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Basic Health and Safety Training

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Course Description

We all have a responsibility to help keep the workplace safe by following the precautionary measures and procedures put in place. Doing so reduces the hazards present, ensuring that accidents and incidents that can cause serious harm are minimised.

Basic Health and Safety course provide you with an understanding of the importance of health and safety in the workplace and of the responsibilities employees and employers have under health and safety law. The course outlines the hazards that are common in many workplaces and the effective methods to reduce them and the risk they pose to human health. With this knowledge, you will be fully prepared to recognise hazards in your own workplace and know how to maintain health and safety control procedures.

Course Duration
2 years
Who should take this course?

The course is designed for people in all working environments, including those who work in offices, retail, education, construction, factories, manufacturing and warehouses. It will be particularly useful to new employee that are required to take health and safety induction training at the start of their employment.

If you have already taken induction level training, and need to maintain or build on your existing knowledge, then it's recommended that you take the Health & Safety For Employees course.

If you are an employer, manager, or supervisor and you require an advanced level of training then it's recommended you take Health & Safety For Managers course.