Workplaces are being reshaped by a changing climate and by growing awareness of mental health at work. Employers must now think about heat exposure, flood and storm disruption and air quality in the same breath as workload, harassment and psychological safety. Organisations that wait for incidents to force a response typically face absenteeism, injury claims, staff turnover and reputational harm.

The Strategy and Innovation in Climate-Related and Psychosocial Workplace Risk Training Course gives safety, health and people leaders a framework for planning ahead. It begins with how climate hazards affect different jobs and how psychosocial hazards arise from work design and management. Participants learn to identify, assess and rank both groups of risks, use data from incident records, absence statistics and staff surveys, and align controls with ISO 45001 and the guidance in ISO 45003. The programme then turns to strategy: setting priorities, building a business case, choosing between engineering, organisational and individual controls, and testing innovative measures through small pilots.

Teaching relies on workplace scenarios from agriculture, construction, healthcare, hospitality and office environments. Participants practise facilitation, risk workshops and stakeholder presentations, and finish with a draft strategy and implementation roadmap suited to their organisation.

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

• Explain how climate change creates new and intensified hazards for different types of work.
• Recognise the main psychosocial hazards and their effects on health and performance.
• Carry out integrated risk assessments covering heat, weather events and psychosocial factors.
• Use incident, absence and survey data to prioritise risks.
• Apply the hierarchy of controls to climate and psychosocial risks.
• Relate their approach to ISO 45001 and ISO 45003 requirements.
• Develop and test innovative interventions through small, measured pilots.
• Build a costed strategy and implementation plan that secures management support.

The course is designed for people who shape workplace safety, health and wellbeing strategy, including:

• HSE managers and occupational safety officers
• Occupational health doctors and nurses
• HR directors and employee wellbeing officers
• Enterprise risk managers and business continuity planners
• Site managers in construction, agriculture, mining and manufacturing
• Trade union and worker representatives on safety committees
• Employee assistance and counselling professionals
• Public sector and NGO managers responsible for field staff

Participants take away:

• An integrated risk register covering climate-related and psychosocial hazards.
• A heat stress and extreme weather response protocol adapted to their workplace.
• A short psychosocial risk survey plan with guidance on analysing results.
• A business case outline that links the strategy to cost savings and productivity.
• A pilot design template for testing new controls and measuring impact.
• A twelve-month roadmap with owners, resources and indicators.

The programme blends technical input with strategic planning through:

• Scenario work set in agriculture, construction, health and office settings
• Hazard mapping and risk workshops using the participants' own workplaces
• Case studies on heat illness events and workplace stress claims
• Pilot design clinics to test new ideas safely
• Presentation of a draft strategy for structured feedback

On attending all sessions and presenting a draft workplace strategy, participants receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy.