Employers have long managed noise, machinery and chemicals. Two newer groups of hazards now sit beside them and are often handled badly because they fall between departments. Climate-related hazards, such as extreme heat, flooding, poor air quality and changing disease patterns, are treated as an environment or facilities problem. Psychosocial hazards, such as chronic overload, bullying, violence, isolation and fear of job loss, are treated as an HR problem. For the worker, they are all conditions of the same job.

The Planning and Implementation of Climate-Related and Psychosocial Workplace Risk Training Course is built to join them up. Over ten days participants learn to identify hazards, assess who is most exposed, select controls using the hierarchy of control, and put them into practice through policies, procedures, training and monitoring. The first part covers the science and the legal and management foundations, then examines climate hazards in depth for outdoor, industrial and office settings. The second part does the same for psychosocial risks, with emphasis on organisation of work, leadership behaviour and support systems.

The final days integrate these streams with occupational health and safety and environmental management systems, emergency preparedness and just transition thinking. Participants apply every technique to a real workplace through a running project, so the programme ends with a costed implementation plan that has already been challenged by peers and facilitators.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain how climate change alters occupational hazards and exposure.
• Assess heat stress and design work-rest, hydration and acclimatisation controls.
• Plan responses to flooding, storms, air pollution and wildfire smoke.
• Identify psychosocial hazards through surveys, interviews and data review.
• Apply recognised frameworks to control workload, conflict, harassment and violence risks.
• Design mental health support, return-to-work and referral pathways.
• Consult workers and managers effectively and build leadership capability.
• Integrate both risk areas into ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 aligned management systems.

The course is designed for professionals who protect workers' health, safety and wellbeing, including:

• Occupational health and safety managers and officers
• Human resource and employee wellbeing managers
• Occupational physicians, nurses and counsellors
• Sustainability, environment and climate adaptation officers
• Facilities, estates and site managers
• Construction, agriculture, mining and manufacturing supervisors
• Labour inspectors and trade union safety representatives
• Humanitarian and NGO staff care and security advisers
• Risk managers and internal auditors

Participants leave the course with:

• A combined climate and psychosocial risk register for their workplace.
• A heat stress management procedure with trigger levels and actions.
• A psychosocial risk survey plan and a method for analysing results.
• A draft policy on harassment, violence and mental health support.
• An emergency and continuity plan addressing extreme weather events.
• An implementation roadmap with responsibilities, budget and performance indicators.

The ten days are organised around one running project and a steady rhythm of analysis, practice and review:

• Each participant builds the register, procedures and plan for their own workplace
• Heat stress calculations and risk survey analysis in practical labs
• Case studies from agriculture, construction, health care and humanitarian operations
• Tabletop simulations of extreme weather and workplace violence incidents
• Structured peer panels that test the final implementation plans

Participants who attend the ten days and submit their implementation plan are awarded a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.

The certificate recognises sustained professional development in an emerging area of workplace health and safety practice.