New and Expectant Mothers at Work Training
This comprehensive online New and Expectant Mothers training programme provides both employers and employees with everything they need to know about returning to work post pregnancy and considerations for expectant mothers.
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Every year around 350,000 women in the UK continue to work after becoming pregnant and around 250,000 return to work after having their baby
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Learning outcomes
- Understand the need for risk assessments to be performed when you find out an employee is expecting
- Learn what you must consider when carrying out a risk assessment
- Understand the rights surrounding maternity/paternity leave, pay and maternity allowance
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Course contents
This training course is broken down into 3 sections
- 1Risk Assessments for New & Expectant Mothers
- 2Workplace Risks
- 3Equality and Employment Law
Section 1
In this section we look at the two stages of risk assessment which should be done. Firstly a generic risk assessment – which is done for all employees, but must cover new and expectant mothers, regardless of whether an organisation has any. And the second stage of risk assessment – assessment after notification, which is all about re-visiting the generic risk assessment after a woman has notified her manager that she’s pregnant.
Section 2
This section concentrates on the four main areas which must be considered in a risk assessment to take account of new and expectant mothers – physical factors – including manual handling and seating, biological hazards – for example illnesses and bacteria, chemical hazards, such as working with lead or mercury; and working conditions – which includes working hours, travelling and work environment.
Section 3
This section covers maternity rights, such as maternity leave, maternity pay and maternity allowance. It looks at redundancy, paternity leave, adoption, surrogacy arrangements and returning to work. It refers to the Equality Act in connection with discrimination.
About this course
It’s important that the workplace is safe for everyone but special consideration must be made for the safety of new and expectant mothers at work.
Every year around 350,000 women in the UK continue to work after becoming pregnant and around 250,000 return to work after having their baby.
This New & Expectant Mothers Training Course has been designed to be used by employers, managers, expectant mothers and women returning to work after having a baby. It looks at the increased risks that pregnant women and new mothers may face and it looks at dealing with these risks in practical terms in the workplace.
It also looks at the risk assessments that need to be carried out and looks further into maternity rights, leave, pay and maternity allowance – all things that need to be considered.
In 2016 the Citizens Advice Bureau reported that it had seen a 58% increase in maternity leave queries in just 2 years – Take a look at the 10 most common examples of workplace maternity discrimination and make sure you avoid any similar scenarios with our New and Expectant Mothers at Work Training.
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This New and Expectant Mothers at Work – Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires 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.
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Your New and Expectant Mothers at Work 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.
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For before going off on maternity
Ok, long but informative. Needs to be done before you go off on maternity leave or as soon as HR know you are pregnant. I have been back to work 6 weeks so this was just a waste of 53 minutes of my working day.
Easy to follow
Lots of info but easy to follow. Good questions at the end to help you to complete.
Course is out of date with new legislation
Please update with new Flexible Working legislation and new Paternity Leave legislation
Useful for the most part
The course was good in terms of providing an overview of maternity rights and employers' obligations. But there was quite a bit of time spent on giving advice to women who are pregnant (ie stay hydrated, take 30 min breaks) that wasn't relevant to the course. Some of the advice was so basic it bordered on silly – as in "mobile phones can be helpful" in allowing a pregnant woman to call for help when working alone. In short, the course, whose primary objective is to provide information about pregnant women's rights in the workplace and an employer's responsibility and obligations, could have been shorter. There are plenty of other resources out there for women who are pregnant or plan on becoming pregnant to consult with regards to dealing with the physical and emotional effects of pregnancy.
Not applicable to all employees
While this session was very thorough in subject matter, I don’t think as a U.S. male employee that this amount of material was necessary to convey the basics of women’s maternity rights and pregnancy conditions.
Was interesting to learn about paternity leave and individuals who adopt
This is good course for all individuals to be made aware off. This would give a better understanding of all different accepts of New and Expectant Mothers.
Overall a good course however outdated for new government policies
Statutory pay rates quoted on the course were outdated along with paternity leave entitlements as these have changed over the last year.
not sure I need an hour long course to c
not sure I need an hour long course to cover a subject that is common sense apart from the "numbers"
Why is this 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 Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations 1999
The Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations came into force on the 15th of December, 1999. This legislation makes it clear that expectant parents are legally entitled to parental leave and provides more information on:
- Unfair dismissals
- Extent of entitlement
- Protection from detriment and discrimination
- Pay
- Contractual rights
(1) An employee is entitled to ordinary maternity leave provided that she satisfies the following conditions—
(a) At least 21 days before the date on which she intends her ordinary maternity leave period to start, or, if that is not reasonably practicable, as soon as is reasonably practicable, she notifies her employer of—
(i) Her pregnancy;
(ii) The expected week of childbirth, and
(iii) The date on which she intends her ordinary maternity leave period to start,
and
(b) If requested to do so by her employer, she produces for his inspection a certificate from—(i) A registered medical practitioner, or
(ii) A registered midwife,
stating the expected week of childbirth.
Business benefits
This New & Expectant Mothers at Work Training provides you with the tools you need to make the workplace safer for pregnant women and women returning to work after giving birth.
It considers the many risks faced by new and expectant, helping you deal with them in a practical way so that you can stay legally compliant. It also covers maternity rights, leave, pay, and maternity allowance, providing you with the information you need to avoid workplace maternity discrimination which often increases staff turnover and can lead to employment tribunal claims.
