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Preventing Slips and Trips Course
Slips, trips and falls course provides staff with the knowledge to keep themselves and others safe. The UKs leading cause of reportable accidents are slips, trips and falls.
Many of these accidents result in severe injuries like broken bones. Financially, the cost is high.
Estimated at around £500 million per year, due to lost productivity, absenteeism, and compensation.
Yet most of these accidents are easily preventable. For example, by clearing trailing cables or cleaning spills quickly.
This Slips and trips online course is designed to reduce the chance of injuries in your workplace by improving staff behaviours.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?
Anyone at risk of slips, trips, or falls in the workplace would benefit from this course. For example:
Construction Workers
Warehouse Workers
Delivery staff
Anyone frequently lifting at work
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completion of this Slips and trips online training course learner will know;
Understand legislation relating to slips and trips
Know the most common injuries
Understand the role of risk assessments
What causes slips and trips
How to prevent slips and trip
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT 1 | INTRODUCTION
In this short, two-section course, we first outline supporting information such as statistics, common causes of injury and legislation. Next, we detail the practical steps that can be taken to reduce risks.
Topic titles include:
Definitions
Facts and figures
Legislation
Common causes of accidents
UNIT 2| PREVENTING SLIPS & TRIPS
In any workplace, taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others is a key part of your role. In this section, let’s take a look at some of the duties you and your employer are expected to implement with regard to workplace safety.
Good Housekeeping
What employees can do
Risk Assessments
What employers can do
Level Changes
Signs
UNIT 3 | QUIZ
SLIPS & TRIPS CERTIFICATE
At the end of the Slips Trips and Falls training online there is a 15 question, multiple-choice quiz. If learners demonstrate their understanding of course content by achieving a minimum score of 80%, we’ll email them their completion certificate.
CPD accredited, verifiable certificate on completion
Learn anywhere with an internet connection
Licenses never expire
Carbon neutral training solution
SLIPS & TRIPS LEGISLATION
The Health and Safety at Work 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, which means balancing the level of risk against the measures needed to control the risk in terms of money, time or trouble. This includes taking steps to control slip and trip risks.
The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 build on the HSWA to include a duty on employers to assess risks (including slip and trip risks) and take action where necessary.
WHEN DO SLIPS USUALLY OCCUR?
Most slips occur when the floor in contaminated. Trips occur when you catch your foot on an unexpected obstacle.
Most accidents result from;
Uneven surfaces
Low friction between footwear and floor
Stairs
Trailing cables
Unsuitable flooring
Poor housekeeping, for example not cleaning as you go
HOW TO REDUCE THE CHANCE OF SLIPS & TRIPS
Firstly undertake a Risk Assessment, this is mandatory and will help you see any issues to fix.
Depending on your findings, likely control measures will include:
Ask staff to clean as they go, tidy cables, and keep walkways clear
Ask staff to take care and stairs and hold the handrail
Salt icy walkways and carparks in the winter
Use matting where appropriate
Provide appropriate slips trips and falls training for staff
Ask staff to clean spillages immediately. And recognise ‘Caution Slippery’ signage is a short-term resort
Select the right footwear for high friction
Engineer improvements if budgets permit. For example, better lighting, improved flooring, level uneven surfaces.
INJURY STATISTICS FROM SLIPS
Statistics help us understand the risk so proportionate resources can be deployed.
Many of these accidents result in severe injuries like broken bones. Financially, the cost is high.
Estimated at around £500 million per year, due to lost productivity, absenteeism, and compensation.
Yet most of these accidents are easily preventable. For example, by clearing trailing cables or cleaning spills quickly.
This Slips and trips online course is designed to reduce the chance of injuries in your workplace by improving staff behaviours.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?
Anyone at risk of slips, trips, or falls in the workplace would benefit from this course. For example:
Construction Workers
Warehouse Workers
Delivery staff
Anyone frequently lifting at work
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completion of this Slips and trips online training course learner will know;
Understand legislation relating to slips and trips
Know the most common injuries
Understand the role of risk assessments
What causes slips and trips
How to prevent slips and trip
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT 1 | INTRODUCTION
In this short, two-section course, we first outline supporting information such as statistics, common causes of injury and legislation. Next, we detail the practical steps that can be taken to reduce risks.
Topic titles include:
Definitions
Facts and figures
Legislation
Common causes of accidents
UNIT 2| PREVENTING SLIPS & TRIPS
In any workplace, taking responsibility for the safety of yourself and others is a key part of your role. In this section, let’s take a look at some of the duties you and your employer are expected to implement with regard to workplace safety.
Good Housekeeping
What employees can do
Risk Assessments
What employers can do
Level Changes
Signs
UNIT 3 | QUIZ
SLIPS & TRIPS CERTIFICATE
At the end of the Slips Trips and Falls training online there is a 15 question, multiple-choice quiz. If learners demonstrate their understanding of course content by achieving a minimum score of 80%, we’ll email them their completion certificate.
CPD accredited, verifiable certificate on completion
Learn anywhere with an internet connection
Licenses never expire
Carbon neutral training solution
SLIPS & TRIPS LEGISLATION
The Health and Safety at Work 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, which means balancing the level of risk against the measures needed to control the risk in terms of money, time or trouble. This includes taking steps to control slip and trip risks.
The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 build on the HSWA to include a duty on employers to assess risks (including slip and trip risks) and take action where necessary.
WHEN DO SLIPS USUALLY OCCUR?
Most slips occur when the floor in contaminated. Trips occur when you catch your foot on an unexpected obstacle.
Most accidents result from;
Uneven surfaces
Low friction between footwear and floor
Stairs
Trailing cables
Unsuitable flooring
Poor housekeeping, for example not cleaning as you go
HOW TO REDUCE THE CHANCE OF SLIPS & TRIPS
Firstly undertake a Risk Assessment, this is mandatory and will help you see any issues to fix.
Depending on your findings, likely control measures will include:
Ask staff to clean as they go, tidy cables, and keep walkways clear
Ask staff to take care and stairs and hold the handrail
Salt icy walkways and carparks in the winter
Use matting where appropriate
Provide appropriate slips trips and falls training for staff
Ask staff to clean spillages immediately. And recognise ‘Caution Slippery’ signage is a short-term resort
Select the right footwear for high friction
Engineer improvements if budgets permit. For example, better lighting, improved flooring, level uneven surfaces.
INJURY STATISTICS FROM SLIPS
Statistics help us understand the risk so proportionate resources can be deployed.