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Essential Health and Safety Training
This basic Health and Safety Training programme covers the key areas of Health and Safety that you are legally required to train your staff in. It provides an easy-to-follow but comprehensive introduction to the major topics that will keep your workplace safe. This course is designed for employees at all levels who need basic health and safety training. This training module is IOSH & RoSPA Approved.
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Learning outcomes
- Gain a better understanding of everyone's health and safety responsibilities
- Be able to identify the different types of safety signs and what they mean
- Gain a better understanding of the types of risks and hazards in a workplace and learn how you can prevent accidents and injuries
Covered in this Health & Safety course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 2 sections
- 1 The Hazards
- 2 Health and safety responsibilities
SECTION 1
Although there are many different types of hazards, most workplace injuries and ill-health are down to a relatively small number of common causes. We’ll be concentrating on these in this section, we'll look at slips, trips and falls, manual handling, DSE, working environment, fire, electricity and hazardous substances.
SECTION 2
Employers must comply with health and safety law to ensure everyone’s safety. To do this they’ll have safety policies and procedures in place. You need to know what’s in these, and you must follow them. In this section, we will be looking at what’s required of an organisation to ensure everyone’s health and safety.
About this course
Everyone in your workplace is legally required to have Health and Safety Training, and this module provides the perfect introduction to Health and Safety - whether as an induction tool, refresher, or for people changing roles within your organisation.
This IOSH & RoSPA Approved Health and Safety Training gives a good grounding in general Health and Safety at work, helping employees recognise and avoid risks at work and explaining what to do to minimise illness and reduce workplace accidents.
It looks at responsibilities and legal requirements, hazards and risk, safety signs at work, your working environment and workplace emergency procedures such as fire evacuation and calling the emergency services. Health and Safety Essentials briefly covers fire awareness; slips, trips and falls; manual handling; basic DSE; basic COSHH; and electrical safety.
Our health & safety training can be completed in one go or it can be done in bite size chunks - whatever suits you - the system remembers exactly where you stop, so you can resume where you left off.
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Health & Safety Training certificate
Download and print
Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Health and Safety Training - Basics & Essentials course concludes with a 20 question multiple-choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Essential Health and Safety Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
12,656 real user reviews
Very clear and concise
Excellent summary
VERY INFORMATIVE
VERY INFORMATIVE & KNOWLEDGEABLE
Far too long. Should have test at begin
If it had an initial test with 100% result meaning that the course is not required, I'd have not used an hour learning nothing. Also some of the test questions are ridiculous.
Very time consuming to complete
Felt too detailed and took a long time to complete this course.
Very informative and clearly delivered
The short sections helped me maintain interest and focus.
clear, understandable and well paced
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Training was good
Training was very straight forward to do
Very thorough
The training was suitably in depth, and covered a lot of useful information.
Why is this Health & Safety training important?
Compliance
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
The iHASCO Health and Safety Essentials programme is a starting point for workplace health and safety training, covering the basic knowledge required to help prevent some of the most common accidents and illnesses in the workplace. It covers basic requirements of a range of different Health and Safety Regulations, including:
- The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
- The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
- The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) order 2005
- The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
- The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
- The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
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