Health and Safety Awareness for Managers

Overview

To raise awareness about health and safety in the workplace and to engage staff in understanding and fulfilling their responsibilities for health and safety at work.

Learning

• On completion of this course the learner will be able to:
• Identify how the law can have an impact on safety and health in the workplace.
• List the benefits and characteristics of an effective health and safety management system.
• Describe the principles that underpin good safety and health performance.
• Describe how to assess, reduce and control risk in the workplace.
• Identify workplace hazards and risks, their impact and how to manage them.

Assessment

Qualitative assessment by tutor (For example: observations or demonstrations throughout course)