The IOSH Working Safely course covers all the essentials of health and safety in the workplace in a jargon-free engaging manner. This industry-leading one-day course can be delivered by one of our IOSH accredited instructors anywhere in the UK, either at one of our training centres or on your premises.
Anyone, this entry-level course has been designed to provide employees across your business with a basic knowledge of health and safety to enable them to work safely and effectively. The Working Safely course also fulfils the employer’s obligation to provide adequate training for health and safety awareness to minimise the hazards and risks employees may face in the workplace.
This course is made up of 4 modules focusing on providing you with knowledge of general workplace hazards and why health and safety is so important to employee well-being. To complete this course, you must pass a multiple-choice assessment consisting of 10 questions and a hazard-spotting exercise.
Who should attend this course?
What is covered in the IOSH Working Safely course?
Course Overview:
This course is split into 4 modules:
- Introducing working safely
- Defining hazard and risk
- Identifying common hazards
- Improving safety performance
Course Content:
- What is “health and safety”
- Accident theory
- The legal, financial and moral reasons to work safely
- The 5-step risk assessment process
- How to identify, prevent and control a host of workplace hazards
- Health and Safety Management System: Plan – Do – Check – Act
- The health and safety responsibilities of contractors, safety representatives, individuals and enforcement officers
- Systems and procedures including safe systems of work, PPE, emergency procedures, safety signs, Permit-to-Work, first aid arrangements and accident reporting