Description
Welcome to the Halo Staffing eLearning course on Health, Safety and Wellbeing. In this course we will teach you everything you’ll need to know to look after the health, safety, and wellbeing of yourself and the individuals you work with.
We will begin with looking at why an organisation should care about health, safety, and wellbeing, and the commitments that they have.
From there, we’ll move on to looking at the ways that you should act around safety and health that are in line with all of the relevant legislation, policies, and procedures.
Following that, we’ll look at how you can find out how your organisation talks to their employees on any health and safety matters.
The fourth section will be on how to find the policies that your organisation has put in place around health and safety.
After that, we’ll look at what the terms hazard, risk, and risk assessment all mean.
We will also look at some common workplace hazards.
From there, we’ll move on to looking at how any risks that you have identified can be managed.
What safe working practices are, and how to apply and promote them within your role, will be the next section covered.
The ninth section will be on actions that you can take to ensure the safety of patients within your workplace.
From there, we’ll move onto recognising the importance of reporting any concerns that you may have around health and safety.
Following that will be the section on the reporting processes used to gather information.
The second to last section will contain information on the appropriate methods to raise health and safety concerns.
Finally, we’ll look at your responsibilities in reporting incidents, ill health, and near misses.
You can view the introduction video for the Health, Safety and Welfare course below.
Is this for me?
This course has been carefully designed for Carers, Support Workers, Nurses, and Managers who want to learn more about health, safety, and welfare. As specialists in providing staffing solutions Halo Staffing’s courses are relevant for many industries including health and social care for carers, support workers, nurses and managers. Completing this course will ensure that you are fully up to date with relevant content to provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to excel in your field. On successful completion of this course, you will be issued with a certificate and digital badge valid for 1 year.
Why should I take this course?
You should take this course if it’s necessary for you or your team to keep and protect people from harm and abuse. Keeping in line with Skills for Care and the key legislation such as the Health and Safety at Work Act, the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013, the The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 2002.
What will I learn?
This course will provide you and/or your team with an understanding of why an organisation should care about health, safety, and welfare, the relevant legislation, how your organisation should talk to you about it, how to find any policies surrounding the topic, what hazards, risks, and risk assessments are, some common workplace hazards, managing risks, safe working practices, the safety of patients, and reporting any health, safety and welfare concerns.
Course Duration: 1 to 2 hours.
