Leadership and Management Training
Managing with Purpose, Leading with Impact
Our training is designed to equip senior school leaders with the confidence and expertise to navigate today’s complex educational challenges. Our engaging eLearning and practical instructor led sessions support safer, smarter decision-making, empowering leaders to uphold high standards and foster a secure, well-managed school environment.
Accident Investigation Training
​Course delivery: Instructor led
Course duration: 3 hrs
Number of delegates: Up to 20
About this course: This course is suitable for anyone who may need to investigate an accident and any senior staff who will have duties in law under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
Key topics covered:
- Why we should Investigate Accidents
- Which Accidents or Incidents should we Investigate?
- How to Decide what Level of Investigation is Appropriate
- Selecting an Investigator
- What to Look For
- Conclusions: Causes and Root Causes
- How to Record
- Control Measures
- You are the Judge
- Useful Documents
- Question and Answer Session
Crisis Management Training
Course delivery: Instructor led delivery​
Course duration: Two separate half day sessions and can be tailored to a clients requirements
Number of delegates: Up to 25
About this course: This course is suitable for trustees, governors and all senior staff who will have duties in law under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
Key topics covered: Session 1 covers Planning and Policy and is delivered by specialist crisis management professionals. The workshop contains interactive presentations and relevant case study analysis that help focus minds on the ‘what if’. Following this, a supportive session on the devising a Crisis Management Plan. This can be tailored to suit the client but may include the management of different types of crisis, leadership in a crisis, how to manage social media, facing the press and other stakeholder communications and business continuity including the continuity of education.
Session 2 is a simulation exercise, testing the effectiveness and responsiveness of the plan that has been devised and that you have trained staff on. Based upon a realistic and evolving incident scenario tailored for your school, this session creates a realistic situation in which you will practice breaking bad news to a parent over the telephone, responding to social media storms, drafting a press holding statement, writing an incident page for your own school website and conducting a telephone interview with a journalist. This creates the opportunity to fine-tune various communication skills and techniques in a safe, controlled environment.
Higher Duty of Care Training
Delivery Method: Instructor Led
Course Duration: The course lasts 1/2 day (with a full-day option which covers specific topics at the client's request in fine detail)
Number of delegates: Up to 50
About this course: This course is suitable for trustees, governors, trust executives and all senior school/academy staff who have duties in law under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in educational establishments.
Key topics covered:
- Law and Guidance
- HSE ACOPS
- Liability, including Personal liability
- New and forthcoming legislation and recent case updates
- Organisation, Personnel and training
- Staff and student issues
- Managing Contractors and the CDM Regulations
- Risk Assessment and Management
- Safeguarding and Security
- First Aid and Medicines
- Fire and Premises Issues
- Curriculum Safety
- Transport
- School Trips
- Accident Reporting and Investigation
- Emergency Planning Cases
- You are the Judge! and practical examples for your School including a Q and A
Risk Assessment Training
Course Delivery: Instructor Led
Course Duration: 1/2 day
Number Of Delegates: Up to 20
About this course: This course is suitable for all staff who have to produce risk assessments or manage teams or departments in which risks display themselves, so risk measures need to be put in place. The course content can be tailored to suit the School /Trust.
Key topics covered:
- Law and Guidance
- HSE ACOPS
- What is a risk?
- What is a hazard?
- Risk Management Principles
- What is a risk assessment?
- Control measures and their hierarchy
- The format of risk assessments
- Dynamic Risk Assessments
- Competency and Training
- Curriculum Safety
- Premises Safety
- School Trips
- Cases - You are the judge!
- Practical examples for your school/Trust
- Q&A
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Sexual Harassment Duties for Managers and Employers under the 2024 Worker Protection Act
Delivery Method: eTraining
Course Duration: 40 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course is aimed at employers, senior leaders and managers in head office teams, who need to understand their duties under the 2024 Worker Protection Act regarding creating a zero-tolerance workplace regarding sexual harassment.
​Key topics covered:
- Employer Responsibilities Under the Worker Protection Act (2024)
- The definition of Sexual Harassment;
- The impact of Sexual Harassment;
- The reasonable steps employers must take;
- How a School should deal with sexual harassment allegations
- The barriers to reporting;
- How staff should be supported to raise a grievance;
- Who is liable in cases of sexual harassment;
- What to allow someone to do if they are unhappy with the workplace’s policy; and
- The difference between 'banter' and harassment.
Investigating Accidents
Course delivery: eTraining
Course duration: 35-40 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: Investigating accidents and near misses on site forms an important part of health and safety management. This module is applicable to any staff member tasked with elements of accident investigation and covers the right and wrong questions to ask, interviewing victims and witnesses, gathering evidence, identifying root causes and creating SMART action plans.​
Key topics covered:
- The legal duty to investigate
- When to investigate and in what depth
- Lessons to learn from investigations
- Selecting an appropriate investigator or investigating team
- Investigation procedure
- Analysing investigation findings
- Implementing a SMART action plan
Data Protection (GDPR) Training for Managers and Senior Leaders
Course delivery: Instructor led (face to face or Teams)​
Course duration: 2.5 hrs
Number of delegates: Unlimited
About this course: This course is suitable for senior leaders, data managers, governors and any other senior staff who have duties in managing data law under the Data Protection Act 2018.
Key topics covered:
- The law and guidance on what is GDPR and the duties and roles within it
- Your Data Protection Officer
- Policies and privacy notices
- Rights Under GDPR
- Lawful Processing and further Processing
- Consent including child consent
- Auditing (Data Mapping)
- Common GDPR Issues including GDPR issues at your organisation
- Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA's)
- Documentation, record keeping and data retention schedules
- Breaches and Security
- Subject Access Requests and Freedom of Information Requests
IOSH Managing Safely
Course delivery: Instructor led
Course duration: 2 days
Number of delegates: Up to 12
About this course: This formal, national qualification for managers and supervisors is designed to ensure managers understand the actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their organisation.​
​ Handsam’s delivery of this two-day course is tailored specifically to the education sector.
Key topics covered:
- Introducing Managing Safely
​ - Assessing risk - defining and demystifying the phrases ‘risk’, ‘hazard’ and ‘risk assessment’ including completion of mock risk assessments.
​ - Controlling risks - how to reduce risks through the use of suitable and sufficient control measures
​ - Understanding your responsibilities - Reviewing the demands of the law and how the legal system works. It also introduces the concept of a health and safety management system
​ - Identifying hazards - including physical & verbal abuse, stress, noise, slips, trips & falls, working at height, use of computers and manual handling
​ - Investigating accidents and incidents - including why accidents should be investigated, why things go wrong, and how to carry out an investigation when they do
​ - Measuring performance - how checking performance can help to improve health and safety
Safer Recruitment
Course Delivery: eTraining
Course Duration: 35 minutes
Number Of Delegates: 1+
About this course: Safer recruitment is a set of principles and practices that an organisation or employer should apply to ensure that their employees and volunteers are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
Key topics covered:
- What safer recruitment is
- Who is at risk of abuse
- What the law says about safer recruitment
- The recruitment process, including job advertisements and relevant application forms
- Processes for shortlisted candidates, including self-disclosure forms, conducting online searches and obtaining references
- The interview process
- Vetting checks, including DBS checks
- Processes for other staff, such as supply staff, contractors and trainees
- Processes for volunteers, visitors and governors
"All the schools were extremly happy.“
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Joe - Estates Compliance and Health and Safety Officer