Executives are accountable for the health of the people who deliver their strategy, yet climate change and mental ill health are often handled as separate, secondary matters. Heatwaves reduce productivity and cause serious illness; flooding closes sites; prolonged stress drives absenteeism, errors and resignations. Regulators, insurers, lenders and employees increasingly expect leadership to treat these as core enterprise risks.

The programme connects the two risk streams. It opens with the strategic and legal case, then moves into climate-related workplace hazards such as thermal stress, extreme weather events, air quality and changing disease patterns. A second block turns to psychosocial hazards, including excessive workload, poor control over work, harassment, violence, remote and shift work and organisational change. Participants learn how to embed both into the management system, assign accountability, set risk appetite, allocate budgets and use data to see problems early. The closing sessions concentrate on crisis leadership, recovery support, assurance and external disclosure.

Delivery is discussion-led and written for time-pressed leaders. Scenario briefings, dashboards and a board paper exercise ensure that participants leave with decisions they can action rather than abstract principles.

Upon completing the programme, participants will be able to:

• Explain executive and board duties for climate-related and psychosocial workplace risk.
• Identify the main heat, weather and environmental hazards affecting their workforce.
• Recognise psychosocial hazards arising from work design, leadership and culture.
• Apply ISO 45001 and ISO 45003 principles within an enterprise risk framework.
• Set risk appetite, targets and accountabilities for worker health and wellbeing.
• Interpret dashboards of leading and lagging indicators and challenge management reports.
• Lead crisis response, recovery and return-to-work arrangements.

The programme addresses leaders who set direction and hold management to account, including:

• Chief executives, managing directors and general managers
• Board and risk committee members
• Heads of health, safety and environment
• Human resource directors and wellbeing leads
• Chief risk officers and sustainability executives
• Operations directors in construction, mining, agriculture and manufacturing
• Hospital and school administrators
• Senior public sector managers and labour officials

Executives leave the programme with:

• A one-page risk appetite statement covering heat, weather and psychosocial exposure.
• A board paper outline for reporting worker health risks.
• A set of leading indicators for a leadership dashboard.
• A heat stress action trigger table for outdoor and indoor work.
• A checklist for reviewing psychosocial risk assessments.
• A crisis and recovery plan framework for severe weather or traumatic incidents.

Programme design respects the limited time of senior leaders and focuses on decisions. It uses:

• Concise executive briefings with sector examples
• Scenario exercises on a heatwave shutdown and a staff trauma event
• Review of sample dashboards and risk registers
• Facilitated peer exchange among leaders from different industries
• A board paper drafting exercise with facilitator feedback

On satisfactory attendance and completion of the scenario and board paper exercises, each participant receives a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy.