Description
Warehouse Safety Training Online | Warehouse operations present a wide variety of potential hazards to the worker. According to Health and Safety Executive figures, in the 2015/16 RIDDOR reporting period 621,000 workers sustained a non-fatal injury at work. The fatal injury rate for warehouse operations is also higher than the national average for other industries.
COURSE OBJECTIVE | Provide the knowledge you and your staff need to work safety in a warehouse environment.
On completion of this course you will…
| Be aware of the various sources of hazards in a warehouse
| Understand precautions to follow while working in a warehouse environment
| Know how to manage and reduce risks to colleagues
Course content
Section 1 | Legislation
Working in warehouses
HSE act 1974
Employer’s duties
Employee’s duties
Section 2 | Hazards faced in the warehouse
General Safety checklist
Hazard communication
Forklifts
Portable fire extinguishers
Section 3 | Proactive Working
Introduction
Security and safe packaging
Warehouse storage
Risk management
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Why take the warehouse safety training course?
Every warehouse exposes workers to a unique combination of hazards that individually and together have the potential to injure workers. Examples of those hazards are, Lifting, Trips and Falls, Chemicals, Repetitive Motion, Noise, Respiratory, Electrical and Vehicular.
These hazards combined with unsafe practices such as…
| Unsafe use of forklifts.
| Improper stacking of goods
| Failure to follow proper lockout/tagout procedures
| Inadequate fire safety provisions
| Failure to use proper Personal Protective Equipment
| Repetitive motion injuries.
…means that is it crucial to have an effective safety management system in place and warehouse safety training course forms part of every system to ensure staff understand safety operating procedures.
Ideal For
This course is ideal for any employees that work in a warehouse, managers who supervise warehouse work, and employers who have employees that work in a warehouse.
Certificate
Certification
| Passmark 80% in the final 20 question assessment
| Unlimited Retries
| Receive echo3education completion certificate
Benefits of echo3education Warehouse Safety training online
| RoSPA Approved
| Simple course enrolment and assignment
| Instant self-print certificate emailed on completion
| Prices starting at £5. Contact for details.
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