Health & Safety Training Level 2 Course
Online Training Course
Ad Vitam Learning
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Overview
Welcome to Ad Vitam Learning'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.
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Description
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)
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.
Who is this course for?
Ad Vitam Learning’s health and safety e-Learning 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.
Requirements
- pc
- tablet
- laptop
- smartphone
- access to the internet
Career path
- 2 CPD credits/points
- certificate in health and safety
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