Health and Safety Essentials
Duration: 45 minutes
This course includes a range of learning activities to help you develop your understanding of health and safety. When you’ve finished the course, you’ll be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing a short assessment.
Objectives
By the end of the course you should be able to:
Recognise why health and safety is important for individuals, employers and society as a whole
Understand the frameworks of health and safety legislation
Recognise the responsibilities your employer has for your health and safety
Use a range of health and safety techniques and good practice to help keep yourself safe at work (and beyond!)
Topics
Health and safety problems
Health and Safety at Work Act
Government’s responsibilities
Risk assessment and reduction
Safe systems of work
Accident reporting
Lifting and carrying
Personal safety
Aggressive behaviour
Working with computers