Business & Management, Health and Safety
Safety Awareness
Assessment type
Training only (attendance)
Minimum duration
30 Minutes
Course delivery
E-learning
Description
The Safety Awareness eLearning course provides learners with an understanding of general workplace safety principles and the importance of recognising and responding appropriately to hazards and unsafe conditions.
The course explores common workplace hazards, individual safety responsibilities and the practical measures that can help reduce the likelihood of accidents and injuries. Learners will consider how their actions and behaviours contribute to workplace safety, including following procedures, using appropriate controls and reporting hazards, incidents and concerns.
Who Should Attend?
- Employees at all levels.
- New starters requiring general safety awareness.
- Employees undertaking a workplace induction.
- Employees working across a range of workplace environments.
- Managers and supervisors.
- Contractors requiring general workplace safety awareness.
- Anyone requiring a general understanding of safe workplace behaviours and responsibilities.
What You Will Learn
- The importance of workplace safety.
- Understanding individual responsibilities for working safely.
- Recognising the role everyone plays in preventing accidents and injuries.
- Understanding the difference between hazards and risks.
- Recognising common workplace hazards.
- Maintaining awareness of the surrounding working environment.
- Identifying and reporting unsafe conditions.
- Understanding the importance of workplace risk assessments.
- Following established control measures and safe working procedures.
- Maintaining good housekeeping standards.
- Recognising common slip, trip and fall hazards.
- Awareness of manual handling risks.
- Recognising hazards associated with workplace tools and equipment.
- Awareness of electrical safety.
- Understanding basic fire and emergency safety principles.
- Awareness of hazardous substances.
- Understanding the purpose of personal protective equipment.
- Using required PPE appropriately.
- Recognising risks associated with vehicles and workplace traffic.
- Awareness of working at height hazards.
- Recognising the importance of safety signs and warnings.
- Following instructions and workplace safety information.
- Recognising the limits of individual training and competence.
- Avoiding unsafe shortcuts and unnecessary risk-taking.
- Understanding the importance of stopping and reassessing when conditions change.
- Reporting damaged or defective equipment.
- Reporting accidents and incidents appropriately.
- Understanding the importance of reporting near misses.
- Knowing when concerns should be escalated.
- Contributing to positive safety behaviours within the workplace.
- Supporting a positive workplace 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 induction, risk assessments, 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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