Health And Safety At Work

RRP: (ex. VAT) 
£550
Price: (ex. VAT) 
£385
You save: 
£165 (30%)
Duration: 
1 Day
Code: 
HSW
Rating:
Rated at 90%

Overview

Avoid costly claims or workplace accidents by ensuring your organisation is compliant with all legal requirements. If you are responsible for health and safety in your workplace, this course covers everything you need to know. You will learn how to carry out your own risk assessments and add value to your organisation by improving safety and assuring legal compliance. The course works through plenty of interesting practical exercises to demonstrate how to create a safe place of work

Target Audience

Anyone who has responsibility for health and safety in the workplace should attend this course

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course

Objectives

  • Understanding the principles of health and safety and accident prevention
  • Ability to contribute to any health and safety management system
  • Understand the importance of risk assessment as a technique for accident and ill-health prevention
  • Understand the responsibilities placed on employers and employees
  • Understand the hazard, risk and main causes of harm to workers (manual handling, hazardous substances, exposure to noise and vibration)
  • Understand the importance of following systems, procedures and rules
  • The practical skills to reduce risks to health and safety
  • An appreciation of how workplace equipment and task design affect health and safety
  • A nationally accredited Level 2 qualification awarded by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

Course Content

Health & Safety law

  • The implied duty for risk assessment since 1974
  • The Management of Health & Safety at Work 1999
  • The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
  • The D.S.E Regulations 1992
  • Employer & employee duties
  • European directives and the 6 core regulations
  • Statute and civil law

Managing safety

  • Safety mind-set, commitment and culture
  • Safe systems, processes, procedures and people
  • Method statements (their use and design)
  • Safety policy
  • Employers' duties at common law health and safety

Accident prevention techniques and safety monitoring techniques

  • Principles of accident prevention
  • Risk assessment
  • Safe systems at work and competent persons
  • Accident investigation and reporting procedures
  • Safety monitoring techniques
  • Design of health and safety policy
  • The Competition and Enterprises Act

Participation on this course, followed by the successful completion of a short multiple-choice assessment at the end of the day, will lead you to being awarded a Level 2 award in Health & Safety in the Workplace from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

The CIEH is an professional body and registered charity at the forefront of environmental and public health; which sets standards and awards qualifications to develop workplace skills and encourage best practice in employees, managers and business owners.

You will also receive a copy of the CIEH handbook on Health and Safety First Principles.