Health and Safety Executive

Leading health and safety at work

Guidance booklets

Leadership guidance for all directors, governors, trustees, officers and their equivalents in the private, public and third sectors.

It applies to organisations of all sizes; small businesses and major hazard industries.

Four-point agenda

1. Plan

Boards should set the direction for effective health and safety management.

 

3. Monitor

Monitoring and reporting are vital parts of a health and safety culture.

 

2. Deliver

Introduce management systems and practices that ensure risks are dealt with sensibly, responsibly and proportionately

4. Review

A formal boardroom review of health and safety performance is essential.

Leadership in health and safety - the essential role of the Board - 18 March 2009

A speech to the Worshipful Company of Company Secretaries and Administrators in which Judith Hackitt, HSE Chair, explores what real leadership actually looks like in practice when it is done properly and well. And also makes the case for why Boardroom attention to and scrutiny of health and safety is just as important for business success as Financial Reporting, or any other aspect of Corporate Governance.

Read the full speech


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Updated 10.11.11