Health and Safety Awareness Course
This online Health and Safety Awareness course has been designed to provide staff with a general understanding of how to work safely and their safety responsibilities towards both employers and colleagues.
Health and Safety Management is a legal requirement and can be thought of as achieving a workplace free from unacceptable risks. To achieve success, it requires a structured and systematic approach which includes appropriate training.
The UK has relatively safe workplaces but there is always scope for improvement. For the period of April 2023 to March 2024 there were 138 fatal and 61,663 non-fatal work-related injuries to employees (reported under RIDDOR) and 1.7 million workers reported ill-health because of work.
Echo3’s fully accredited, online Health and Safety Awareness course is appropriate for all staff and has been created to help improve workplace safety by providing employees with the knowledge needed to work safely.
This general course works well alongside training targeted at specific hazards identified by your risk assessment. For example, Working at Height, Hazardous Substances, Fire Safety or Driving for Work.
The training is appropriate for all workplaces. For offices & warehouses we have specific courses.
HSE Awareness Course Content
UNIT 1 | HSE MANAGEMENT
We begin by introducing why for moral, financial and legal reasons effective health and safety management requires shared responsibilities.
UNIT 2 | RISK MANAGEMENT
Next, we explain the difference between workplace ‘hazards’ and ‘risks’ and the fundamental role risk assessments have in shaping safe ways of working. We also highlight common workplace risks and the role staff can play in reducing those risks for all.
UNIT 3 | ACCIDENT PREVENTION
Next, we look at the common causes of accidents, for example, horseplay and the role employees have in ensuring workplace accidents don’t occur.
UNIT 4 | UK LAW
To ensure staff understand their safety obligations have legal force, this section provides and overview of the Health & Safety at Work Act and the Management of Health and Safety Regulations.
UNIT 5 | MONITOR AND REVIEW
Finally, staff understand that effective health and safety requires continues 2-way communication between those undertaking tasks and designing safe ways of working. And how period reviews or audits are required to assess if further improvements in risk reduction are possible.
UNIT 6 | QUIZ
Health and Safety Awareness Certificate
At the end of the online HSE Awareness training there is a 15 question, multiple-choice quiz. Achieve over 80%, to demonstrate the course content is understood and we will email the certificate. A posted certificate is available for £9.
The Health & Safety Awareness certificate is valid for 3 years.
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Who is this HSE Awareness course for?
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.
What are the learning outcomes?
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
What is health and safety?
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.
What is health and safety management?
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.
What is health and safety legislation?
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
Will this course help me get my CSCS card?
No, the Echo3 HSE Awareness course will not help you get your CSCS card.
What are the 2 main UK safely laws?
The HSE Act 1974 requires employers to ensure the health and safety of all employees, and anyone affected by their work, so far as is reasonably practicable.
The Management of Health & Safety at Work regulations build on the HSE Act 1974 to include a duty on employers to assess risks, and document the steps take. For example, retaining training certificates.