This course is aimed at anyone who requires a course in health and safety awareness and covers workplace regulation, accident prevention and procedures and holds a level 2 certification. It is designed to meet health and safety regulations and covers regulations, precautions, planning, risk assessments, PPE, individual sectors, what causes accidents, employer/employee responsibilities, RIDDOR, COSHH, first aid, workstation/VDU safety, working at heights, gas safety, occupational health, infection control, electricity, enforcement and the dangers and links to the regulations in fire and manual handling.
Some of the training course content is listed below:
- Introduction and regulation
- Health and safety and its importance
- What causes accidents?
- Health and Safety Law
- Employee and employer responsibility
- LOLER regulations
- PUWER regulation 1998
- Reasonably practical
- Welfare at work
- Electricity and electricity at work regulations
- Prevention of accidents
- Why prevention is important and what can be done
- Risk assessments
- Assessing risk – high and low risk
- What is a hazard?
- Personal protective equipment
- Substances dangerous to health – COSHH
- Portable gas appliances
- Safety signs
- Correct lighting
- When an accident happens
- First aid provision
- Training requirements
- Basic First Aid Advice
- RIDDOR and accident reporting
- Workplace policies and procedures
- Equipment in the workplace and how you can get hurt
- Working at heights
- Evacuation procedures
- Noise and vibration
This health and safety awareness course is available with 6 hours of CPD time credits and on completion, all candidates will receive valid and up-to-date certification, which is valid for three years. Please contact us for additional information through our contact page.