Health and Safety

Overview

Health and safety is about preventing people from being harmed while at work, or becoming ill through work.

While some professions may be more at risk of health and safety incidents, the truth is everyone in all types of roles have a role to play in ensuring health and safety practices are a normal part of day to day work. Health and safety is the responsibility of everyone within an organisation.

This e-learning course sets out to provide the basic principles of health and safety. It creates an awareness of key health and safety principles and highlights the risks that are prevalent in the workplace, explaining both what the risks are as well as what should be done to avoid and remove them. It also describes what should be done when accidents occur and the measures that should be put in place to avoid them happening again.

Objectives

• Describe the extent of health and safety accidents at work
• Explain their responsibilities and the responsibilities of their employers
• Say why health and safety training at work is important
• Explain what a hazard is and the different ways of dealing with them
• Describe how risk is assessed and managed
• Explain why reporting accidents and near misses is important
• Describe the reporting steps to take if there is an accident
• Have a general understanding of work-based areas of health and safety

Audience

Essential health and safety training for all.