Health and Safety in Care
It's important for all employees to have basic health and safety knowledge and all workplaces, across any sector, should also have nominated employees who cover key positions such as the Appointed First Aider and Fire Marshal. We can provide specialist health and safety training for care workers.
Health and Safety eLearning
Cover the basics quickly, from any location, with our Health and Safety Essentials eLearning.
Instructor-Led Training
We provide Health and Safety training in Classroom and Webinar settings, including in-person practical sessions.
Health and Safety Training for Care Workers
First Response Training provides a range of Level 2 and 3 Awards in key health and safety subjects for health and social care workers. Ranging from risk assessment, to fire safety and the safe use of wheelchairs, these courses are available in a range of delivery methods and are mapped to national standards.
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- List the legislation associated with lone-working
- Produce a risk assessment for lone working
- Describe the precautions that can be put into place
- Explain supervision for alone worker
- List methods of communication
- Describe how to report an incident
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- Explain what a fall is and the implications associated with slips, trips and falls
- Describe the hazard analysis and risk assessment process
- Have an understanding of the prevention of falls and intervention methods
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- Understand and demonstrate safer manual handling techniques when pushing/pulling wheelchairs
- Be aware of safe techniques for assisting a wheelchair user with transfers
- Understand how it feels to be an essential wheelchair user
- Be aware of access issues and how to improve access for wheelchair users and those assisting them
- Gain confidence to safely assist and manoeuvre wheelchairs in a range of situations
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- To define what crisis management in care is
- To learn how to identify and assess risks
- To find ways of developing prevention strategies
- To know how to respond effectively to emergencies
- To be able to communicate under pressure while maintaining a person-centred approach
- To understand legal and ethical responsibilities
- To determine ways to evaluate crisis responses to improve future practices
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 6 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- To define what crisis management in care is
- To learn how to identify and assess risks
- To find ways of developing prevention strategies
- To know how to respond effectively to emergencies
- To be able to communicate under pressure while maintaining a person-centred approach
- To understand legal and ethical responsibilities
- To determine ways to evaluate crisis responses to improve future practices
- To learn to be able to respond to specific crisis situations, including a scenario
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Conflict Resolution and Breakaway
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
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
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Infection Prevention and Control
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the causes of infection and the methods of control
- Identify the legislation and guidance associated with infection prevention and control
- Describe employer and employee responsibilities
- Explain safe practice and the use of PPE and personal hygiene
- Understand the principles of decontamination and waste management
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what Coronavirus (COVID-19) is
- List the signs and symptoms
- List who is at risk of infection
- General advice for COVID-19 / safe practice
- Understand the chain of infection
- Understand measures for preventing and limiting the spread
- Demonstrate effective hand hygiene
- Demonstrate effective use of disinfectant hand rubs
- Understand appropriate PPE
- Understand appropriate waste segregation
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Managing Risk
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- Legislation and responsibility
- How does the law work?
- What does the law require?
- What are common hazards?
- What is risk?
- What is a risk assessment?
- How can risk be reduced?
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Moving, Assisting and Hoisting
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
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 moving, assisting and hoisting
- To demonstrate safer principles of handling whilst completing practical aspects of your role
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- To be able to suitably assess hoisting operations and reduce the risk where reasonably practicable
- To know the main legislation relating to hoisting
- To demonstrate, practically the principles of safer hoisting of people
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the principles of Single Handed Care
- To know the main legislation relating to moving and assisting
- To demonstrate, practically, the principles of safe moving and assisting people
- To be able to suitably assess moving and assisting operations
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 2 days
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
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 before undertaking the activity
- To describe the legal framework and key guidance and how this influences safer person-centred moving, assisting and hoisting
- To demonstrate safer principles of handling whilst completing practical aspects of your role
- Manual Handling Theory
- Inanimate Load Handling & Practical Application of Ergonomics
- Chair Manoeuvres
- Bed Manoeuvres
- Hoisting
- Lateral Transfers
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
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 moving, assisting and hoisting
- To demonstrate safer principles of handling whilst completing practical aspects of your role
- Manual Handling Theory
- Inanimate Load Handling & Practical Application of Ergonomics
- Chair Manoeuvres
- Bed Manoeuvres
- Hoisting
- Lateral Transfers
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 2 days
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
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 before undertaking the activity
- To describe the legal framework and key guidance and how this influences safer person-centred moving, assisting and hoisting
- To demonstrate safer principles of handling whilst completing practical aspects of your role
- Manual Handling Theory
- Inanimate Load Handling & Practical Application of Ergonomics
- Chair Manoeuvres
- Bed Manoeuvres
- Hoisting
- Lateral Transfers
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
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 moving, assisting and hoisting
- To demonstrate safer principles of handling whilst completing practical aspects of your role
- Manual Handling Theory
- Inanimate Load Handling & Practical Application of Ergonomics
- Chair Manoeuvres
- Bed Manoeuvres
- Hoisting
- Lateral Transfers
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 7 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
Learning Objectives:
- Understand competency and assessment and manage both
- Explain the role of the assessor and their development
- To recap the legal framework and key guidance and how this influences safer person-centred moving, assisting and hoisting
- Know the importance of wellbeing and the impact this has on working activity
- To identify the importance of taking a balanced risk assessment approach and what needs to be considered before undertaking the activity
- Carry out assessments of staff competence and ensure that others are aware of their roles and responsibilities
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
This course can be delivered via Classroom or Webinar training. Please contact us to schedule training.
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: Up to 12 delegates
This course is delivered via Classroom training. Please contact us to schedule training.
CPD Points Available
These training courses are CPD accredited. This means that your staff members can receive nationally recognised CPD points for completing our high quality, externally verified training programmes.