One-Day Health and Safety Awareness Training Course
This one-day course is designed to help those who are about to or have just begun work in industry to understand the potential hazards they face on site. It provides a practical summary of health, safety, welfare and environmental issues, identifying the delegate’s responsibility for looking after themselves and others; outlines they employer’s duties; and explains what should be done if the worker thinks that anyone’s health and safety is being put at risk. The course is an ideal foundation for those wishing to obtain an industry accreditation card. The course is also an alternative route to the QCF Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment for the CSCS Labourer Card.
Aims and objectivesThe course aims to ensure that ...
Aims and objectivesThe course aims to ensure that individual responsiblities are understood:
- why they are carrying out their identified duties
- what is expected of them
- how they contribute to the safety of the workplace
At the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- understand the need to prevent accidents
- have an understanding of health and safety law
- identify how their role fits into the control and management of the site
- understand the need for risk assessments and method statements
- appreciate the need to perform safely, and to stop and ask for advise if not sure
- report unsafe acts to prevent an accident
Course content
- general responsibilities
- accident prevention and recording
- health and welfare
- dust and fumes (Respiratory risks)
- manual handling
- work at height
- personal protective equipment (PPE)
- first aid and emergency procedures
- fire prevention and control
- hazardous substances
- electrical safety and hand-held tools and equipment
- noise and vibration
- site transport safety
- excavations and confined spaces
- safety signs and signal
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
- All delegates are required to bring some form of photographic identification along on the day of the course. Where identification evidence is not provided by a delegate, they will be refused attendance on the course.
- All delegates attending the course are to have a good understanding of spoken and written English.
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