CIEH Health & Safety in the Workplace

About the course

This training programme has been designed to provide essential knowledge and understanding of health and safety for employees working in any sector of business, whether manufacturing, commerce, public sector or the service industries. Good health and safety standards rely on employers and employees working together to reduce risks and prevent accidents and ill health arising from work activities.

Employers have a responsibility to provide safe and healthy workplace conditions as well as safe systems and methods for workplace activities. An essential element of any safe system is the knowledge and attitude of employees, and this demands proper training in the basics of health and safety, as well as specitic training for individual tasks.

The foundation certificate in health and safety in the workplace respresents the foundation of knowledge required by everyone. A further range of Certificated Health and Safety courses covering Manual Handling, COSHH and Stress Awareness are also available.

Aims

The foundation certificate in health and safety aims to provide employees with health and safety understanding which will enable them to contribute to any health and safety management system.

In particular the programme will enable the student to:

• Work in a safe and healthy manner and contribute to health and safety within an organisations policy.
• Identify key hazards in their own workplace.
• Understand the importance of health and safety rules and working procedures.
• Report potential health and safety problems.
• Be responsible for their own actions.

Course information

Designed For	Teaching Time	Exam Format
Appropriate for all employees	Minimum 6 hours	30 multiple choice questions