Bedfordshire Chamber Training

Health and Safety Standards Course

Health & Safety Induction

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This Health and Safety Standards Course learning outcomes include; Understand computer workstation safety (DSE), fire safety, manual handling and accidents, as well as an understanding of electrical equipment and personal protection equipment (PPE), stress and wellbeing.
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Showing 10 of the 30 included eLearning lessons in this course. The whole course takes on average 2 hours, 4 minutes

Understand computer workstation safety (aka DSE), the appropriate positioning of workstations and how to correct or adapt work chairs to improve an "ergonomic posture".

Understand the potential harm of driving for work and how to take a proactive role in health and safety when driving.

Understand the types of hazardous substances that may be found in the workplace, and their potential impacts upon health. Also provides an understanding about the types of hazard warning symbols and their meaning.

Understand the dangers of disabling or bypassing safety features and safeguards on electrical equipment.

Understand the importance of regular workplace inspections to ensure that hazards are identified in order to pro-actively reduce risk.

Learn about the manual handling and movement of inanimate objects in the working environment and the techniques to use such as L.I.T.E.

Understand how to avoid and control the cumulative effects of harmful levels of noise and where they might occur in the workplace.

Learn about PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) including safety helmets (i.e. hard hats), hearing protection, eye protection, hand protection, protective footwear, masks, respirators, clothing and overalls.

Understand what working at height within the work environment actually means with examples to demonstrate suitable types of equipment and good practice.

Understanding accidents, incidents, near miss events and the legal reporting requirements of RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations).

Familiarisation with key principles of the 3 types of asbestos, Chrysotile (White), Crocidolite (Blue), Amosite (Brown) and the harm it can do, why buildings have asbestos and how is it managed.

Understand why colleagues under the influence of alcohol or drugs are not permitted to undertake work on the employers' behalf and learn about support options.

Understand the key principles of fire safety and how workplace fires can cause significant harm before reaching you. Learn about good housekeeping practices and other emergencies such as bomb threat and how they should be addressed in an emergency plan.

Understand the importance of informing colleagues of who their First Aider is and that medication such as pain relief is not to be administered during first aid. This module does not replace First Aid training.

Understand the identification, reporting and effective management of harassment and bullying instances at work.

Understand where to find information about the key points of the management of Health and Safety within an organisation and how it is integrated.

Understand legionnaires disease and the potential harmful impacts associated with the management of water systems in workplaces. Learn the sources of exposure for every-day workers, the effects on health, and how to control them.

Understand the safe systems of work for colleagues who work by themselves or without close or direct supervision and the precautions to be taken where personal safety is a concern within the workplace.

Learn about an employers legal duty to protect pregnant women and their unborn children from any work-related risks and understand the elements to be considered within a risk assessment that might affect women who are pregnant, breast feeding or have given birth within the past six months.

Understand the benefits of actively communicating occupational health issues to line managers.

Learn about the requirements for moving office equipment, how those involved must be trained and capable and the assessment for competence under control of contractors.

Understand why portable or moveable equipment may suffer additional wear, potentially causing harm to workers, we describe the factors which might contribute to this and actions to be taken by day-to-day workers and also by management such as user checks, formal visual examinations, and formal inspections/tests.

Understand the basics of the The 5 Steps to Risk Assessment concept to follow the guidance of Risk Assessors.

Learn about the different types of safety signs, such as; mandatory, prohibition, warning, safe condition and how to recognise them.

Understand the importance of reporting potential causes of slips, trips and falls.

Learn about the management of visitors within premises and in the cases of an emergency.

Understand the different types of work equipment machine guards including; Fixed, Adjustable, Automatic and Interlocking. Learn about Emergency Stop, Trip and Two Handed control devices and the types of harm that can occur if they are removed or tampered with.

Learn about negative stress, positive stress and pressure along with it's various sources and how they can be work or home related. Understand how to recognise the symptoms and which actions can achieve a healthy work/life balance.

Understand that young persons should be considered within risk assessments for events or activities within the workplace.

All trainees receive a globally recognized & subject informative Certificate of Completion as proof of successfully completing the training. Certificates are permanently stored in your account, always accessible online, and downloadable in PDF format too.

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Level 2
CPD
Award Winning Author
Health and Safety Standards Course

This online course includes all of the 30 lessons above. It is designed to develop the trainees Health and Safety Standards skills for health and safety compliance in the workplace, providing valuable real-world learning outcomes at a high speed. It's used by individuals, groups and businesses to train their workforce across industries including Education & Schools, Manufacturing & Engineering, Offices & Business Services, Retail, Digital Services & Design, Government & Institution, Charities & NGO, Oil, Gas & Mining, Travel & Leisure, Care Homes & Domiciliary Care, Hospital Recruitment, Logistics & Maritime, among others.

Provided by Bedfordshire Chamber Training based in Luton & Bedfordshire, it's accessible at anytime online from an internet connected device at work or home, such as a computer, tablet or smart phone. Teams have access to a highly rated LMS and all successfully completing trainees achieve a Certificate of Completion.

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Health & Safety Induction eLearning

This Health & Safety induction course provides a detailed grounding for those at work, focusing not only on the basic principles of workstation safety (DSE), manual handling, fire safety, but also the very real issues of accidents, driving at work, homeworking, working at height, drugs, alcohol & substance misuse, asbestos, slips, trips and falls and electrical awareness, to name but a few. Duration approximately 90 minutes.

As an employer it's important that your employees are provided with a detailed awareness of the hazards that face them day to day. That's difficult to do sometimes, as many may not even recognise the hazards within their day to day tasks and activities.

This training gives real and useful understanding of how to carry out a visual inspection of work equipment prior to use, an understanding of the effects of hazardous substances, and brings to the fore the issues and impacts of work / life balance.

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