Are your early-stage development decisions setting your projects up for success or storing up risks for construction and operations?

Do you have the tools to influence safer outcomes across multiple stakeholders, joint ventures, and supply chains?

What if safety could be your competitive advantage, not a constraint?

If you frequently ask these questions, learning to address them in one go might just be the answer you’ve been looking for.

The IOSH Strategic Safety for Renewable Project Developers programme equips project developers, managers, risk professionals, legal specialists, procurement teams, and contractors with the skills to:

• Make informed, proactive development decisions that enhance project outcomes.
• Align safety, cost, and efficiency from concept to execution.
• Minimise lifecycle risks and drive more predictable, successful projects.
• Strengthen stakeholder collaboration to streamline communication and execution.

Delivered by expert trainers, we focus on embedding learning into practice and everyday decision-making. Live presentations, group work, video assignments, and much more… we ensure you are engaged and learning through active problem-solving.

• Understand how early-stage decisions impact asset integrity, people’s safety, and overall project success.
• Identify key health and safety regulations, employer obligations, and the impact of construction safety law on renewable project development.
• Recognise different risk types, implement front-end risk mitigation approaches, and control lifecycle safety hazards.
• Understand stakeholder motivations, contracting strategies, and challenges in joint venture partnerships.
• Improve communication, integrate safety into project specifications, and leverage KPIs to monitor development activities effectively.

The IOSH Strategic Safety for Renewable Project Developers

programme consists of powerful modules covering:

1. The Role of Safety and Health in the Modern Energy Business
   • The extent to which conflicting business priorities affect decision-making in development
   • Who the stakeholders are, what their motivations are, and the impacts
   • Health and safety within the context of project development
   • What the holistic approach to managing risk means in practice
   • The development process and key decisions which give rise to lifecycle risks
2. Legal Framework for Renewable Energy Projects
   • The law in the context of national governance frameworks
   • Health and safety legislation relevant to the development phase
   • What general health and safety legal duties apply to the development phase
   • The sources of offences and penalties
   • Why is construction safety law essential for renewable project developers
   • Common contract types and their alignment with construction safety law
   • The application of the law in real-world situations
3. Safety as an Emergent Property of Project Development Decisions
   • Discuss how safety, like asset performance, are outcomes of development decisions
   • Define and explain the meaning of various health and safety terms
   • Differentiate between different types of risks and their impacts
   • Key risk management strategies across the project lifecycle
   • The importance of front-end development activities in the identification and management of lifecycle risk
   • Common development phase hazards
4. Managing Development Activities for Safer Outcomes
   • The multifaceted roles and responsibilities of developers in driving safe contractor performance across project lifecycle phases
   • How the complexities of joint ventures impact risk management
   • The impact of different technical specification types on project risk management, and how they shape developers’ roles, responsibilities, and work processes
   • How procurement practices influence safe project outcomes and supply chain performance
   • Project management strategies that align development and construction goals
   • The role of lifecycle information management in renewable energy projects, and implement strategies for seamless information flow
   • Leading indicators to monitor safe outcomes in renewable energy project

This unique learning experience is designed for early- and late-stage developers of onshore and offshore wind, solar, and battery storage projects.

• Project developers, project managers and engineers overseeing planning and execution
• Risk and safety professionals supporting development functions
• Legal and compliance specialists navigating safety regulations
• Procurement teams engaging with short- and long-term contractors.

24-hour blended learning

Course schedule

Course Video Explainer

March 2026

All times shown are UK times. Attendance and participation in all live sessions and training activities are mandatory

• Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Module 1: The role of safety and health in the context of a modern energy business
• Monday, 9 March 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Module 2 – Legal framework Part 1: H&S law to project development
• Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Part 2: Diving into construction safety legal principles
• Friday, 13 March 2026, 09:00 – 10:30 – Part 3: Contracting strategies
• Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Module 3 – Safety as an emergent property of project development decision. Part 1: Development activities as risk sources
• Thursday, 19 March 2026, 09:00 – 12:00 – Part 2: Group work – Assessing the impact of front-end development activities
• Monday, 23 March 2026, 09:00 – 10:30 – Part 3: Feedback – Assessing the impact of front-end development activities
• Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Part 4: Group work – Key personal safety issues and immediate occupational safety risk
• Friday, 27 March, 09:00 – 10:30 – Part 5: Feedback – Key personal safety issues and immediate occupational safety risk
• Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Module 4 – Managing development activities. Part 1: Managing outsourced service providers and contractors
• Thursday, 2 April, 09:00 – 12:00 – Part 2: Procurement, safety and project management
• Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 09:00 – 10:30 – Part 3: Lifecycle information and performance management

November 2026

All times shown are UK times. Attendance and participation in all live sessions and training activities are mandatory

• Friday, 6 November 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Module 1: The role of safety and health in context of a modern energy business
• Tuesday, 10 November 2026, 13:00 – 15:00 – Module 2 – Legal framework. Part 1: H&S law to project development
• Friday, 13 November 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Part 2: Diving into construction safety legal principles
• Tuesday, 17 November 2026, 09:00 – 10:30 – Part 3: Contracting strategies
• Friday, 20 November 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Module 3 – Safety as an emergent property of project development decision. Part 1: Development activities as risk sources
• Tuesday, 24 November 2026, 09:00 – 12:00 – Part 2: Group work – Assessing the impact of front-end development activities
• Thursday, 26 November 2026, 13:00 – 14:30 – Part 3: Feedback – Assessing the impact of front-end development activities
• Wednesday, 2 December 2026, 09:00 – 11:00 – Part 4: Group work – Key personal safety issues and immediate occupational safety risk
• Friday, 4 December, 09:00 – 10:30 – Part 5: Feedback – Key personal safety issues and immediate occupational safety risk
• Wednesday, 9 December 2026, 13:00 – 15:00 – Module 4 – Managing development activities. Part 1: Managing outsourced service providers and contractors
• Friday, 11 December 09:00 – 12:00 – Part 2: Procurement, safety and project management
• Tuesday, 15 December 2026, 09:00 – 10:30 – Part 3: Lifecycle information and performance management