Top management has an essential role in ensuring the safety of employees in the workplace. As a part of building safer workplaces, managers should have adequate training in health and safety and understand their respective roles and responsibilities. Managers and similar personnel in high-ranking positions will typically be loaded with various other tasks. This often leads to overlooking their responsibilities in health and safety.
However, managers play a primary role in ensuring a safety culture in the organisation. This blog will explore the key reasons why managers should take health and safety training.