QA Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) (Virtual)

QA Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) (Virtual)

This Health and Safety in the Workplace course is run in a fun and engaging way, and is in-person, virtually or as a private course

By Pochat Training

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Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

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.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS COURSE IS RUN OVER THREE X 2.5 HOUR SESSIONS, OVER 2 DAYS.

To take part in this course in-person in our training centre in Chesterfield, please go here.

For more information, see this page on our website, and/or contact us.

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Pochat Training

We run fun, engaging, accredited courses in First Aid, Mental Health and Wellbeing, citizenAid, Food Safety and Nutrition, Fire Safety, Health and Safety, Manual Handling, Social Care, Education and Digital, Functional and Computer Skills.

What makes our training courses fun and engaging? Just have a look at a few of the things we use to make it so.

What would you prefer?

• A boring list - or a mystery to solve❔ • To be asked questions - or play a game of Snakes and Ladders❔• Be told the answer - or suss it out for yourself❔• Simply being told something - or find out the criteria for yourself❔• Looking at a picture on PowerPoint - or hold a relevant object in your hand❔• Going through a PowerPoint list - or have fun with flags❔• Work with a dressed manikin - or a naked doll (maybe not answer this one )

We have a wide variety of courses on offer, and are always happy to run private courses and to create bespoke ones as well!