Health and Safety, Business & Management
Safety At Work
Assessment type
Training only (attendance)
Minimum duration
34 Minutes
Course delivery
E-learning
Description
The Safety at Work eLearning course provides learners with an understanding of general workplace health and safety principles and the role everyone plays in maintaining a safe working environment.
The course explores common workplace hazards, risk management, safe working practices and individual health and safety responsibilities. Learners will consider how to recognise and report hazards, follow appropriate control measures and respond to incidents and emergencies in the workplace.
Who Should Attend?
- Employees at all levels.
- New starters requiring general workplace health and safety awareness.
- Employees undertaking a workplace induction.
- Managers and supervisors.
- Employees working across office, agricultural, industrial, retail or other workplace environments.
- Anyone requiring a general understanding of workplace health and safety principles.
What You Will Learn
- The importance of health and safety at work.
- Understanding individual workplace health and safety responsibilities.
- Recognising the responsibilities of employers and employees.
- Understanding the difference between hazards and risks.
- Recognising common workplace hazards.
- The importance of workplace risk assessments.
- Following appropriate control measures and safe systems of work.
- Maintaining good workplace housekeeping.
- Preventing slips, trips and falls.
- Awareness of manual handling hazards.
- Recognising risks associated with workplace equipment and machinery.
- Awareness of electrical hazards.
- Understanding basic fire safety precautions.
- Maintaining clear emergency exits and escape routes.
- Understanding workplace emergency and evacuation arrangements.
- Awareness of hazardous substances and appropriate controls.
- Understanding the role of personal protective equipment.
- Using PPE correctly where required.
- Recognising workplace noise and other environmental hazards.
- Awareness of working at height risks.
- Recognising risks associated with workplace vehicles and traffic.
- Understanding the importance of appropriate information, instruction and training.
- Recognising the limits of individual training and competence.
- Reporting hazards, defects and unsafe conditions.
- Understanding the importance of reporting accidents and incidents.
- Recognising the value of reporting near misses.
- Knowing when work should be stopped or concerns escalated.
- Following workplace health and safety policies and procedures.
- Contributing to a positive workplace health and safety culture.
Course Delivery
This course is delivered as self-directed eLearning through the ELMO learning platform.
Learners can work through the course at their own pace and can move backwards and forwards through the learning content as required. The course does not need to be completed in one sitting, allowing learners to leave and return to their training where necessary.
Interactive activities may be included throughout the course to reinforce key learning points.
Assessment
Knowledge and understanding are checked through online assessment activities. Depending on the course content, these may include multiple-choice questions, matching exercises, drag-and-drop activities and image-based questions.
A minimum score of 70% is required to successfully complete the course.
Certification
Upon successful completion of the course and assessment requirements, learners will receive a UK Rural Skills (UKRS) Accredited Certificate of Training.
This is a general awareness-based eLearning course and does not replace workplace-specific risk assessments, inductions, safe systems of work or any practical, task-specific or equipment-specific training required for an individual's role.
Course Duration
The course is self-directed and learners can progress through the content at their own pace. Completion time may therefore vary depending on the individual learner.
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