Essential Health and Safety Training - Online Learning

Everyone in your workplace is legally required to have Health and Safety Training, and this course provides the perfect introduction to Health and Safety - whether as an induction tool, refresher, or for people changing roles within your organisation.

This 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, personal protective equipment 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.

Learning outcomes

• Gain a better understanding of the Health and Safety at Work Act and your legal 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

SECTION 1

This section looks at who is responsible for health and safety at work. It ensures that everyone is aware that they share the responsibility - they have a duty to themselves, to their colleagues and to their workplace. It highlights the importance of training and communication.

SECTION 2

A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm and a risk is the likelihood of that harm happening. Here we look at what those risks might be in the workplace, we look at risk assessments and safe working. The section is split into subsections, each covering one or more different areas of risk.

SECTION 3

In this section we look at the different types of safety signboards - prohibition signs, warning signs, mandatory signs, safe conditions signs and fire safety signs. We look at fire action signs and we also include COSHH safety signs (which use the CLP pictograms from the GHS system of Classification and labelling of chemicals).

SECTION 4

Here we look at what to do if things go wrong. We cover Workplace First Aid Kits and Accident Books for accident and injury reporting and we cover a worst-case scenario, looking at calling the emergency services.