In recent years, USHA has partnered with various training providers to create specialised programmes aimed at enhancing the skills of Health and Safety professionals. Below is a selection of training courses commissioned or developed in collaboration with USHA and delivered to members in 2022-24.
Over the period of 2025-2026, USHA is committed to subsidising two additional sessions of the Health and Safety for Senior Leaders courses each year, allowing colleagues to experience the course and determine its suitability for their institution.
In addition, a further subsidised training on the subject of successful negotiations/negotiating skills will be delivered in late 2024 to early 2025.
In 2023 USHA partnered with Loughborough Business School (LBS) to tailor the existing Senior Leadership Apprenticeship – MSc Strategic Leadership exclusively for Health and Safety professionals.
The 2024 enrolment is now closed. The enrolment for 2025 cohort will start in late spring/summer 2025.
Find out more on our dedicated Apprenticeship page.
Provider: Loughborough Business School
Leraning outcomes include:
The provisional dates are
6th November Loughborough
12th November London
19th November Scotland
Contact us to book your place at a reduced rate.
USHA endorses Safety Leadership Training provided by Eversheds Sutherland and Human Applications
More detials on the providers as well as the selection process, training overview and contact details can be found on a dedicated USHA Ltd Preferred Leadership Training Providers page.
To express interest in the re-running of past programmes, please contact trainig providers directly.
A minimum of 6 delegates and a maximum of 18 are required for the course. Approx, charge is £1780 per day plus travel, subsistence, and VAT (Sept 2024).
LBS does not offer these courses on a regular basis, please contact USHA via [email protected] to express your interest.
The course has been offered as a half-day session for the most senior leaders.
The aim is to enhance understanding to support better leadership of health, safety and wellbeing (HSW).
The objectives are:
To describe the main accountabilities of the senior leadership team
To explain how those accountabilities might be discharged
To describe how local organisation and arrangements for HSW works
To describe the senior leadership team’s role in the organisation and arrangements
To plan to provide more effective leadership and have a better understanding of:
Why people do the things they do? What good looks like? How to get better?
Provider: Human Applications
This is a one-day course for HSW professionals who have attended the HSW Leadership course and wish to develop the skill to develop one or more modules of the USHA course.
Provider: Human Applications
The aim of the course is to all HSW professionals to develop additional skills to enable them to communicate about risks with non-safety specialist stakeholders.
Participants will be able to:
Define any risk using a consistent model
Recognise their stakeholders and the attention that should be paid to each
Select appropriate methods of information-gathering
Write into a framework for reports
Make appropriate recommendations to reduce risk
This one-day cProvider: Loughborough Business Schoolourse begins with a high-level view of financing within the higher education sector, but then focuses on how OSH professionals contribute to managing both financial and non-financial transactions within their operations. This one-day course is designed to equip and enable participants to improve their understanding of the need to manage finances effectively, by understanding how the use of effective tools such as budgets and performance monitoring supports improved organisational performance. Through the presentation of case studies, interactive exercises and the application of a range of practical tools, participants will be able to adopt a range of financial techniques to support the effective management of their area of operations.
Participants will learn to:
– Understand how the key financial statements (balance sheet, income statement and cash flow) work in an organisation.
– Develop skills in budgetary development and control.
– Devise methods to assess performance and how performance indicators support outcomes.
– Understand key financial jargon used in the sector and be able to use it more effectively in collaboration with other internal stakeholders, such as finance departments.
Provider: Loughborough Business School
Outline of the Day
Session 1
Introduction to the day and the learning outcomes, including instruction to a powerful approach to setting goals for personal development: ‘Reflective Goal Setting’ (RGS)
What do we mean by self-awareness, and how can gaining greater self-insight enhance our working relationships and help us be our authentic selves at work. Including fun activities to measure and explore self-awareness in the group.
Session 2
Introduction to the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Covering such topics as what kind of personality type do I have, and how does this affect the contribution I make at work, the world in general, and my working relationships? What do I want others to value in me? What are my strengths and my development needs? How does it affect my mindset and professionalism? What kind of variety do we have in our group? How might this impact how we work with others in our roles and in our sector?
Session 3
Continued exploration of our personality type using the MBTI framework for understanding individual differences between people and how that affects: communication, information gathering, decision making, negotiating, self-management, empathy, teamworking, and leadership etc.
Session 4
Putting together findings from insights gained throughout the day, to generate themes and ideas from which to set our goals for personal development using RGS.
Preparation for the day
In advance delegates will be required to complete an MBTI personality test and a short document for them to reflect on their usual approach to setting personal development goals.
After completing the day, participants will:
– Understand and value the importance of self-awareness in enhancing and developing working relationships.
– Consider the impact of their personality on how they communicate, make decisions, empathise, lead, and work in teams with others at work.
– Develop skills in Reflective Goal Setting and self-coaching for personal development in crucial work relationship-related behaviours.
– Utilise the knowledge gained, to set a powerful personal development goal and devise plans to successfully implement that goal.
Provider: Loughborough Business School
The course will cover 4 steps of effective stakeholder management: identification, analysis, strategy, management.
Specifically:
Provider: Loughborough Business School
This 1-day strategic management short course is aligned with the IOSH Blueprint and is designed specifically for University Health and Safety professionals to bring an understanding and awareness of strategy:
Using practical relevant examples, cases and exercises, strategy specialists from Loughborough University, public sector experts and Health and Safety leaders, will support Health and Safety professionals to learn and develop strategic skills and techniques.
There are over 4000 safety practitioners working within the higher education sector together with academic and research staff with safety management or teaching responsibility. Membership is for Institutions, Further Education Colleges and affiliated organisations.