Summary
This module introduces you to important aspects of fire safety in the workplace. It will take about 30 minutes to complete and includes a short assessment to check your understanding.
Summary
Lighting can completely
transform a kitchen beyond the practical benefits. It can create ambience, a
brighter, more spacious and multi-dimensional feel, and highlight design
features. This module looks at what to consider when choosing lighting, how to
light different areas and the types of lighting available. It concludes by
looking at the specific benefits of LED technology and a short Knowledge Check.
Course Overview
Cases of Legionnaires’ disease, caused by legionella bacteria, are fortunately rare. However, when they occur, they can be fatal to vulnerable people and expensive to organisations and to individual managers.To meet your obligations under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations (2002), the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (1999) and the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) you need to have assessed the risk from your water systems, including hot and cold water, evaporative cooling and other plant such as vehicle washers and irrigation equipment. You need to have a written scheme which describes what competent people are doing to manage the risks. Even if someone is tasked with simply running the taps once a week, they should understand why this could be a vital part of keeping people safe.
This course outlines typical water management tasks, and helps employees understand why each task is important. As well as looking at what happens when organisations do not safely manage their water systems, employees will be shown how the jobs they have been asked to do will break the chain of events that can lead to a death from Legionnaires’ disease.
Course Objectives
In this training course employees will learn:
- About the conditions which encourage legionella bacteria growth and its impact on human health
- About different types of water systems and typical water management tasks
- About the importance of recording water management tasks in a site diary
- When to seek advice
Benefits to your organisation
- Reduce risks from water systems by making sure employees understand the importance of water management tasks and their role in controlling legionella bacteria
- Improve your ability to defend yourself in the event of an outbreak by explaining to employees the necessity for following a written scheme and accurately documenting water management tasks
- Provides records of training and testing of knowledge as part of your legal duty to provide employees with suitable and sufficient information, instruction, and training
Target Audience
Any employees required to carry out water management tasks
Summary
This Manual Handling training guidance provides the necessary information and training for staff to understand more about the risks associated with manual handling, how to undertake a risk assessment and how to ensure appropriate control measures are put in place.
Manual handling accidents account for more than a third of all accidents reported each year to the enforcing authorities Back injuries are the biggest cause of staff absence in the UK and yet most are preventable! Manual handling training is a legal requirement in any situation where your staff are required to do any lifting, lowering, pulling or pushing that carries any level of risk. Most work environments employ people who need to use some form of manual handling.
Target Staff
The course is aimed at any staff who may undertake manual handling tasks, including the transporting of a load by lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving, either by hand or by bodily force.
Who is it for?
- Yard, warehouse and office staff
- Those involved in unloading and loading of vehicles
- Those handling and distributing deliveries and stock
- Front line staff handling customer purchases and goods
What you'll learn
- Common manual handling injuries
- Activities that constitute manual handling
- Employer and employee responsibilities
- Assessing and reducing risk
- Correct handling procedures and techniques
- Use of mechanical aids
- Manual handling laws and guidance
- The need for record keeping
Course Benefits
This concise 20 minute manual handling training course is a superb way to show your staff how to identify risk and work safely at all times. Once completed your staff will be able to identify their manual handling activities and know the correct techniques and equipment to use. They’ll understand their own and their employer's responsibilities in relation to manual handling. Importantly, they will know how to protect their backs and to move loads with safety and confidence. Your business will also be protected from costly absenteeism and litigation, and the risk of short or long-term back injuries is greatly reduced.
Summary
All work at height must be planned and organised, with the risks properly assessed. Those involved must be competent, with an understanding of the appropriate equipment to use.
This module covers the basics to ensure safe Working at Height and should take about 15 minutes to complete.
Summary
In this module, we are going to look at the safe and correct way of using a workstation, including how you should set up your workstation to avoid any potential injury or discomfort and the correct posture you should adopt at your workstation. Finally there will be a short assessment to help you measure your understanding.