Awareness of Health and Safety at Work
Virtual College
Summary
Overview
This Awareness of Health and Safety at Work course has been created to provide information on why health and safety in the workplace is important to employees and employers, what you must do according to UK legislation to ensure your health and safety at work and that of your colleagues.
By completing this course you will be meeting your legal obligations and minimising the risk of bad publicity or lawsuits.
On completion of this course learners will:
- Understand the key principles of workplace health and safety
- Outline accident prevention, investigation and reporting
- Communicate health and safety information
- Recognise common health and safety hazards and how they can be controlled
When you’ve completed this online training you will sit an online test and, once successful, you can download your certificate.
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Description
Lesson Plan
The subjects covered in this module include:
- Overview
- What is health and safety and why is it necessary?
- Health and safety legislation is applied to ensure
- Keeping health and safety under control
- Health and safety responsibilities
- The basis of British health and safety
- Umbrella British health and safety legislation
- Areas where additional regulations apply
- Particular areas of health and safety
- A health and safety workplace
- Health and safety benefits
- Terminology
- Legislation and enforcement
- Health and safety statistics
- Sources of guidance
- Employer responsibilities
- Employee concerns
- Health and safety at work
- Legal framework – structure of legislation
- British health and safety law
- Breaches of health and safety legislation
- Comparison between Civil and Criminal Law
- Penalties
- Health and safety policy
- Responsibility – employers
- Responsibility – small businesses
- Responsibility – employees
- First aid – what is first aid at work?
- What might be required?
- Accident book
- Sources of guidance
- Appointed person
- Frist aid
- A first aid room
- Informing employees
- Enforcement
- Inspection visits
- Officers
- Potentially heavy penalties
- Information sources
- Safety issues – health and safety committee
- Risk assessment
- The workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations) 1992
- Risk assessment
- Legal duty
- What is a risk assessment?
- Hazard and risk
- Helping to identify hazards and evaluate risks
- A five stage process
- Update employees
- Accident prevention, investigation and reporting
- Accident prevention – responsibility
- Personal unsafe events
- Unsafe workplace conditions
- A reactive process
- First steps after an accident
- Isolate the accident site
- Collecting evidence
- Investigation and outcome
- Recording details
- Legislated accident book
- Accident form
- RODDOR – background
- What is reportable?
- Recording and reporting
- Communication and environment
- Implementation – enforcement
- Workplace consultation arrangements
- Information – displayed
- Safety signs
- To be provided to employees
- Impact on land, air and water
- Minimising waste
- Sustainability
- Hazards and controls: fire and electricity
- Fire – common causes
- Smoking
- Safety regulation
- Those responsible for fire safety
- General safety requirements
- Hazards and controls: fire and electricity
- Safety equipment
- Safety policy
- Safety procedures
- Safety requirements
- Fire – extinguisher identification an mounting
- Spread of fire
- Electricity – dangers
- Potential hazards
- Precautions for safe installation
- Precautions for power sources
- Key precaution measures
- Risk and assessment
- Working safely to reduce risk
- Hazards and controls: COSHH and PPE
- Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH) regulations 2002
- Natural substances
- Regulation requirements
- The cost of poor control
- Chemicals and labelling
- Changes to CHIP labelling
- Current CHIP labels
- New CLP labels
- COSHH – safety data sheets
- Risk assessment control measures
- How might workers be exposed
- Applying control measures
- Control equipment safety
- Natural substance
- Control common measures
- Applying a risk assessment
- Training and instruction
- Keep workers healthy
- Sources of help
- Covered separately
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- PPE – other regulations
- Assessing suitability
- Potential hazards and types
- Training
- Maintenance and marketing
- Hazards and controls: manual handling and DSE
- Manual handling – potential causes of injury
- Risk assessment
- Employee duties
- AVOID
- ASSESS
- Examples of potential problems and reducing risk
- Training
- Display screen equipment (DSE) regulation
- Some exceptions
- Potential harm
- Work station risk assessment
- Employee training
- Information
- Hazards and controls: manual handling and DSE
- Other PUWER requirements
- General requirements
- More regulations
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for employees and employers who require health and safety training.
Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
Duration
Approximately 1-2 hours. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. The course is self-paced with approximately 93 interactive screes and multiple components. Your progress will be recorded throughout.
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Accreditation
This course is CPD certified.
Certification
On completion of this course you will be able to print a Virtual College certificate.
Questions and answers
can you work on the building site, after passing the exam, though this course?
Answer:Hi, We would recommend you checking with your employer to see what their requirements are for training. Kind regards, Virtual College
This was helpful.Does the course include confirmation of understanding questions and an end of course assessment test or exam?
Answer:Hi David, Within the course is a series of training activities and on completion of those you will gain access to an online test, there may be practice questions throughout the training material to help you prepare for this. Once that has been passed a certificate will become available to download. Kind regards, Virtual College
This was helpful.If the final assessment is failed can I retake it? If so how many attempts do I get?
Answer:Hi David, You get an initial six attempts at the test, if you fail those more are available by contacting our Support Team. Kind regards, Virtual College
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