Posted on the 5th of January 2012
...now you can easily find out - Health and Safety coordinators can now see the training feedback written by their own staff members!
Staff training feedback reviews were added into our new-look website in October - this enhanced feature now enables you to see the reviews your OWN staff have written, all collected together in one place, just for you to see. You can easily find out if they have found the training useful – it’s immediate feedback and it’s in your reporting area. If you want to have a look now simply log on and click on the new tab in the top left-hand corner STAFF REVIEWS.
We know our training is the best, and it’s really great that, judging by the reviews, your staff think so too!
Reviews are easy to view on our website – to see all the reviews we have received since October when the facility was added - simply click onto –
Fire Awareness in the Workplace REVIEWS
Fire Warden REVIEWS
Manual Handling REVIEWS
Display Screen Equipment REVIEWS
Slips, Trips and Falls REVIEWS
If you are not already using our ONLINE training and would like to have a look to see how it could benefit your company either phone us on 0800 612 7088, send an email to enquiries@ihasco.co.uk; alternatively click set up a 14 day free trial and fill in your details - simple!
Posted on the 22nd of December 2011
A big thank you to all our customers, to everyone who has completed health and safety training from The Interactive Health and Safety Company.
Wishing you all a safe, happy and healthy Christmas and New Year.
Our OPENING TIMES over the Christmas period will be as follows –
Friday 23rd December 2011 9.30am to 2.30pm.
Monday 26th December 2011 CLOSED.
Tuesday 27th December 2011 CLOSED.
Wednesday 28th December 2011 9.30am to 2.30pm.
Thursday 29th December 2011 9.30am to 2.30pm.
Friday 30th December 2011 9.30am to 2.30pm.
Monday 2nd January 2012 CLOSED.
We will resume normal office hours 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday on Tuesday 3rd January.
We look forward to talking to you in 2012.
Posted on the 19th of December 2011
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics for last year (2010/2011) recorded 1.2 million people suffering from ill health they thought was work related - an estimated 26.4 million working days were lost last year due to work-related illness and injury.
Looking closely at the statistics it’s clear that an incredibly high proportion of accident, injury and ill health is down to things that could be easily avoided with a little training -
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Around 2 million working days lost were attributed to poor manual handling and slips, trips injuries;
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Manual handling injuries were the most commonly reported kind of accident;
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Slips, trips and falls made up more than half of all reported major injuries and almost a third of over-3-day injuries.
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Musculoskeletal disorders (which includes bad backs, necks upper and lower limbs) accounted for the greatest amount of ill health and around half of all reported absence.
Musculoskeletal disorders are not only due to poor manual handling techniques but can also be due, amongst other things, to poor seating position, especially when regularly sitting in front of a computer.
Manual handling, display screen equipment and slips, trips training is essential for everyone. And iHasco is so confident that our training is perfect to keep staff up-to-date and help combat these health concerns that we are offering free trials of all training programmes.
Manual Handling in the Workplace includes a step-by-step guide to lifting and lowering properly, to and from floor or table height and emphasises the importance of planning a route and not taking on something that’s too heavy or too dangerous.
Slips, Trips and Falls concentrates primarily on preventing slipping and tripping, looking at common causes and simple solutions and emphasising the importance of employees taking responsibility - dealing with problems and avoiding creating hazards themselves. The training includes a full section about using ladders and stepladders, highlighting the importance of using the correct equipment, checking the safety of the equipment, its use, its positioning and the competence of the user.
Display Screen Equipment training is concerned with everything to do with how your workstation is set up – looking at sitting posture, how your screen is adjusted, how you type and the conditions around you. It includes a section on portable devices, an individual DSE risk assessment (which is completed as part of the training) and a set of simple exercises designed to counter any stresses and strains at work.
Taking around 30 minutes each to complete, these training programmes can’t help but increase the health and safety of everyone at work.
Posted on the 16th of December 2011
We have smashed our target of topping 100,000 training courses this year, and are now really close to doubling this and providing 200,000 individual training courses!
Health and safety training is a legal requirement and we think our fantastic results are due to a combination of factors - the introduction in September of the new title Slips, Trips and Falls, the new design and upgraded website and a growing interest in iHasco products – Fire Awareness in the Workplace, Fire Warden Training, Manual Handling, Display Screen Equipment and the new Slips, Trips and Falls prevention programme.
Towards the end of a year and the start of a new one there is usually a dip in requests for training, but this year end we recorded a thirty percent increase in training using our courses, compared to last year; with the requests for Fire Safety training remaining steady but a notable increase in Manual Handling training.
Each of our training programmes is designed to have the same feel and look, high quality and style and uses clearly written and spoken English. The training incorporates a stylish mix of video, animation, graphics and presenter-led information and is designed to be engaging – it’s got to be easily digested and retained, otherwise it’s not done its job! And each programme tries to include that special quality – something that makes it memorable, it could be the little boy ‘manual handling’ a box perfectly, or the secretly filmed fire evacuation, or even the DSE exercises to help counter RSI. Maybe that’s the secret of our success.
And we are so confident that our health and safety training is the best there is, we’re happy to show it to you – we’ll send it out on a no-obligation trial or set up an online trial. Just look at the reviews on our site for each of our programmes to see how much our customers like the programmes and our customer support.
Thank you to all our customers who come back to us again and again and all the requests and suggestions for new training titles – we’re working on them!
Posted on the 8th of December 2011
It's squirrelled away at the bottom of our pages, so you may well have missed it!
The resources work well alongside our training programmes, but are brilliant as useful information and support material for your health and safety training - for example a handy print-out to remind you which type of fire extinguisher should be used for which type of fire.
I don't know if you've seen our Display Screen Equipment training programme yet, but included in the FREE RESOURCES area are links to some of the DSE exercises. These exercises are designed to help relieve the stresses and strains associated with using computers for a large part of your work day - eyestrain, RSI and backache for example.
The Manual Handling Powerzone chart is also available to print out for easy reference.
We will be regularly adding to our FREE RESOURCES so please look at it regularly, or even set it as a favourite!