Health & Safety Training for Health & Social Care Workers Level 2 - Online CPD Course

Health & Safety Training For Health & Social Care Workers Level 2 - Online CPD Training Course

Welcome to Octrac Consulting's online health and safety training course. This health and safety e-learning course was developed to meet the required learning outcomes in the Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) recommendations for health and social care providers.

Assessment and certification

At the end of this online health and safety training course, learners will be required to complete an online assessment. On successful completion of the knowledge test (80% pass mark), learners will be able to download a FREE CPD certificate that is valid for one year.

Course accreditation

The content of this online health and safety training course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines..

Course duration

It will take approximately 45 to 90 minutes to complete this health & safety e-learning course. The length of time to complete the course depends on the following:

• your prior knowledge and experience about health and safety awareness in the workplace and related regulations
• how quickly you can study and absorb the learning materials
• how much you can pace yourself once started

You are in full control of how long it takes to complete this health and safety training course. You can go through the course in one sitting, or pause and come back later. Your progress will be recorded throughout and you will be able to start where you previously left off.

You can revise the online learning materials as many times as you like. Even after completing the course successfully (and obtaining your CPD) certificate, you will still have access to your learning materials for 365 days.

Payment and additional information

After adding your health and safety e learning course (s) to the shopping cart (by selecting Add to Cart), you will be able to make a secure payment using all major credit and debit cards. You can also make a secure payment through PayPal.

Once you have purchased your health & safety online training course (s), you will be sent a confirmation e-mail. You will then receive a link and login details to access your e-learning course (s) within 24 hours of purchase.

Why is health and safety training important?

This health and safety e-learning course was developed to meet the required learning outcomes in the Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) recommendations for health and social care providers.

Health and safety training - meeting employers' legal obligations

Octrac Consulting's online health and safety course helps UK employers and employees alike to fulfil the health and safety regulations. Our health and safety courses provide the essential knowledge and understanding as required by regulatory authorities.

Course aims and objectives

• To provide the learner with an understanding of the key legislation regarding Health and Safety
• Provide an understanding of hazard spotting and risk assessments
• Enable learners to apply health and safety concepts to their work practice
• To provide an awareness of accident, incident and near miss reporting
• To provide essential health, safety and welfare at work training resources in an engaging and meaningful way
• To provide a FREE blended learning environment that is available to all individuals and businesses

What is covered in this online course?

• What is health and safety?
• Awareness of health and safety related accidents and ill-health
• Health and Safety in the workplace
• Legal responsibilities and requirements
• Awareness of health and safety policies and procedures
• Define and be aware of workplace hazards
• Define risk, accident and harm
• Relate health and safety concepts to your workplace environment
• Awareness of individual responsibilities to cooperate with employers
• Awareness of the consequences of incorrect use of equipment
• Risks associated with display screen equipment and other work aids
• Awareness of risk assessment procedures
• First aid requirements in the workplace
• Manual handling risks including slips, trips and falls
• Basic fire safety awareness and individual responsibilities
• Basic infection and prevention awareness, including personal protective equipment (PPE)
• The importance of self-awareness and awareness of work related stress
• Awareness of occupational health hazards in the workplace
• Basic lone working awareness
• RIDDOR (including April 2012 update)
• Accident Reporting and Record Keeping
• Waste management guidance including:
  
  • The management of general waste
  • The management and disposal of sharps
  • Sharps Safety - sharps control measures and precautions
  • Sharps Safety - sharps practices
  • Sharps Safety - dealing with contaminated sharps
  • What to do following a sharps injury
• Where to get further information on health, safety and welfare at work (additional online learning resources)

Why choose Octrac Consulting’s health and safety training course?

There are benefits of choosing Octrac Consulting as your e-learning training provider, including:

• Over 1000 training courses available
• National Skills Academy for Health national delivery partner
• UK accredited e learning provider
• Internationally recognized CPD certificates
• SCORM compliant e-Learning courses
• TIN CAN compliant e-Learning courses
• interactive online learning courses
• free blended learning environment for individuals and organizations
• competitively priced online training courses
• meet UK compliance requirements
• reduce organizational carbon footprint
• immediate access to online learning materials
• minimize travel costs and man hour costs of classroom training
• minimize hours and days spent away in classroom training
• download or print CPD certificates on completion

Organisational e-learning

Are you responsible for organisational training and development or organisational statutory and mandatory compliance? You may want to find out more about how Learning Management System (LMS) may help your organisation. With out interactive LMS, managers and administrators can easily:

• set up a FREE blended learning environment;
• upload essential documents;
• upload individual and group learners;
• manage learners, including tracking progress
• review who has completed training
• download/print training reports for compliance audits

Health & Safety Training For Health & Social Care Workers Level 2 - Online CPD Training Course

Who is this health and safety training online course for?

The Mandatory Training Group’s health and safety eLearning course should be completed by all healthcare and social care staff. This includes unpaid and voluntary staff working in NHS and private hospitals, locum doctors, locum allied health professionals, agency nurses and healthcare assistants. This online health and safety training course is also relevant for health and social care support workers, including charities, nursing and residential home staff

This health and safety online training course can be taken as a standalone CPD course or as part of our online health and safety training package or the wider online candidate mandatory training courses.

This online health and safety training course covers the main points relating to health, safety and welfare at work legislation. It has additional online learning resources that provide more details for learners to refer to during the course and in practice.

• NHS staff
• Private hospital staff
• Healthcare professionals
• Agency workers
• Agency nurses
• Locum doctors and allied health workers
• Healthcare Assistants
• Healthcare clinical staff
• Health and social care support workers

Why is Skills for Health aligned mandatory training important?

This Skills for Health aligned practical mandatory training day and eLearning courses are designed for health and social care workers who work in NHS hospitals, private hospitals and related settings. This includes nurses, doctors, allied health professionals and health and social care support workers, as well as locum doctors, agency nurses, support workers and healthcare assistants.

The Skills for Health UK Core Skills Training Framework recommends that health and social care workers who do not have client facing roles may be required to only take some of these statutory and mandatory courses. Please check with your employer which courses you require. The Mandatory Training Group will not be responsible if you take the wrong courses.

You will be provided with the optional statutory and mandatory training courses that are required for your area of work. You can however choose the mandatory training modules that are most suited to your specific clinical environment. If you are a locum doctor, agency worker or agency nurse, please check with your locum agency regarding the specific mandatory training modules you require to meet the compliance requirements.

You can also select from our wide range of individual CPD courses in our elearning for healthcare course catalogue.

This online mandatory training package has been designed for busy healthcare and social care professionals. It has additional online learning resources that provide more details for learners to refer to during the course and in practice. For those who have completed statutory and mandatory training before, this training package provides you with the key legal and professional issues as specified in the Skills for Health's UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF).

Why is Skills for Health aligned mandatory training important?

This mandatory and statutory classroom and e-learning course package was developed to meet the required learning outcomes in the Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) recommendations for health and social care providers. This package covers all the legislative and medico-legal/clinic-legal requirements for health and social care professionals to work safely and efficiently, as well as minimising litigation.

Mandatory & Statutory training - meeting employers' legal obligations

The Mandatory Training Group's CSTF aligned practical and online mandatory training courses help UK employers and employees alike to fulfil their legislative obligations. Our mandatory and statutory courses for doctors provide the essential knowledge and understanding as required by regulatory authorities.

Practical/Physical training:

• Wear comfortable clothing
• Bring photo ID

Online modules:

• Access to desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone device

Our Skills for Health aligned mandatory training courses can be taken as part of induction to healthcare and social care sectors, as well as statutory and mandatory refresher training, annual mandatory training updates or continuing professional development (CPD) requirements for health and social care professionals.

The Mandatory Training Group’s online courses range from introductory modules at Level 1 to advanced and expert modules up to Level 6.

Our e-learning modules count towards CPD hours for professionals in various sectors to meet mandatory and statutory requirements.