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Health and Safety Training

Training Courses Offered and Curriculum

Keeping workplaces safe is a number one priority for any business. Our customized safety inductions and training mean your workforce is qualified, inducted and assessed before they even step on site. Our holistic approach to managing the training needs of your organization gives you a customizable, user-friendly approach to scheduling training and achieving your goals for personnel and contractors.

Health and Safety in the Workplace
Health and Safety in the Workplace L2
Working at Height
Display screen equipment training
Health & Safety in a Construction Environment

Induction and Management

Course content

In a classroom environment, delegates will learn about the legislations and regulations that are relevant to them, as well as potential hazards and risks. This includes:

  • Risk Assessments
  • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
  • Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 and Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations 2006
  • Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
  • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
  • Health and Safety (Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996
  • Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
  • Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992
  • Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992

Display Screen Equipment Assessment

As an employer, you must protect your workers from the health risks of working with display screen equipment (DSE), such as PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 apply to workers who use DSE daily, for an hour or more at a time. We describe these workers as ‘DSE users’. The regulations don’t apply to workers who use DSE infrequently or only use it for a short time.

How to protect workers’ health

The law applies if users are, for example:

  • at a fixed workstation
  • mobile workers
  • home workers
  • hot-desking (workers should carry out a basic risk assessment if they change desks regularly)

Employers must:

  • do a DSE workstation assessment
  • reduce risks, including making sure workers take breaks from DSE workor do something different
  • provide an eye test if a worker asks for one
  • provide training and information for workers

COSHH

You are probably already aware of many risks in your trade or industry. A COSHH assessment concentrates on the hazards and risks from substances in your workplace.

Remember that hazards and risks are not limited to substances labelled as ‘hazardous’.

Steps to making a COSHH assessment:

  • Walk around your workplace. Where is there potential for exposure to substances that might be hazardous to health?Examples include processes that emit dust, fume, vapour, mist or gas; and skin contact with liquids, pastes and dusts. Substances with workplace exposure limits (WELs) are hazardous to health.
  • In what way are the substances harmful to health?Get safety data sheets, and read your trade magazines. Some substances arise from processes and have no safety data sheet. Examples include fume from welding or soldering, mist from metalworking, dust from quarrying, gases from silage. Look at the HSE web pages for your trade or industry – Your Industry.
  • What jobs or tasks lead to exposure?Note these down. Note down what control measures you already use. For these jobs, how likely is any harm to workers’ health?
  • Are there any areas of concern, eg from the Accident Book?Examples include burns from splashes, nausea or lightheadedness from solvents, etc