New BOHS Course - Communicating Risk

How to get your message across to those who need to hear it

About the course

The ability to communicate clearly about risk has never been more important to health and safety professionals. Whether you’re getting people to take action to manage significant risks to health and safety, or you’re reassuring an anxious public about less serious risks, effective communication is vital. This two-day course will give you a practical understanding of the tools and techniques for improving risk communication and will help you choose the right options for delivering risk communication strategies in a range of work environments. Aimed at professionals who need to influence managers or other professionals at all levels, the course has been developed jointly by the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (IEHF) and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). 

Programme

• Why communicate about risk?
• Views on risk communication
  • from Risk Outrage to ISO 31000
   
• XYZ – how every risk can be expressed in 30 words or fewer
• Identifying stakeholders and why that matters
• Risk communication (internal)
  • getting the message to your people
   
• Risk communication (external)
  • who, what and how to tell if it worked
   
• After the event
  • communication and contingency plans
   
• Communicating within the management chain
  • achieving your objectives
   

The course includes private study and a post-course project 

Who’ll benefit

• senior health and safety practitioners who want to improve the effectiveness of their communications with non-specialists, or with peers from different disciplines
• anyone responsible for planning and delivering communication about risk.

You’ll learn how to

• understand the models of risk and current ideas about risk
• describe risk in a consistent and transparent manner
• identify stakeholders who you’ll need to communicate with
• select an appropriate method of risk communication for different audiences
• understand the importance of evaluating the effectiveness of risk communication
• produce a risk communication plan for a target audience.

Duration

Two days, dates to be confirmed
Date:     19–20 January 2011 
               22–23 February 2011

Location

IOSH, The Grange, Highfield Drive, Wigston, Leicestershire, LE18 1NN

The course is delivered by Human Applications, one of the UK’s largest independent consultancy and training groups working all over the world in the field of risk management. http://www.humanapps.co.uk/index.htm  

How to book

Contact IOSH on +44 (0)116 257 3197 or e-mail zoe.whitehead@iosh.co.uk 

Price

£195 per delegate + VAT