Managing Health and Safety
This course is designed for supervisors and managers, and helps them to understand their responsibilities for Health and Safety in the workplace.
The course teaches methods for planning, implementing and maintaining a successful workplace Health and Safety policy, including developing policy, setting standards and conducting audits and reviews.
At the end of the course, you will understand both employers' and employees' requirements under Health and Safety, and will be able to work towards improving Health and Safety standards 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...
Why Manage Health and Safety?
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This section of the course emphasises the importance of having well-managed health and safety procedures in any workplace, and the potential consequences of poorly managed health and safety.
Set Your Policy
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This section introduces the concept of a written health and safety policy, and looks at what this should include as well as the situations in which an organisation should have a health and safety policy.
Developing a Health and Safety Policy
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This section explains the process of developing a health and safety policy for a business and implementing this in an organisation.
Organise Your Staff
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This section looks at the concept of a health and safety culture, and discusses ways to develop a health and safety culture amongst employees.
Plan and Set Standards
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This section examines ways of planning and setting goals to ensure that health and safety policy is implemented effectively, and provides methods and techniques to ensure that plans are carried out efficiently.
Measure Your Performance
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This section explores the continual monitoring of health and safety in the workplace, and looks at different methods of monitoring progress as well as common health and safety documentation and conducting health and safety inspections.
Learn From Experience Audit and Review
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This section explains the process of conducting health and safety audits, and explains how an audit should be carried out as well as looking at making improvements or changes based on the results of a health and safety audit.
