Course description
NEBOSH Safety Simplified
In just three days this new course, created by NEBOSH, will give you practical, real-life skills to manage and improve health and safety in any workplace. It’s relevant to any business, in any sector utilising real life case studies and cutting edge learning practices.
Learning is fun and engaging using high quality resources and the latest augmented reality technology.
Employers will see the benefits of the training in improved efficiencies, such as fewer days lost through illness and accidents.
Many organisations and individuals can feel daunted by their health and safety responsibilities because the human and financial costs of a failure can be immense. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Safety Simplified aims to demystify the practicalities of risk assessment and control, help organisations reduce accidents and work related ill-health, achieve greater employee engagement and improve productivity. The three-day introductory course uses real-life case studies and augmented reality to bring health and safety to life so learners can make a real difference in the workplace.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who is it for?
Individuals
Safety Simplified will give you invaluable knowledge and skills that will help you improve safety in your workplace.
This three-day course is:
- Relevant to every workplace, in any sector
- Suitable for employees at any level as an introduction to occupational safety and health
- Perfect for those with responsibility for, or an interest in, health and safety.
Emplyers
According to the Health and Safety Executive, workplace injuries and ill-health cost UK businesses over £15 billion per year. To go home safely at the end of the working day is a right, not a privilege. NEBOSH courses and qualifications are trusted by organisations around the world to help them create a safer workplace and improved safety culture.
After studying Safety Simplified, employees will have fresh ideas and practical tips to start making improvements straight away. Safety Simplified will help organisations to:
- Reduce incident and injury rates, and the associated lost time, absence, reputational damage and cost
- Build greater health and safety awareness amongst employees
- Increase employee engagement and participation to go beyond basic compliance with organisational safety measures
- Make working relationships between health and safety leaders and employees more effective and collaborative
- Improve morale and lower staff turnover.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of the course, learners will undertake a short examination and practical risk assessment. A certificate will be issued after both assessments have been successfully completed.
As a robust introduction to occupational safety and health, Safety Simplified will give you key practical skills to take into the workplace:
- Understand and implement a simple risk assessment.
- Stop incidents from repeating themselves; a four-step approach to investigations.
- Identify and manage common workplace hazards, including workplace equipment, manual handling, stress and more.
- Keep an eye on how things are going; understanding audits, inspections and how to learn from good or bad practice.
On completion of the Safety Simplified course, learners will:
- Understand the reasons for, and benefits of, managing health and safety.
- Have an improved understanding of organisational safety measures.
- Understand how to help prevent incidents recurring.
- Appreciate the purpose of inspections and audits.
- Know how to contribute to supporting health and safety practices and create a better working environment for everyone.
Training Course Content
Making the case for health and safety
- Responsibilities for employers and workers
- Moral and legal reasons and benefits
- Policies, objectives and resources
- Checking and monitoring
Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
- Risk assessments
- What ‘hazard’, ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’ really mean
- Why we do risk assessment
- How you do risk assessment (five steps to risk assessment)
Stopping incidents from repeating themselves A simple four-step approach to investigations:
- Gather information
- Analyse information
- Identify risk control measures
- Develop action plan and implement it
Dealing with common workplace hazards
- General workplace issues, violence/aggression, substance abuse, stress, noise/vibration
- Hazardous chemicals/substances
- Laptops/computers and manual handling
- Electricity
- Work equipment and work at height
- Workplace transport
Keeping an eye on how things are going
- Ignoring the trivial and focusing on the important
- Inspecting the workplace
- Auditing – what, why and how
- Learning from good and bad practice
Course delivery details
This course has the face to face (open and in-house course delivery options).
The required teaching time for this course is 18 hours. This is 3 days when delivered as a face-to-face training course.
Why choose Safety Nation
100% say they would use Safety Nation again
IOSH pass rate = 100%
Expenses
Course fee: £1500 + VAT