Essential Health and Safety

Essential Health and Safety 

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. 

Over 30 million working days are lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury each year.

Learning outcomes

• Identify key health and safety laws and understand how to comply with them
• Recognise a range of risk prevention methods, including those relating to manual handling, fire hazards and display screen equipment
• Identify safety signage in the workplace
• List step-by-step procedures to follow in different types of emergency

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 2 sections

1. The Hazards
2. Health and safety responsibilities

Health and Safety Essentials training explained

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 Health and Safety Training helps build knowledge and understanding around essential Health and Safety aspects in the workplace.

Our Health and Safety Essentials training covers:

• How to recognise and avoid hazards and risks at work
• Minimising illness and absenteeism
• Tips on how to reduce workplace accidents
• The roles and responsibilities of employers and employees
• Legal requirements and compliance with legislation
• An overview of different safety signs in the workplace and what they mean
• How to develop stringent emergency procedures
• Fire awareness for all staff
• What to do if somebody slips or falls at work?
• Best practices for DSE measures.
• Manual handling techniques.
• COSHH procedures.
• Electrical safety measures

Our Health & Safety training can be completed in one go or it can be done in bite-size chunks – whatever suits you. Our online system is designed so that you cna pick up exactly where you left off, offering a convenient delivery to complete all modules at a time and place that suits you.

Available in 40 languages