This course is aimed at anyone who requires a course in health and safety awareness and is suitable for all staff. It is designed to meet the Health and Safety regulations and covers regulations, precautions, planning, risk assessing, 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 in the regulations in fire and manual handling.
The course is a half day course and as with all our courses it can be taken at our dedicated training centre within Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre or our Instructors can travel to your premises. The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and comes with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate. This course comes with 4.0 hours of CPD, although the time to complete the course online may be less than this.
Syllabus:
- Introduction and Regulation
- Health and Safety and its importance
- What causes accidents?
- Health and Safety Law
- Employee and Employer Responsibility
- Prevention of Accidents
- Why prevention is important and what can be done
- Risk Assessment
- The Accident triangle
- The 5 stages of Risk assessment
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Substances dangerous to health - COSHH
- Warning signs
- When an accident happens
- Basic First Aid Advice
- RIDDOR and accident reporting
- Work place policies and procedures
- Equipment in the workplace and how you can get hurt
- When accidents happen
- Changes to RIDDOR 2013
- Specific areas of health and safety training
- Formal Fire Risk Assessment
- Fire Triangle
- Calling the fire service
- Evacuation Procedures
- Good Housekeeping
- Electricity
- Manual Handling
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Work station and VDU safety
- Occupational Health
- Infection control
- Summary of Health and Safety
- Enforcement of health and safety regulations
- What you need to remember and what to do next
Course Cost: Prices page
Course Duration: half day (approx 3 hours)
Certificate: Certificate and wallet card upon successful completion valid for 3 years
Requalification: Complete another half day course.
Next Course Dates:-
Please telephone 01628 474960 for our next course dates.
