Course overview of Health and Safety Awareness
Our Health and Safety Awareness Course gives you the skills to keep your workplace safe, compliant, and supportive.
You’ll learn about risk assessments, being ready for emergencies, fire safety, and handling hazardous substances. These are practical skills that help protect you, your colleagues, and the people you care for.
This course is ideal for care professionals who want to build their skills, or for organisations that want to keep staff and service users safe.
By completing the course, you will feel more confident in handling situations such as emergencies and accidents. This will help create a safer environment and a more positive workplace culture for everyone.
Also, we provide standalone courses in areas like COSHH, stress management, fire safety, first aid, and medication handling, so you can build deeper knowledge where needed.
Health and Safety Online Training
This CPD accredited health and safety online training forms part of the Care Certificate course. Furthermore, this course covers Standard 13 of the Care Certificate for adult health and social care settings.
Course content
Legislation, Policies & Responsibilities
- Identify key health and safety legislation in health and social care, including RIDDOR, MHSAW, and COSHH
- Describe main points of employer health and safety policies and procedures
- Outline the health and safety responsibilities of yourself, your employer, and others
- Recognise tasks that must not be carried out without special training
- Access additional health and safety support and information
Risk Assessment
- Explain the importance of assessing risks in different settings, situations, and activities
- Describe how and when to report identified health and safety risks
Moving & Assisting Safely
- Identify legislation relating to moving and assisting
- Recognise moving and assisting tasks you must not carry out until competent
- Demonstrate safe techniques for moving people and objects while maintaining dignity and following agreed ways of working
Accidents, Illness & First Aid
- Identify types of accidents and sudden illness that may occur in your role
- Follow correct procedures if an accident or sudden illness occurs
- List the emergency first aid actions you are and are not allowed to carry out
Medication & Healthcare Tasks
- Describe agreed ways of working for medication and healthcare tasks
- Recognise medication and healthcare tasks you must not carry out until competent
Hazardous Substances
- Identify hazardous substances in your workplace
- Apply safe practices for storing, using, and disposing of hazardous substances
Fire Safety
- Explain how to prevent fires from starting or spreading
- Describe what to do in the event of a fire
Workplace Security
- Describe measures to protect your own security and that of those you support
- Follow agreed ways of working when checking the identity of anyone requesting access to premises or information
Stress Management
- Recognise common signs and triggers of stress in yourself and others
- Apply strategies to manage stress effectively
Already have your own LMS? You can purchase any of our courses as SCORM files to download and add to your own system.
Aims of Health and Safety Awareness course
By completing this Health and Safety Awareness course, you will be able to:
- Understand your legal and moral health and safety responsibilities
- Identify and manage workplace risks effectively
- Carry out safe moving and handling techniques while preserving dignity
- Respond in an appropriate way to accidents and sudden illness
- Follow agreed protocols for medication and healthcare tasks
- Handle hazardous substances safely and in line with COSHH requirements
- Promote and maintain fire safety in the workplace
- Protect your own security and that of others in your care
- Recognise, prevent, and manage stress
- Understand and carry out risk assessment
What audience is this online course suitable for?
This Health and Safety Awareness course is designed specifically for Care and Support Workers working in a social care setting. It may also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about Health and Safety.
