Health & Safety

Occupational First Aid

About the course:
For employees who wish to become Occupational First Aiders in the workplace and for employees to comply with health and safety regulations.
At the end of the course, you will receive a First Aid Certification and credits from FETAC

Objectives include:
Administer first aid in accordance with regulations
Writing accident reports
List contents for a First Aid Kit
Core modules
Casualty management
Broken Bones
CPR
Severe Bleeding and Burns

The course is divided into 8 units as follows:
•First Aid in the workplace
•Patient Assessment
•Respiratory Emergencies
•Cardiac First Response including defibrillation
•Wounds and bleeding
•Altered levels of consciousness
•Musculoskeletal injuries
•Burns and scalds, chemicals and electric shock.

Who should attend?
Managers and personnel who may have to take charge and responsibility of a First Aid situation at their workplace.

Manual Handling Training

Manual Handling Training is designed to give candidates the knowledge to conduct all manual handling tasks in a safe manner preventing injury to themselves or others.

Who should attend?

It is a legal requirement for companies who have employees at risk from manual handling to do this course.


Objectives include

•Definitions
•Legistlation
•Statistics
•Anatomy & Injuries
•Body Mechanics
•Risk Assessment
•Lifting Safely
•Assessment
•Back care in everyday life
•Test Demonstration

Safety Representatives Training

Description:

This course is accredited by the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health and the UK QCA. Level 1 qualification is designed to create a better understanding of Health and Safety. The emphasis is on making the employee safe for him/herself, safe for others and capable of identifying potential hazards. "Health and Safety" takes as its starting point the fact that most accidents are attributable to a lack of knowledge or carelessness and that the key to improvement is increased awareness on everybody's part.

Summary of Outcomes:

To achieve this qualification a candidate will be able to:

1.Define terms and systems relating to Health and Safety, by being able to:

Outline the importance of Health and Safety to employers and employees
Explain the role of personnel and systems in Health and Safety.
Review legislation relating to Health and Safety
Review legislation in relation to the role of a Safety Rep & Safety Committee.


2. Identify hazards in the workplace and state their possible effects, by being able to:

Identify a range of hazards relating to environmental conditions
Recognise hazards associated with use of equipment and machinery
State the hazards and effects due to fire and electricity.
Deliver a Risk Assessment.


3.Outline methods for creating a safe working environment and dealing with incidents, by being able to:

Describe procedures for creating a safe working environment
Outline methods for dealing with incidents in the workplace.
Identify Safety management system structures in the workplace
Identify Training needs of a company in relation to H&S.


Course delievered by a Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner