HSE Management Training

Health, safety and environmental (HSE) management training offers managers or potential managers the training they might need in a variety of settings, including corporations, hospitals and other workplaces.

Function

HSE management training is designed to train managers to maintain safe workplaces for their employees and anyone else that might enter that workplace. HSE management training ensures that managers responsible for the safety of their workers and others are well-schooled in the safety issues at hand.

Training Considerations

HSE management training varies by industry and entity, but the central issues that are targeted include environmental hazards, appropriate methods and behaviors, equipment safety, emergency procedures, injury and illness treatment and general monitoring of an environment. Management training features both preventing problems and responding to them. It might also include environmental impact of the entity and working to reduce waste and energy consumption.

Training Providers

HSE management training is frequently offered in-house in a workplace. These training efforts target issues specific to these workplaces, focusing managers on the particular problems they must engage. However, there also are a range of HSE management training courses and seminars that target a more general audience.

References

• Hopkins Medicine: Department of Health, Safety and Environment
• Honeywell: HSE Training
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Health, Safety and Environmental Management and Sustainability