Health and Safety training is the foundation of any organisation’s compliance requirements, designed to keep your staff and those around them. healthy and safe at work.
There are 12 courses to choose from in this category, use the tabs below to find out more.
There are a number of reasons why first aid is so important, such as encouraging general safety, preventing casualties’ conditions from worsening and, ultimately, saving lives. Ideally, everyone would have a basic knowledge of what first aid is, why it is important, how to apply it and what do to in an emergency. This course describes what first aid is and why it is important. It also provides sufficient information for the user to be able to apply first aid safely and effectively to different types of casualty.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe how to manage an injury incident
- Acknowledge employers’ responsibilities
- Understand UK first aid law and regulations
- Explain what first aid is and why it is important
- Understand what to do in a medical emergency
- Understand how to treat:
- Medical problems
- Effects of extreme heat and cold
- Bleeding
- Respiratory problems
- Unconscious casualties (breathing and not breathing)
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation who require a basic level understanding of First Aid.
Health and Safety at work is vital to keeping people safe at work and is part of the law. This course will enable you to create and maintain effective health and safety procedures within your workplace
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain why health and safety is a vital issue for both
employers and employees - Describe the key risks covered by health and safety law
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation who require a basic level understanding of Health & Safety at Work.
Employers are responsible in law for both fire prevention and the safe evacuation of employees in the event of a fire. This course will ensure that employees have the necessary knowledge to play their part in cooperating with their employer in the implementation of fire safety in the workplace.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Acknowledge employer and employee responsibilities
- Understand fire risk and flammable substances
- Describe fire risk and electricity
- Understand good housekeeping
- Understand fire doors
- Describe safe evacuation procedures
- Acknowledge action if trapped by a fire
- Understand how to deal with fire casualties
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation who require a base level understanding of Fire Prevention and Evacuation.
Employers are responsible in law for both fire prevention and the safe evacuation of employees in the event of a fire. This course will ensure that employees have the necessary knowledge to play their part in cooperating with their employer in the implementation of fire safety in the workplace.
Course Content:
- Employer and employee responsibilities
- Fire risk and flammable substances
- Fire risk and electricity
- Good housekeeping
- Fire doors
- Correct use of fire extinguishers
- Safe evacuation procedures
- Action if trapped by a fire
- Dealing with fire casualties
Audience
This course is suitable for new starters and existing workers requiring refresher training in Fire Safety and Evacuation.
Refresher Training
This course is also available as a 10-minute refresher enabling learners to:
- Understand employer and employee responsibilities
- Explain fire prevention
- Acknowledge fire extinguishers
- Describe evacuation procedures
- Understand how to deal with fire casualties
Our hands come into contact with many different surfaces and substances, many of them harbouring bacteria and viruses that transfer to our hands and from there either to other people or into our own body. This short video-based course takes the learner step-by-step through the key stages of handwashing and will enable effective hand washing in less than 30 seconds.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the key stages of hand washing
- Wash hands effectively in less than 30 seconds
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of Effective Handwashing.
The aim of the health and safety induction course is to enable your staff to recognize why it’s important to work safely, and to understand how to handle certain key workplace risks.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- State why health and safety is everyone’s responsibility
- Describe the key health and safety responsibilities of employers and employees
- Explain what is meant by:
- Risk
- Risk Assessment
- Health and safety standards
- Describe how to identify and control the following hazards and their associated risks:
- Explain the need to report injuries and near misses
- Violence and aggression at work
- Slips, trips and falls
- Manual handling
- Fire and evacuation
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of the subject.
Any person for whom responsibility for the health and safety of others forms part of their job description needs to know how to carry out a risk assessment. To be given this responsibility without complementary training is daunting for the individual and almost certain to lead to errors and omissions when risk controls are decided. Completion of this course will ensure that such an individual possesses the key skills and knowledge necessary to enable them to carry out an effective risk assessment.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand what a hazard is
- Describe the different types of workplace hazard
- State what a hidden hazard is - hazards that may not be immediately obvious
- Describe the risk assessment process
- Understand what risk is
- Acknowledge risk control
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of the subject.
Employers must carry out risk assessments in respect of all significant workplace hazards, and failure to comply with this legal requirement can result in prosecution and heavy penalties. Such prosecutions rarely arise from any wilful intention to break the law but rather through ignorance of the legal requirements, or a lack of understanding of how to carry out the assessments, how detailed they should be and how they should be recorded. Having completed this course the learner will feel competent and able to conduct risk assessments effectively and to appropriate standards.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain what first aid is and why it is important
- Understand UK first aid law and regulations
- Acknowledge employers’ responsibilities
- Describe how to manage an injury incident
- Understand how to treat:
- Unconscious casualties (breathing and not breathing)
- Respiratory problems
- Bleeding
- Effects of extreme heat and cold
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of the subject.
Repetitive Strain Injuries are, in this technological age, an increasing risk to workers and a challenge to organisational health and safety. Any RSI is painful and, in some cases, highly debilitating. It can lead to an inability to do certain jobs, or even work at all. For the individual, this can have physical, mental and financial costs, whilst for the organisation, it can mean the additional costs of staff cover, recruitment and job training.
This course is a first important step in educating staff on what causes RSI, and how to avoid it.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Undertake desktop stretches and animated exercises
- Understand how to prevent RSI
- State the symptoms of RSI
- Describe the causes of RSI
- Understand what RSI is
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of the subject.
More than one-third of all reportable ‘Over Three Day’ injuries and nearly 10% of ‘Major Injuries’ are associated with manual handling – the transporting or supporting of loads by hand or by bodily force. By taking a look at how manual handling risks arise and how to reduce or eliminate the likelihood of injury in different work environments, this course will help the learner to avoid joining future Health and Safety Executive injury statistics.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the law and manual handling
- Describe strategies for avoiding manual handling
- Reduce the risk of injury by assessing:
- The task
- The load
- The environment
- Personal capacity for load handling - Understand how the back works
- Describe safe lifting technique
- Understand how to handle awkward loads
- State the different risks in the office environment
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of the subject.
Refresher Training
This course is also available as a 10-minute refresher enabling learners to:
- Understand safe lifting technique
- Reduce the risk of injury by assessing:
- Personal capacity for load handling
- The environment
- The load
- The task
This course will enable you to identify the causes of slips, trips and falls and reduce the risk of accidents through good practice and preventative measures.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain why slips, trips and falls are an issue
- Understand how to look after your own safety
- Explain how to prevent slips, trips and falls with appropriate footwear, floor quality and good housekeeping
- Explain the causes of slips, trips and falls
- Avoid the legal requirements relating to slips, trips and falls
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of the subject.
Refresher Training
This course is also available as a 15-minute refresher enabling learners to:
- Understand how slips, trips and falls happen
- Describe safety precautions
- Explain how to prevent slips, trips and falls
Millions of people in the UK now use display screen equipment for a significant part of their work, and this rapid growth in the use of both fixed and mobile forms of DSE has been accompanied by increasing concerns about an associated range of health and safety problems. This course aims to enable learners to understand, in overview, the risks associated with DSE and the approaches to controlling them.
Key Learning Points
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the definition of ‘Display Screen Equipment
- Understand the nature and symptoms of the following conditions as they relate to DSE use:
- Upper Limb Disorders
- Visual disorders
- Stress and fatigue - State employer’s obligations in respect of DSE and workstation safety legislation
- Understand how risks associated with DSE are controlled
Audience
This course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base-level understanding of the subject.
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