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The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations require the employers of non-food and food businesses to provide whatever information, instruction and training needed to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of their employees. Telephone 0845 609 6006 for free health and safety advice. Visit the Health and Safety page for information.
Owners, managers and staff in voluntary organisations and community groups, landlords, students and residents, and anyone working in retail, manufacturing, wholesale, offices, food businesses, health and social care, education and childcare services, and local authorities, will all benefit from these courses. In addition see the Public Health Courses page.
Work accidents and ill health can be expensive to emplyers. In 2006/07 there were 19 fatal injuries to workers in London, 2,626 reported major injuries to employees and 12,050 over-3-day injuries to employees. In 2006/07 it is estimated that, in London, 223,000 people suffered from an illness which they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.
Preventing accidents can save you time and money. The smaller your business the bigger the impact will be if a member of your staff has a serious accident, or is off sick for an extended period of time. It could even put you out of business. If you still need convincing visit www.hse.gov.uk/shatteredlives and www.hse.gov.uk/betterbusiness and consider the following:
Look after yourself, your colleagues, and customers so that no one has to look after you or them. Uninsured costs outweigh those covered by insurance policies by as much as 10:1. Sick-pay, damage or loss of product and materials, repairs to plant and equipment, overtime working and temporary staff, production delays, investigation time and fines are NOT covered by insurance. A lack of proper training, instruction, supervision and information can lead to ignorance of safe working practices and a complacent attitude.
Visit the Training for Food, Health and Safety page for further information, or call us on: 020 7361 3002.
If any of the courses below are full, or there is not currently a planned date, a waiting list will be kept until there are enough students to make running the next course worthwhile. In-house courses can sometimes be arranged. You may be given advice about contacting alternative centres or examination bodies for help.
Subject to demand workshops, briefing sessions or seminars about; developing workplace safety cultures; slips, trips and falls; asthma and dermatitis at work; asbestos; work-related stress; working from heights; and, Legionella, cellar hatch safety, etc may be organised. These are for various sectors of business organisations and forums. Please ask for more details.
A one to two hour course especially for social services and healthcare employees in the private and public sectors is available. Covers hazards associated with lone working, communication, and basic risk assessment. This is a non-accredited course.
Half to one day courses covering the causes of workplace fires and their prevention; what to do when discovering a fire, raising the alarm and evacuation; and, the role of fire marshals. These are non-accredited courses.
A short talk discussing HMO licensing, the HHSRS guidance, fire safety requirements, matters relevant to the likelihood of a fire and responsibilities of the Fire Brigade. Attendees may be eligible for a discount on their HMO licence upon completion of this course. This course is not accredited.
A one hour presentation to discuss health and safety topics specific to the hotel sector. This includes slips and trips, dermatitis, legionella and asbestos. Managers and their staff are encouraged to attend. In-house presentations are available. This course is not accredited.
A one hour presentation to discuss health and safety topics specific to the retail sector. This includes slips and trips, manual handling, working at heights and asbestos. Managers and their staff are encouraged to attend. In-house presentations are available. This course is not accredited.
Specific courses lasting 1 to 2 hours for all types of businesses covering the essential issues of better health and safety in the workplace.
Specific short course covering safety issues regarding cellar hatches, training, risk assessment, etc.
This course provides employees with a general health and safety understanding. It covers legal responsibilities, basic risk assessment, accident prevention, workplace safety and occupational health. It can be tailored to business and individual needs to make the learning experience relevant and fit for purpose. Why not do this and a Risk Assessment Course?
This course is designed to enable learners to understand the basic principles of risk assessment. This qualification will therefore give all employees the ability to contribute to the process and act always to protect their own health and safety and that of others. Do this one a Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace course!
The course enables employees to contribute to the development of safer manual handling methods and tasks. Introduces candidates to the hazards and risks involved in manual handling and outlines what to expect from a manual handling assessment. It will enable employees to develop safer manual handling techniques in the workplace.
This prepares employees to contribute to the safer use of hazardous substances (such as cleaning chemicals, bacteria, asbestos). This qualification is designed for those who use substances hazardous to health at work. It introduces candidates to substances, the risks and controls available, and outlines what to expect from a control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH) assessment. The qualification will prepare employees to contribute to the safer use of hazardous substances in their workplaces.
This is a useful introduction to the issue of work-related stress. This qualification raises awareness of the likely sources of work-related stress. It is aimed at general workers and also serves as an introduction to the issue for more senior staff. The qualification will enable employees to contribute to strategies which combat work-related stress.
This is a course covering legislation, working environment, resolving confrontational situations and personal safety. This will help organisations protect their staff as well as their organisational and operation effectiveness.
This course looks at health and safety from a supervisory perspective. This qualification will enable managers and supervisors to improve the health and safety culture of their organisation, whatever its size or activity. (Formerly called the Intermediate Certificate in Supervising Health and Safety in the Workplace.) Follow this with the Level 4 course. A stress awareness course may also be helpful.
Employers and the self employed have a legal duty to assess health and safety risks. Anyone carrying out a risk assessment needs to have the necessary knowledge and skills. This qualification ensures that supervisors and managers have the necessary depth of understanding to enable them to carry out risk assessments.
This course looks at health and safety from a managerial perspective. This qualification will enable managers and potential health and safety trainers to understand more in depth issues relating to health and safety in the workplace. (Formerly called the Advanced Certificate in Health and Safety in the Workplace.)
Certain listed above courses are only run subject to viable candidate numbers and trainer availability. If you do not see a public health, health and safety or food safety course listed or suitable training intervention call 020 7341 5606 to ask for advice.
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