Health and Safety Awareness

This course is designed for employees.  The course serves as one way to improve safety performance by providing employees with the knowledge needed to enhance workplace health and safety.

On completion of the online Health and Safety Awareness course learners will know:

• Health and safety legislation
• Common workplace hazards
• The role of risk assessments
• Know common health and safety systems
• Understand staff responsibilities with respect to safety
• Adopt best practice behaviours

Health is about protect people from ill-health at work.  For example, ill-health can result from exposure to harmful substances like asbestos  and everyday activities like using a computer.

Safety refers to protecting people from injury from accidents.  For example, falling from height or slipping on a wet floor.

Health and Safety must be discussed and managed at all levels of the organisation. Health and Safety must be given at least equal priority and resources as other core functions.

Failure to manage Health and Safety effectively could harm those who work for you and cost your organisation.

In short, the 3 benefits of health and safety training are moral, legal and financial.

Echo3 training helps employees understand the risks associated with their jobs and how to avoid them, leading to fewer injuries.  Incidents cannot be entirely avoided but the potential consequences can be devastating (UK Workplace Fatalities HSE). 

So first and foremost, employers have a moral responsibility to ensure staff receive appropriate training.  This is also a legal responsibility.

Fewer accidents also means lower costs.  For example from lost productivity, compensation claims, and damaged reputation.

So it vital for employers to provide appropriate training to staff on all the workplace hazards they face.

Health and Safety Management can be thought of as achieving a workplace that is free from unacceptable risks of harm. It requires a structured and systematic approach to achieve success.

Effective safety management will remove unsafe acts and conditions from the workplace.  Examples include;

Unsafe Acts or Behaviours

• Lack of training/understanding
• Lack of supervision/management
• Not wearing PPE
• Horseplay
• Procedures not enforced
• Safeguards removed
• Health problems
• Poor communication
• Procedures ignored
• Procedures not known

Unsafe conditions

• Trailing house/cables
• Slip/trip hazards
• Dangerous machines
• Poor housekeeping
• Lighting
• Temperature
• Noise
• Dust/fumes
• Lack of space
• Falling/flying objects

No, the Echo3 HSE Awareness course will not help you get your CSCS card.