Health and Safety in the Workplace Training course
Description
This course has been designed to provide delegates with a general understanding of
Health and Safety issues in the workplace. This course provides delegates with an
understanding of current health and safety rules and regulations and explains the
responsibilities of both the employer and employees. Delegates will also learn how
to deal with reporting of any accidents or incidents, should they occur. This in
house course is aimed at learners in a variety of work environments and will
develop awareness of health and safety within an organisation.
The course content of this course which is equivalent to a level 2 qualification
provides learners with essential knowledge and understanding of health and safety
in the workplace under UK health and safety legislation and is also an ideal platform
to higher level training or career development.
Duration
The minimum classroom contact time of 6 hours should be delivered over a
minimum of half a day. The course can be spread over a maximum of 3 weeks,
ensuring that each session is a minimum of two hours. The class ratio for this
qualification is a maximum of 16 learners to 1 Trainer/Assessor.
Course content
- The law
- Penalties and enforcement
- Employer’s responsibilities
- Employee’s responsibilities
- Ergonomics and human factors
- The cost of poor Health and Safety
- The benefits of good Health and Safety
- Health and Safety training
- Communicating Health and Safety
- Hazards and risks
- Risk assessments
- Hierarchy of control
- Accidents
- Environmental factors
- Human factors
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Electricity
- Fire
- Manual handling
- Hazardous substances
- Display screen equipment
- Workplace safety signs
- First Aid
- Accident and incident reporting
- RIDDOR