# The Duty of Care: Leading When Your People Are in Danger

> For chief executives, chairs, people and security heads of businesses with staff, contractors and drivers in unstable places. Account for everyone, decide…

- Provider: BrandsClass Executive Academy (a Brands Nexus Network Limited company)
- Format: online lessons, then a live virtual boardroom simulation with AI board members, scored against a published rubric
- Duration: about 240 minutes (9 lessons)
- Access: 365 days from the day you start
- Price: ₦298,000 (NGN)
- Certificate: a certificate that anyone can verify online. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.
- Level: Boardroom
- Who it is for: Chief executives, chairs, people, security, operations and legal heads of businesses with staff, contractors or travellers in unstable or high-risk places.
- Page: https://brandsclass.com/courses/the-duty-of-care-leading-when-your-people-are-in-danger/
- Last updated: 2026-10-20

## What you will learn

- Understand what a duty of care means for staff, contractors, visitors and families
- Account for every person quickly and keep one source of truth
- Assess threats with evidence and set triggers before you need them
- Decide who shelters, relocates or evacuates, fairly and without discrimination
- Communicate honestly and humanely with families, staff, clients and the public
- Manage security providers, authorities, insurers and legal exposure
- Care for people afterwards and build a duty-of-care system that works

## Lessons

1. Anatomy of a duty-of-care crisis
2. The first hours: command and accounting for people
3. Information and threat assessment
4. Protect, shelter or move
5. Families and communications
6. Security providers, authorities and the use of force
7. Insurance, legal duty and money
8. Hard decisions
9. Recovery, care and a duty-of-care system

## How to enrol

Open https://brandsclass.com/courses/the-duty-of-care-leading-when-your-people-are-in-danger/ to create a free account and buy a seat.