Workplace Essentials: Health and Safety

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Course overview

Provider
Futurelearn
Course type
Free trial availiable
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Course author
Andrew Cumiskey

Description

Discover the principles of health and safety in the workplace with this informative two week course.
Learn about general health and safety in the workplace in a post COVID-19 world

With additional information on infection control to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, this health and safety course offers the perfect combination of subjects to induct or refresh employees, associates, and visitors to preventing injuries and accidents in the workplace.

You’ll learn about manual handling in the workplace, fire safety awareness and infection control on this 3 CPD accredited course.

Discover the correct procedures for manual handling

You’ll list employer and employee’s responsibilities and will identify ways to stop accidents and injuries from occurring in the workplace.

You’ll also learn about manual handling and decipher the correct ways of lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving loads.

Identify the principles of fire safety

As well as recognising fire safety signs, you’ll understand how to raise the alarm and how to best evacuate a building safely.

You’ll also get to grips with the benefits of having risk assessments within the workplace.

Get to know infection control methods in a COVID-19 world

COVID-19 has changed the way we work for the foreseeable future. You’ll learn how the workplace needs to adapt to prevent infection control, as well as PPE (personal protective equipment) requirements for the workplace.

Workplace Essentials: Health and Safety
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