Introduction to Health and Safety in the Workplace
Accidents cause pain and suffering to victims and anxiety to families. In order to prevent accidents to persons and property, the implementation of good health and safety procedures in the workplace are necessary.
This course is an introduction to health and safety in the workplace and has been designed to teach students the rules and procedures of health and safety and how to implement those rules and procedures in the workplace.
Health and Safety is not a “once and for all” exercise but an ongoing and developing activity.
The course syllabus includes:
- United Kingdom legal system
- Health & safety in the civil system
- Health & safety in the criminal system
- Health & safety at Work Act 1974
- Health & safety policies
- Enforcement
- Risk assessments
- Accident reporting
- Accident investigation
- The use of personal protection equiptment
- Display screen equiptment and other industry specific topics