2655 Health & Safety courses

Step Ladder Safety Awareness Workplace accidents can have serious consequences for both the casualty and their organisation. It is important that both employees and their employers understand the risks associated with working from height and that they know how to use equipment in a safe, appropriate manner. An individual can sustain an injury falling just a couple of metres. They can also suffer a back injury if they fail to take precautions when moving and positioning equipment. Stepladders are used frequently in the workplace, so it is essential that employees know when and how to use them. This course will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the risks associated with stepladders, how to put in place effective precautionary measures and how to ensure that equipment is fit for purpose. Not all accidents are preventable, but when everyone knows how to work safely, the majority of incidents can be avoided. You Will Learn:- Why you need to take the risk of accidents and injury seriously and why the proper use of stepladders should be of concern to all employees and employers. How to assess whether a stepladder is the most appropriate form of equipment for a task and the factors you must take into consideration when conducting a risk assessment. How to check that a stepladder is fit for purpose, how to spot the signs that indicate it should be withdrawn from use and how to ensure that a faulty piece of equipment is not used by mistake. What you need to remember when working with a stepladder, including how to position your body and work effectively with tools whilst carrying out a task. How to move and store a stepladder safely and securely, taking into account its material, intended purpose and points of structural vulnerability. Benefits Of Taking This Course:- You will be able to use a stepladder confidently and safely, both at home and in the workplace. You will be able to offer guidance to others who are inexperienced in stepladder use. You will have a greater understanding of health and safety concerns at work, which is especially beneficial if you are in a management or HR role. You will be in a position to advise your organisation regarding stepladder and work at height policies, which may make an appreciable difference to the number of accidents recorded at your place of work. Course Modules: Module 1: The Importance of Stepladder Safety Module 2: When is a Stepladder the Most Appropriate Piece of Equipment? Module 3: What Should You Check Before Using a Stepladder? Module 4: Using a Stepladder Safely Module 5: How to Store and Handle a Stepladder

Description Every year, millions of people around the world are injured at work. Occasionally, these injuries are fatal. Not only do workplace accidents result in pain and suffering for the casualty, but they also come at a cost to the organisation in terms of profit, productivity and reputation. In this course, you will learn how and why taking ergonomic factors into account when designing a job or workplace lowers the chances of an accident. You will discover how successful businesses manage the most common workplace risks and why it is important to consider the work culture as a whole when making changes designed to improve worker safety and wellbeing. What You Will Learn: What is meant by the term “ergonomics” and why it is necessary to consider the nature of the job, worker characteristics and organisational factors when making decisions that could impact upon worker health and safety. What the term “procedure” means, how procedures are carried out, what to bear in mind when designing a procedure, how and why procedural errors occur and the link between procedures and competence. How to ensure that workers undertake manual handling tasks in a safe and efficient manner and how to limit the number of manual handling tasks carried out at work. Why fatigue is a risk factor in the workplace and how to ensure the welfare of shift workers. Why it is important to promote a culture of safety at work, why making changes can pose difficulties and how to overcome resistance to change. Benefits Of Taking This Course:- You will be in a position to identify health and safety risks in the workplace, to identify job design problems and to alert your supervisor or manager to issues that require attention. If you work in an HR role, or have been given special responsibility for health and safety at work, you will benefit from this introduction to the interaction between ergonomic factors and accident prevention. If you are a manager, this course will help you to educate your team with regards to health and safety issues, thus promoting a safe working environment. If you are in a senior management position, this course will give you the confidence and knowledge you need to inspire the active development of a positive safety culture. If you are interested in a career in ergonomics or health and safety, this course will provide you with an overview of the key issues confronting organisations today.   Course Modules/Lessons Module 1: Steps to Minimize Workplace Related Injuries Module 2: Reducing Risk of Injury When Designing Interiors Module 3: Preventing Injury via Appropriate Manual Handling Module 4: Shift Work, Fatigue and Safety Module 5: Building a Safe Organizational Culture

Introduction: Every year, 25 people die while working in confined spaces in the UK. The majority of victims work in the construction industry. Many of these deaths are preventable. Understanding the unique risks of carrying out work in these environments and insisting on safer working practices is essential to upholding worker health and safety. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the risks associated with working in confined spaces, the obligations of employers and employees under the law and the practical measures that will reduce the risk of injury and death.   What You Will Learn: The criteria that governs what constitutes a “confined space” and why it is important to understand this definition. The hazards that make working in a confined space dangerous, including excessive heat, fumes and low levels of oxygen. Why it is essential to undertake a risk assessment prior to commencing work in confined spaces and the steps you should take when evaluating potential hazards. Best practices for working in confined spaces, including how to ensure adequate lighting, ventilation and systems of communication. Benefits Of Taking This Course: If you employ people who work in confined spaces, this course will help you appreciate and meet your responsibilities under the law. If you are responsible for carrying out health and safety assessments at work, this course will help you take into account the key hazards that could affect employees working in confined spaces. If you work in confined spaces, this course will teach you how to minimise your risk of injury at work. If you are interested in occupational health and safety, particularly in the construction industry and similar fields of work, this course will provide you with essential information on one of the most significant safety hazards in the workplace.

Carbon Monoxide Awareness Certification Carbon monoxide murders many individuals every year. Basically imperceptible without expert gear, it is now and then known as the "quiet executioner". This course tends to the issue of carbon monoxide openness in the working environment. It consolidates verifiable data about the causes and results of carbon monoxide harming with commonsense direction on the best way to lessen the danger of openness. You Will Learn:- What carbon monoxide is, the manner by which it is delivered and its short and long haul consequences for human wellbeing. Step by step instructions to forestall carbon monoxide spills by picking and keeping up reasonable gear, setting up an appropriate workspace and making acclimations to work measures if essential. The obligations of bosses and representatives under the law and an outline of how wellbeing and security enactment can go about as a manual for forestalling carbon monoxide harming. What you need to do in case of a carbon monoxide hole and how to function with outsiders in lessening the danger of future episodes. Advantages Of Taking This Course:- Any business hoping to additional their insight into their commitments under wellbeing and security law will profit by taking this course. You will actually want to recognize expected wellsprings of carbon monoxide harming in the working environment and find ways to cure the circumstance. Anybody working in a climate which might actually open them to carbon monoxide will profit by building up a comprehension of the signs and manifestations of carbon monoxide harming. On the off chance that you are keen on word related wellbeing, this course will give you an important outline of a typical working environment risk.

Wellbeing and Safety in the Workplace (UK) Certification Despite your situation in an association, the support of the wellbeing and security of both you and your labor force is priceless. At the point when laborers become ill, profitability decays, different specialists become wiped out, and the association endures overall. Realizing how to develop legitimate rules, to oversee wellbeing and amplify security is fundamentally significant. A hazardous workplace brings down assurance, however it can likewise leave you, as a business, responsible to cover the deficiency of wages and torment and enduring experienced by a harmed party. Along these lines, showing your colleagues how to keep a working environment safe and dispense with mishaps is an imperative expertise in the present progressively serious work market. This course is offered entirely on the web. This considers the representative to practice total independence to concentrate any place and at whatever point is generally appropriate for them. What You Will Learn: In this course, your colleagues will become familiar with about the accompanying: The gatherings that are liable for keeping up the wellbeing and security of an association; The legitimate necessities that your association should keep, while getting the wellbeing and security of its workers; The instruments accessible to help survey the dangers in a work environment and what should be possible, to limit these dangers; Step by step instructions to perceive the situations in your association that are at the most danger; Why appropriate preparing of representatives with respect to their wellbeing is so imperatively significant, particularly for those that are needed to consistently lift substantial burdens; The dangers related with power and how to maintain a strategic distance from injury when working with power; At the point when mishaps occur, what you ought to do first and how to control emergency treatment, while anticipating the appearance of a crisis clinical group. How Completing This Course Can Benefit Your Employees: There are a scope of advantages that workers can anticipate, when they have effectively finished this course. These advantages include: The capacity to keep a work environment as protected and injury free as could be expected, by ensuring that however many of your representatives as could reasonably be expected are educated in like manner regarding the matter; As an entrepreneur, knowing your possible risk in an assortment of circumstances; The capacity to learn at that point and from the spot that best suits your workers; Endless supply of the course, your staff get an industry-perceived and completely certify certificate that can be sent by means of post or printed out grinding away; Study materials are accessible on all significant gadgets - all that is required is a web association.

Sharps Injuries Awareness Certification Consistently, more than 100,000 individuals support sharps wounds at work. Most of these people work in wellbeing and social consideration settings, however representatives in different fields are likewise in danger. Sharps wounds can have dependable physical and mental impacts, so it is imperative to kill or diminish the probability of injury at every possible opportunity. In this course, you will figure out how wellbeing and security enactment ought to be carried out when working with sharps, how to establish a more secure workplace that diminishes the danger of injury and how to react to a sharps injury. What You Will Learn What sharps wounds are, the reason they are hazardous, who is in danger and key bits of wellbeing and security enactment applicable to their avoidance and the executives. How the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013 shield laborers from sharps wounds. How, why and when preparing representatives in the protected utilization of sharps can diminish their danger of injury. What to do in case of a sharps injury and what data businesses need to record following an occurrence. Advantages of Taking This Course In the event that you are a business or boss in a setting where sharps are utilized, this course will help you meet your commitments under wellbeing and security law. Any individual who works with sharps will profit by the data on safe working given in this course. Anybody liable for medical aid at work will profit by seeing how sharps wounds happen and how they ought to be dealt with. Anybody answerable for directing danger evaluations in the working environment will profit by understanding the dangers presented by sharps and how they can be diminished.

Solitary Working Awareness Full information on all parts of 'solitary working' is crucial for independently employed specialists just as the businesses and representatives in the applicable enterprises to keep a protected, beneficial and legitimate business. This course gives a far reaching knowledge into each part of 'solitary working', including the legitimate definitions, the potential risks implied and how you can stay with yourself, your organization and laborers safe. From talking about the various enterprises and occupations implied to featuring the risks, and clarifying the wellbeing and legitimate estimates you need to execute, this course covers each perspective that everybody engaged with 'solitary working' has to know. You Will Learn The past, present and full meaning of 'solitary working' The various ventures and occupations that include 'solitary working' Every one of the dangers and dangers implied in every industry and work Anticipation and security estimates required The lawful and administrative commitments for anyone engaged with 'solitary working' Advantages of Taking This Course You will actually want to decide dangers in your particular workplace You will actually want to recognize and kill any possible risks You will comprehend the lawful necessities encompassing 'solitary working' and apply them in your workplace You will comprehend the guidelines which administer 'solitary working' and give priceless counsel in your working environment You will actually want to play out a full 'solitary working' hazard appraisal

Threats of Working at Night Certification In the present progressively worldwide society, a developing number of individuals are viewed as "night laborers". These are people that work at any rate three hours every night consistently during the long stretches of 11pm and 6am. As more individuals start working these sorts of movements, including crisis laborers, medical care experts, assembly line laborers and surprisingly middle class venture expedites, the threats of the night move are additionally getting progressively clear. Shockingly, numerous individuals occupied with this kind of work don't think about the dangers or how to forestall genuine harm to their wellbeing. This course furnishes you with extensive data about the threats of working around evening time. It starts by discussing night work all in all, including a prologue to the pertinent UK enactment overseeing this sort of move work. The course at that point moves straightforwardly into discussing the risks related with working around evening time. Then, understudies are given data about forestalling or moderating these threats. At last, adapting procedures are given, assisting with facilitating the separation related with working around evening time. You Will Learn:- The meaning of a "night specialist" and instances of occupations that fit that portrayal Insights regarding the guidelines and guidelines covering night laborers in the UK Data about the effect of working around evening time on your physical and emotional wellness Tips on the most proficient method to forestall certain threats related with night work from happening Tips on the most proficient method to lessen the effect of unavoidable dangers Data on the most proficient method to adapt to the effect night work can have on your enthusiastic satisfaction and gathering of people Advantages of Taking This Course Finding out about the various standards that apply to night laborers instead of the individuals who work during the day Understanding the specialized meaning of night work Realizing how to recognize the dangers associated with night move work Figuring out how to diminish the effect of night work on your wellbeing Deciding how to adapt to the effect night work can have different parts of your life, including your feeling of prosperity

Prologue to Emergency Procedures in the Workplace Crises can occur whenever in the work environment. Having a bunch of techniques, approaches and a very much made crisis arrangement can help forestall numerous wounds and miscommunication. Bosses and workers who set aside the effort to create and rehearse essential crisis systems frequently improve their general wellbeing and security at their work environment. While you probably won't have the option to anticipate each and every crisis situation, having at any rate the overall crisis circumstances shrouded is a positive development. This course will really expound on what a decent crisis plan is, the thing that to stay away from and what makes a very much prepared worker in the event of a crisis. We start by tending to how a decent crisis plan varies from terrible crisis methodology and a rundown of regular crises that organizations manage. Then, we survey great crisis methods, to incorporate what an all around prepared representative ought to have taking everything into account and what to keep away from in crisis technique arranging. At long last, we show you a few stages to take and furnish you with tips to help your crisis arranging measure. You Will Learn: About various kinds of crisis circumstances What ought to be incorporated into your crisis plans What's in store of representatives during a crisis Tips to help make crisis arranging simpler and brief The Benefits of Taking This Course: You will actually want to find out about great crisis arranging You will actually want to find out about awful crisis strategies You will find out about the advantages of good crisis arranging Seeing how to make a crisis activity plan and how to implement it

Wellbeing and Safety Basics and Essentials This course covers straightforward regular perspectives that ought to be polished day by day. It is imperative that everybody rehearses great individual cleanliness, ecological tidiness, and knows about wellbeing and crisis strategies. These practices are crucial to your own picture, and the wellbeing and security of the different individuals from a family. Numerous people discover this course assists with setting them up for the labor force. Each training can help shape an individual into a capable and reliable one where wellbeing, cleanliness and security are concerned. Wellbeing and security abilities are fundamental to keep a solid, spotless and safe body and climate. Responsibility is the main trademark one should have to be fruitful in succeeding and rehearsing these abilities. Each standard and ability are define towards the ideal objective. Wellbeing and security abilities are fundamental in episodes, for example, forestalling wounds, diminishing odds of abuse, singular strengthening, and they establish an effective climate for everybody included. Regardless of whether your home serves as a working environment and your danger for risk openness is low, it is as yet fundamental to guarantee you are living in a perfect climate. You Will Learn: Abilities to guarantee that you keep yourself protected and sound The most effective method to rehearse individual cleanliness and keep a spotless climate The most effective method to address crisis preparation and manage irregular circumstances Advantages of Taking This Course You can learn regular practices that apply to any circumstance Master abilities on the most proficient method to be arranged and coordinated in any climate Depict and comprehend the significance of wellbeing, health, security and readiness