Course overview:

The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health’s Working safely meets the government's guidelines for introductory health and safety training and is a 100 per cent match to the Health and Safety Executive's 'passport' syllabus.

Learning aims:

To provide learners with an understanding of how their actions in the workplace contribute to safety and health. To ensure that learners clearly understand their safety and health responsibilities.

Learning outcomes:

The learner will be able to:

1 Identify why it is important to work safely.

2 Identify everyone’s responsibilities in relation to safety, health and wellbeing in the workplace.

3 Define key terms in safety and health.

4 Identify workplace hazards and risks, their impact and how to control them.

5 Identify ways safety, health and wellbeing are managed and improved within the workplace.