How much do you know to keep yourself and others safe at work?
Course Contents
- Roles and responsibilities of employers and employees
- Health and safety laws
- Risk assessments and risk control hierarchy
- Identifying and controlling risks from common workplace hazards, including:
- - Slips, Trips and Falls
- - Manual Handling
- - Fire
- - Working from Height
- - Electricity
- - Hazardous Substances
- - Workplace conditions
- - Ergonomics
- - Equipment
- - Noise and vibration
- - Transport and vehicles
- - Violence
- - Smoking, alcohol and drugs
- - Stress
- Procedures for responding to accidents and incidents
- Recording incidents, accidents and ill health
Benefits of this course
- In 2023/24, 1.7 million people suffered from a work-related illness
- 600,000 sustained a non-fatal injury
- 138 People lost their lives
- 776,000 Workers suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety
- The estimated cost of injuries and ill health last year was £21.6 billion
- 33.7 million working days, or 140,417 working years, were lost due to work-related illnesses and injuries
- This QA Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) course helps employees gain an understanding of health and safety issues and their own role within that
- It is an employer's duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees and other people who might be affected by their business. This includes providing sufficient information, instruction and training of employees, so they can work in a way that does not put themselves or others at risk
This course is run in a fun, engaging and interactive way. As one candidate stated 'Made what could have been a very dry experience into a very interesting day' - see this testimonial and others here.
To take part in this course virtually, please go here.
For more information, see this page on our website, and/or contact us.
