (The Legal Requirements)

The Building Safety Group (BSG), in partnership with solicitor, Richard Voke (Temple Bright), has launched a new training program which is exclusive for BSG members: ‘Health & Safety Leadership in Construction: The Legal Requirements’.

The half-day course considers the statutory requirements for construction health and safety, how it is enforced, and your obligations as a business operating in the building industry.

Whilst every precaution should be taken to avoid health and safety incidents, accidents are an unfortunate and inevitable fact of life. An HSE investigation following a serious incident has the potential to become very stressful and difficult to manage.

There is often little time to think properly about the incident being investigated and how best to formulate the company’s responses.

BSG’s course ‘Health & Safety Leadership in Construction: The Legal Requirements’, delivered by Richard Voke, will demonstrate how companies must seek to ensure that their policies and systems are designed to quickly and effectively respond; in order to minimise any potential likelihood of repetition and to properly manage any potential consequences for affected parties.

During the session, Richard Voke, who specialises in Health & Safety law for construction companies, will address:

• A brief instruction to Health & Safety law management
• Senior Management liability and leadership in the construction sector
• What should you do if an HSE Inspector calls?
• How to respond and investigate a serious accident
• How to prepare your business to deal with an HSE / EA investigation including
• The stages on an investigation process including: ‘Evidence gathering’, ‘Interview under caution’ and ‘Notification of Contravention / FFI / Prosecution
• A brief guide to Health & safety sentencing, hearings, and trials
• Proactive strategies to reduce the chances of an HSE investigation in the first instance
• Reactive strategies to ensure the best possible outcome of an investigation
• Further development of the consequences and how liability works supported with illustrative case studies examining: HSE prosecution, corporate and individual manslaughter, fines and prison sentences