Health and Safety Training Courses

Asbestos Awareness

Essential information concerning the health risks associated with asbestos, the potential for encountering the material and the management of asbestos-containing materials.

COSHH Risk Assessment

The half day course is designed to introduce chemical safety issues and includes simple COSHH assessments. The one day course gives a more detailed treatment of the COSHH process.

Directors Responsibilities

An informative and thought provoking course for Company Directors on their responsibilities under Health and Safety Law.

Display Screen Equipment (Computer Workstation) Assessor

Provides the theoretical background and practical skills required for in-house staff to carry out DSE assessments.

Display Screen Equipment (Computer Workstation) Users

This course meets your statutory requirements to provide information, instruction and training to DSE users. Included is workstation set-up and the importance of good posture. This course can be expanded to include laptops if required.

Fire Fighting Equipment

A basic course covering how fires start and spread and the properties of different extinguishers – recommended for all staff.

Fire Co-ordinators

Fire safety background training for staff who will undertake the fire co-ordinator role.

Fire Risk Assessment

Fire safety background combined with practical exercises in undertaking fire risk assessment.

Health and Safety Awareness

A general awareness course for all staff covering the Health and Safety topics relevant to your organisation.  Designed to meet your statutory requirement to provide general health and safety information, instruction and training to all staff.

Legionnaires’ Disease

A 90 minute talk regarding the dangers of Legionellae.
What it is, who is at  risk and how the risk can be managed.

Manual Handling

A course that looks at the dangers of poor manual handling and explains how to lift safely. Examples can be tailor-made for most situations.

Manual Handling Risk Assessment

Anatomical background and practical techniques, including the concept of manual handling assessment., which can be tailor-made for most situations.

New and Expectant Mothers Risk Assessment

A detailed course covering the issues to consider when employees are pregnant or returning to work from maternity leave.  Includes case-study examples to work through.

Personal Safety – Travelling

This course looks at the general issues around being alone whilst travelling.
Good Practice Guide included.

Personal Safety – Visiting People

Similar to above but concentrating on what makes people angry/aggressive/violent etc. How to recognise the signs and the action to take.

Reporting and Investigation of Accidents and Incidents

This is a detailed course for all staff that could be involved in this process - including Supervisors, Managers and Directors

Risk Assessment and Workplace Monitoring

Detailed theoretical course and practical workshop.  Designed to give inexperienced staff the confidence required to carry out risk assessments and inspections of the workplace.

Risk Assessment Refresher Day

A chance for trained staff to brush up and develop their skills in general risk assessment along with DSE and fire risk assessment.  The delegates set the agenda for this day!

Stress Awareness For Managers

A one day course for Managers and Directors.  The first half of the day is based on the Wellbeing For Employees course.  The second half of the day provides the additional information and skills required by Managers to conduct stress risk assessments and implement controls in the workplace.

N.B The controls are based on the HSE Standards for Work-Related Stress Management

Wellbeing For Employees

A half day course on general stress awareness and self-management for all staff.  The course focuses on how to recognise the symptoms of stress, how the body reacts to stress, the main contributing factors, techniques to elicit the relaxation response and coping strategies.  Also included are details of any support / controls in place within your organisation.