The Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace is a one-day course aimed at providing individuals with the knowledge required to ensure a safe and healthy working environment. The course covers the duties of both employers and employees regarding health, safety, and welfare, and the consequences of non-compliance with health and safety legislation. Participants will learn about training and competence requirements, how to communicate health and safety information effectively, and the definitions of hazard and risk. The course includes training on carrying out risk assessments, identifying hazards, and understanding how hazards can cause harm to people, processes, and the environment. It also covers the risk control hierarchy and provides examples of risk controls for common workplace hazards. Further, the course addresses the causes of workplace accidents and ill health, the actions to take following an incident, emergency procedures, and the importance of recording all incidents and accidents. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the skills to promote a safer working environment.
Course Content:
- Recognise employers’ and employees’ duties relating to health, safety, and welfare at work.
- Identify the consequences for non-compliance with health and safety legislation.
- Identify the requirements for training and competence in the workplace.
- Recognise the ways in which health and safety information can be communicated.
- Recognise the definitions of ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’.
- Identify the process for carrying out a risk assessment.
- Recognise how risk assessment can be used to reduce accidents and ill health at work.
- Identify the hazards that may be found in a range of workplaces.
- Recognise how hazards can cause harm or damage to people, work processes, the workplace, and the environment.
- Recognise the principle of the risk control hierarchy.
- Identify examples of risk controls for common workplace hazards.
- Recognise the common causes of workplace accidents and ill health.
- Identify the actions that might need to be taken following an incident in the workplace.
- Identify the arrangements that should be in place in a workplace for emergencies and first aid.
- Recognise why it is important to record all incidents, accidents, and ill health.