Health and safety professionals often know where training needs to improve. The harder part can be convincing HR, senior leaders and budget holders to make it a priority. Workplace injury and ill health cost Britain an estimated £22.9 billion a year, while 40.1 million working days were lost in 2024/25. The costs borne directly by an organisation can extend far beyond insurance.
This IOSH webinar, in association with learning provider VinciWorks, explored how health and safety professionals can build a stronger case for investment in training and engage the HR teams and senior decision-makers whose support they need.
Our panel looked at how to demonstrate the value of H&S in terms that resonate across the business: reducing incidents and absence, limiting operational disruption, strengthening risk management and showing where preventative investment can deliver measurable returns.
The session covered:
- How to turn health and safety risks into a persuasive business case for HR and senior leadership
- What decision-makers need to hear when deciding whether to invest in better training
- How to quantify the wider costs of incidents, absence, claims, management time and operational disruption
- Using data, risk assessments, incidents and near misses to demonstrate where training needs to improve
- What effective training looks like, and how organisations can demonstrate that training is changing behaviour rather than simply recording completion
- Practical approaches for gaining internal support when budgets and competing priorities make investment difficult
