Learning objectives
- Identify common hazards and the risks associated with them
- Recognise safety signs used for indicating hazards and control measures
- Manage common office hazards
- Identify types of emergency and first-aid interventions, and how to access them
- Appreciate their responsibility for monitoring and reporting
- Take appropriate action to maintain health, safety and welfare at work
Introduction
What is Working Safely?
- Safety First
- Who is responsible?
- Legal responsibility
- Employee responsibility
Hazards
- Types of hazards
- What is risk?
- You make the call: Hazard or risk?
Risk Control Measures
- Exercise: Risk control measures
Safety Signs
- Exercise: Safety signs
Fire Safety
- Fire safety regulation requirements
- The fire triangle
- Preventive measures
- Fire alarm
- If you hear a fire alarm...
- If you are trapped...
- Exercise: Fire extinguisher
Slips, Trips & Falls
- Hazards
- Precautions for avoiding slips, trips and falls
- You make the call: Fix, avoid or report?
Electricity
- Dos and don'ts of working with electrical appliances
- Exercise: What can you do yourself?
First Aid
- In the event of an injury
Earthquakes
- Suspect Packages
- Suspect letter or package indicators
Monitoring & Reporting
- Exercise: Monitoring
Summary
Affirmation
Assessment
Manual Handling
Educate your staff on the controls that your Company has in place and what measures they should implement to reduce the risks when lifting and handling at work.
DSE
Educate your staff on the controls that your Company has in place and how they can prevent ill-health if they regularly use Display Screen Equipment (DSE) at work.
Lone Working
Lone working offers greater flexibility, autonomy and creates a broader talent pool for businesses.
Slips and Trips
Educate your staff on the controls that your Company has in place and what they should do to prevent slips and trips at work.
General Office Hygiene
Educate your staff on general office hygiene protocols to reduce common viruses and infections from spreading at the workplace.
Driving at Work
Educate your staff on the controls your Company has in place and what they should do to eliminate or manage the risks when driving at work.
Accident Reporting and Investigation
Learn how to pinpoint incidents that need reporting, understand the depth of causes from immediate to root, differentiate active from latent failures, and confidently navigate the HSE's six-step accident investigation.
Asbestos
Educate your staff on the risks posed by asbestos, the controls your Company has in place, and what you should do to manage these risks and stay safe.
COSHH
Fire Safety
Fire Warden Training
Ladders and Stepladders
Educate your staff on the controls that your Company has in place and what they should do to prevent accidents and incidents whenever they use ladders and/or stepladders at work.
Legionella
Lone Working
Managing Safely
Manual Handling
New and Expectant Mothers at Work
Noise
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Slips and Trips
Violence and Aggression
Work Equipment
Working at Height