Slips, Trips and Falls Prevention

Slips, Trips and Falls Prevention

This Slips, Trips and Falls training programme is designed to ensure all staff understand why slips, trips and falls happen and what they can do to reduce this risk and avoid incidents of the most common workplace accidents. one of our most popular courses to date!

37% of all reported workplace injuries are a result of a slip, trip or fall.

Learning outcomes

• Understand and work towards compliance with The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Learn about slip and trip mapping
• Learn about what your responsibilities are to ensure workplaces are free from hazards where possible

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

1. Responsibilities
2. Slips & Trips
3. Falls

About this course

This Trips and Falls Training Course is designed to give you all the information you need to effectively recognise and control the risks from slip, trip and fall hazards in your workplace.

This particular slip and fall training prevention programme is for everyone – employers, safety representatives and employees – because after all, anyone can have a workplace accident.

Taking around 30 minutes to complete, slips, trips and fall prevention training attention on awareness, prevention and personal responsibility; as well as providing clear steps of how to identify and endeavour to minimise this kind of risk in a variety of work environments.

This slips, trips and falls training course also looks at the steps involved in putting appropriate measures in place to help prevent this kind of accident occurring.

The HSE report that around 29% of workplace injuries are due to slips, trips and falls (on same level) and falls from height accounting for 8%. In 2018/19 there for 40 deaths caused by falls from height.

This Slips, Trips and Falls Prevention Training Course is one of our most popular courses and can be used in conjunction with our Spill Kit Training.

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.

In line with the stipulations of the broader Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, that calls for adequate training and provisions for the health and safety of all employees, this kind of training ensures employers are fulfilling their duty to protect staff from avoidable accidents:

It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable –

1. i) the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees
2. ii) the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees;

iii) the provision and maintenance of a working environment for his employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work.

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Section 2 (1)

Safety in the Workplace

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has stated that Statistics show slipping and tripping to be the single most common cause of major injury in UK workplaces and they are often the initiators of accidents attributed to other causes, such as some machinery accidents, scalding and falls from height.

Important Slips, Trips and Falls Statistics:

The following slip trip and falls stat is from HSE

Slip trips and falls made up 30% of 61,713 Employee non-fatal injuries reported by employers in 2021/22 (RIDDOR)

Why is it important to prevent slips and falls?

This shows that slips trips and falls training is important as it can result in substantial time off work. The more time off work the more money you lose. Also if the employee didn’t receive adequate training they may have the right to a liability claim, showing why it is important to give staff slip and fall training to all employees.

Having employees able to carry out a slips and trips risk assessment and able to identify potential hazards will keep your business safe from any penalties or consequences.

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