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Health and Safety Courses

Browse our full suite of Health and Safety courses.

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Delivery Methods

Health and Safety courses are available as classroom-based courses, webinars, distance learning and eLearning.

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Handling Hazardous Substances (COSHH) Awareness Level 2

The Handling Hazardous Substances (COSHH) Awareness Level 2 course aims to provide learners with an understanding of substances hazardous to health and how they should be used to ensure safety. The course takes 2 hours to complete and successful candidates will be issued with a certificate that is valid for 3 years. The course covers topics such as recognizing hazardous substances, identifying the risks associated with them, and taking appropriate safety measures. By the end of the course, learners will have a good understanding of how to handle hazardous substances safely, reducing the risk of harm to themselves and others.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the legislative requirements relating to COSHH
  • Define hazardous substances
  • List forms of hazardous substances
  • Understand and describe the routes of entry
  • Describe and use safe handling principles
  • Understand the principles of risk assessment

Health and Safety Courses

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the need for infection prevention
  • Outline and describe a range of microorganisms capable of causing infections
  • Define infection and describe the ‘chain of infection’
  • Explain and practise a range of infection prevention procedures, including handwashing and decontamination
  • State sources of useful additional information.

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • To give managers and supervisors an understanding of everyone's safety and health responsibilities in the workplace
  • To enable managers and supervisors to recognise how they can influence, control and monitor risk to improve safety and health issues in the workplace

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Introducing working safely
  • Defining hazards and risk
  • Identifying common hazards
  • Improving safety performance

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • To understand what an abrasive wheel is and typical causes of accidents
  • Be able to explain common hazards and control measures
  • To know main, relevant legislation
  • Understand how to use an abrasive wheel safely and demonstrate how to fit one

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the moral and legal obligation to investigate accidents
  • Understand RIDDOR requirements
  • Understand and be able to apply accident and incident investigation procedures
  • Understand the importance of reviewing performance and learning lessons
  • Understand the benefits of implementing control measures to prevent accidents

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Be able to explain what asbestos is and its uses
  • Know how to avoid risks from ACMs
  • Understand what processes release fibres and how the law has been applied to the risk from ACMs
  • Explain why ACMs are harmful and what diseases it can cause
  • Understand what to do if you have unintentionally come into contact with ACMs

Classroom training
eLearning

Learning Objectives:

  • To introduce the learners to the trainer and First Response training
  • To outline the health and safety requirements and basic housekeeping for the course
  • List the policies of the client organisation and First Response Training
  • Outline the contents of the course

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand workplace violence and aggression
  • Know the laws that apply to both employers and employees regarding the subject
  • Consider how to resolve confrontational situations using effective communication
  • Understand factors regarding workplace safety
  • Understand the importance of personal safety
  • Understand reducing restrictive interventions by using a range of physical techniques to break away from aggressive situations

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand workplace violence and aggression
  • Know the laws that apply to both employers and employees regarding the subject
  • Consider how to resolve confrontational situations using effective communication
  • Understand factors regarding workplace safety
  • Understand the importance of personal safety

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Define ‘substance hazardous to health’
  • Identify the main legislation relevant to COSHH
  • Identify common hazardous substances
  • Describe ways that hazardous substances enter the body
  • List safe practices for handling hazardous substances

Classroom or webinar training
eLearning

Learning Objectives:

  • Have an awareness of relevant legislation
  • Understand how to identify hazards and prepare the home environment

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand roles and responsibilities for health, safety and welfare in the workplace
  • Know how risk assessments contribute to health and safety
  • Understand how to identify and control the risks from common workplace hazards

Classroom or webinar training
eLearning

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand roles and responsibilities for health, safety and welfare in the workplace
  • Know how risk assessments contribute to health and safety
  • Understand how to identify and control the risks from common workplace hazards
  • Know the procedures for responding to accidents and incidents in the workplace
  • Understand fire safety in the workplace and the roles and responsibilities of those working there

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Know the importance of spinal health and wellbeing and the impact this has on any working activity
  • To identify the importance of taking a balanced risk assessment approach and what needs to be considered prior to undertaking the activity
  • To describe the legal framework and key guidance and how this influences safer person centred manual handling
  • To demonstrate safer principles of handling whilst completing practical aspects of your role

Classroom or webinar training
eLearning

Learning Objectives:

  • Detail the relevant Legislation
  • Explain the Risk Assessment process involved in selecting PPE
  • Explain when and where the use of PPE is required
  • Explain the different types of PPE
  • Know employee responsibilities with PPE

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand workplace violence and aggression
  • Know the laws that apply to both employers and employees regarding the subject
  • Consider how to resolve confrontational situations using effective communication
  • Understand factors regarding workplace safety
  • Understand the importance of personal safety

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand roles and responsibilities for health, safety and welfare in the workplace
  • Know how risk assessments contribute to health and safety
  • Understand how to identify and control the risks from common workplace hazards
  • Know the procedures for responding to accidents and incidents in the workplace

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the term ‘sharps’
  • List the legislation associated with sharps awareness
  • List the infections associated with sharps
  • Explain the importance of risk assessments in sharps awareness
  • Describe how to treat a sharps injury

Classroom and webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify related health and safety legislation
  • List common causes of accidents
  • Know the meaning of ‘risk’ when it comes to health and safety
  • List the steps to a risk assessment
  • Explain how  to support the risk assessment process

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • To understand the Working at Height Regulations 2005
  • Describe your responsibilities under the Working at Height Regulations 2005
  • Know the risks of working at height
  • Understand how to work safely on ladders and step ladders

Classroom or webinar training
eLearning course

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the main requirements of current DSE legislation
  • Identify hazards from working with DSE
  • Conduct a DSE risk assessment
  • Identify and initiate the implementation of control measures
  • Record and review the risk assessment process

Classroom training
eLearning

Learning Objectives:

  • To know why it is important to manage safely
  • Explain the law systems of the UK
  • Identify what the law requires you to do
  • Identify common hazards
  • Explain ‘risk’
  • Know how to complete a risk assessment
  • Explain how risk can be reduced

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • To know why it is important to manage safely
  • Understand how the law applies
  • Be aware of legal requirements
  • Be able to implement a health and safety management system
  • Understand why accidents and incidents should be investigated

Classroom or webinar training

Learning Objectives:

  • Know the importance of managing health and safety
  • Understand how the law works
  • List relevant Legislation
  • Know the functions of a safety representative
  • Understand hazards and risk
  • Understand the role of safety committees
  • Have an awareness of accident reporting and investigation

Classroom training

Learning Objectives:

  • Key reasons for supervising safety and health
  • Supervisor’s health and safety responsibilities and influence on culture
  • Common workplace hazards, unsafe acts and unsafe conditions and their controls
  • Risk assessment in the workplace
  • Key benefits of management systems
  • Incident reporting and investigation
  • The importance of communication and the different methods used

Classroom training