Health and Safety Awareness in a Working Environment
This course is designed to give you an understanding of how Health and Safety affects you at work.
The course covers the legal requirements for Health and Safety at work, and explains your obligations for maintaining a safe workplace as well as your employer's responsibilities.
At the end of the course, you will understand the purpose and requirements of Health and Safety in the workplace, and will be able to maintain a safe environment in your own area of responsibility at work.
This is an online course and takes between 6-10 hours to complete.
You can log-in online and complete your course at your own pace, at any time.
Course Topics...
A Safe Working Environment
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This section introduces the reasons for ensuring a safe environment in the workplace, and looks at the potential benefits to businesses of maintaining good health and safety procedures.
An Accomplished Safety Culture
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This section examines the concept of a "safety culture" in the workplace, and looks at the benefits of developing this as well as the elements required to maintain a safety culture at work.
Compliance & Non-Compliance
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This section looks at businesses' responsibilities under health and safety legislation, and looks at the main requirements for health and safety as well as common non-compliance issues and their implications.
Efficient Health & Safety
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This section discusses ways in which companies can ensure that their health and safety procedures work as efficiently and effectively as possible, and the potential benefits of doing so.
A Structured Framework
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This section explains how health and safety management can be structured within a business, and how responsibilities for health and safety can be distributed amongst staff.
Roles and Responsibilities of Safety Staff
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This section introduces the different staff roles who might take responsibility for workplace health and safety, including Health and Safety Managers, Safety Supervisors and Safety Representatives, and explains their responsibilities.
Health and Safety Resources
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This section examines different resources and equipment that may be required to maintain effective health and safety procedures, and looks at the benefits to a business of investing in health and safety.
Hazards and Risks
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This section explains the difference between a hazard and a risk, and explains how these terms are used in health and safety legislation.
Reducing Risks and Hazards
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This section looks at the need to reduce risks and hazards in the workplace, and explains how changes to working practices can help to reduce or eliminate risks or hazards at work.
Risk Assessments
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This section introduces the concept of a risk assessment, and looks at the need for conducting regular risk assessments as well as explaining the steps for conducting a risk assessment in the workplace.
Accidents at Work
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This section explains common procedures for dealing with accidents in the workplace, and looks at how accidents can be classified and what action can be taken to prevent them recurring.
Accident Prevention
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This section introduces the basic principles of accident prevention, and examines different procedures and methods by which accidents in the workplace can be prevented.
Accident Awareness
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This section explains the vital part that accident awareness plays in effective workplace health and safety, and emphasises the importance of ensuring that all staff are aware of health and safety issues.
