LEVEL 3 HEALTH & SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE COURSE CONTENT OVERVIEW

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This Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace course is designed to help managers and supervisors understand the importance of undertaking health and safety risk assessments and ensuring that relevant and appropriate control measures are put in place to prevent and manage the risks found. The course gives an in-depth guide to health and safety, covering all areas of risk that you may come into contact with whilst at work, and explains the legislation and regulations that all employers are required to follow. Module One: Introduction This module explains why health and safety is important, how it is relevant to employers and employees and details the essential steps needed when completing a workplace risk assessment. • • • • • • •

Why is health and safety important? Definitions Controlling workplace hazards Occupational, environmental and human factors Inspections, investigations and audits Risk assessments The competent person

Module Two: Legislation This module outlines the government legislation in place to control health and safety and explains what is expected of employers and employees in regards to the regulations. The module also explains the penalties that may be occurred if businesses do not adhere to the relevant legislation. • Primary and secondary legislation • Employer duties • Employee duties • Approved codes of practice • Enforcement officers • Penalties Module Three: Reporting and Investigating Accidents This module highlights the importance of recording, reporting and investigating workplace accidents, focussing on the RIDDOR regulations and explaining which accidents are must be reported by law. • Workplace accidents • The accident triangle • Legal requirements • RIDDOR • Injuries to people not at work • Occupational diseases • Dangerous occurrences • Investigations • Who should investigate? • Action plan and implementation Module Four: The Workplace and Work Equipment This module explains how to reduce the risks to health and safety by ensuring that all work equipment and work spaces used are safe and well-designed, including how to assess any new equipment introduced into the workplace.

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Workplace slips and trips Reducing the risk Lighting in the workplace Work equipment Work equipment control measures New equipment Mobile work equipment

Module Five: Fire and Explosion This module outlines the duties that employers and employees have in regards to ensuring the workplace is safe from fire hazards. The module explains the fire triangle and the necessity for a fire safety risk assessment. • Why is it important? • Enforcement • Employer duties • Employer duties – explosions • Employee duties • The responsible person • The fire triangle • The fire triangle in practice • Fire risk assessment Module Six: Fire and Explosion Part 2 This module covers the control measures that your business should have in place in order to reduce the risks associated with fire and explosion, including fire extinguishers, safety signs and how to ensure that evacuation routes and procedures are safe and reliable. • • • • • • • • •

Fire detection and warning systems Fire escape routes Evacuation procedures Evacuation of disabled people Emergency lighting Fire extinguishers Fire safety signs Preparing an emergency plan Precaution against explosions

Module Seven: Electricity This module explains the risks associated with working with and near electricity. The module outlines what to include in the risk assessment and details the importance of safety devices and maintenance. • Why is it important? • Causes of accidents and injuries • Employer and employee responsibilities

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Electrical risk assessments Eliminating and reducing risk Safe installations Electrically powered portable equipment Safety devices Working near electricity and wiring Avoiding underground cables Overhead power lines Explosive atmospheres Maintaining electrical equipment Dealing with electric shocks

Module Eight: Working at Height This module highlights the dangers of working at height, explaining how to reduce the risks, select appropriate equipment and ensure employees are properly trained. • The risks • Legislation • Employer and employee duties • Hierarchy of control measures • Risk reduction • Types of equipment • Risk of fall • Fragile surfaces • Vehicles • Training • Emergency procedures Module Nine: Vehicles This module explains the responsibilities that employers have in regards to vehicles and the workplace, explaining the importance of having appropriate traffic routes, signs, signals and lighting in place. • Responsibilities and the law • Risk assessment • Work site control measures • Traffic routes • Temporary traffic routes • Work site visibility • Work site speed • Pedestrians • Signs, signals and markings • Work site lighting • Parking • Privately owned vehicles • The public and visiting drivers Module Ten: Vehicles Part 2 This module outlines the responsibilities that employees have in regards to vehicles, explaining the expected driver standards and highlighting the safe practices to follow when reversing, signalling and accepting deliveries. • Design of vehicles • Maintenance of vehicles • Vehicle immobilisation • Driver standards • Training drivers • Reversing • Signallers • Deliveries Module Eleven: Vehicles Part 3 This module goes into further detail on driver standards, explaining how to follow safe practice when partaking in a variety of vehicle-based activities. • Coupling and uncoupling • Loading and unloading • Tipping

• Avoiding overturns • Avoiding falls Module Twelve: Violence This module raises an awareness of how violence can be a problem in the workplace and explains how to undergo a risk assessment and put control measures in place to ensure the related risks are managed. • Those most at risk • The law • Risk factors • Control measures • Generic, individual and departmental risk assessments • Work activities and communication • Work environment • Training Module Thirteen: Alcohol and Drugs This module outlines the potential need for both alcohol and drug policies in the workplace and helps you to understand at what stage screening and training may be needed. • Alcohol at work • Alcohol policy • Alcohol screening • Drug misuse • Legislation • Signs of drug misuse • Drug policy • Drug screening Module Fourteen: Hazardous Substances (COSHH) This module provides information on the COSHH regulations and explains the ill-health effects that your employees may suffer if the associated risks are not managed correctly. The module explains how you can prevent exposure to hazardous substances and how you can monitor and control the situation. • • • • • • • • • • • •

What is a hazardous substance? Routes of entry Ill health effects The law Employer and employee responsibilities Complying with regulations Assessing the risks Exposure prevention Workplace Exposure Limits Personal Protective Equipment Monitoring and surveillance Information, instruction and training

Module Fifteen: Hazardous Substances (COSHH) Part 2 This module provides further detail on COSHH issues, with particular references to the hazards caused by flammable substances, asbestos and lead. • Flammable substances • Dangerous substances • Employer responsibilities • Flammable liquids, dusts and gases • Asthma causing substances • Asbestos • Lead

Module Sixteen: Noise This module outlines how to do a risk assessment in relation to noise, ensuring that employers are aware of the hazards and understand how to select safe work equipment, provide the correct personal protective equipment and monitor the effects of noise on their employees. • • • • • • • • • • • •

How noise is measured Effects of noise The law Employer and employee responsibilities Supply of equipment Noise risk assessments Competent person Purchasing policy Reducing noise at the source Personal protective equipment Information, instruction and training Health surveillance

Module Seventeen: Vibration This module defines the different types of vibration, explains the law related to it and explains the employer and employee duties expected in order to manage the risks. • • • • • • • • • •

Hand-arm vibration Whole body vibration How is it measured? Effects The law Employer and employee duties Manufacturers and suppliers Assessing the risk Eliminating and reducing risks Health surveillance

Module Eighteen: Ergonomics This module defines ergonomics and explains how it is essential for your workplace, focussing on display screen equipment, manual handling and stress. • • • • • • • •

What is ergonomics? Improving health and safety Practical application Display screen equipment Manual handling Work related stress Assessing the risks Control measures

Module Nineteen: Manual Handling This module explains the risks associated with manual handling and explains how to do a detailed risk assessment in regards to the task, the load, the environment and the individual’s capacity. • What is manual handling? • Employer and employee duties • Consequences • Can it be avoided? • Assessing the risk • HSE guideline • Twisting • Frequency of operation • Detailed risk assessments • Task • Load • Environment • Individual capacity

Module Twenty: Manual Handling Part 2 This module provides further information on manual handling, detailing the mechanical aids that are available and explaining how to ensure your employees are lifting, pushing and pulling loads safely and correctly. • Mechanical aids • Changing the layout • Personal protective equipment • Lifting • Pushing and pulling • Training Module Twenty One: Stress, Welfare, First Aid and Emergency Procedures This module raises an awareness of the effects that stress can have on employees if it is not dealt with or prevented. The module explains how to improve the welfare of your employees, details the law around first aid and outlines the emergency procedures you should have in place. • • • • • • • • •

Workplace stress Medical conditions Causes of stress Stress risk assessment Control measures Welfare: the law Employee responsibilities First aid: the law Emergency procedures

Module Twenty Two: A Positive Workplace Culture This module explains the importance of having a positive workplace attitude towards health and safety and provides information on how to ensure that your employees are actively involved in promoting health and safety in the workplace. • • • • • • • • • • •

What is culture? A positive culture Benefits Foundations of a positive culture Safety representatives Paid time off Employer duties Inspection of the workplace Safety committees Health and safety regulations Team briefing

Module Twenty Three: Role of Managers, Supervisors and PPE This module outlines the roles of managers and supervisors in ensuring that training is given and that health and safety standards are maintained. The module also covers the law on personal protective equipment. • Managers • Supervisors • Personal protective equipment • PPE law • Hazards • Training • Maintenance • CE marking Module Twenty Four: Staff Motivation, Training, Conflicts and Disputes This module explains the benefits of making sure that employees are well trained and motivated to do their

jobs and keep health and safety at the forefront. The module also explains what to do if there are conflicts that need resolving. • Motivating staff • Benefits of training • The training process • Resolving disputes and conflict • Driver standards • Training drivers • Reversing • Signallers • Deliveries

Aims of the Training By the end of this course, learners will: • • • • •

Understand health and safety legislation. Know how to report and investigate accidents. Understand the roles of managers, supervisors and personal protective equipment. Know how to deal with stress, welfare, conflict, motivation, staff training, first aid and emergency procedures. Understand the risks associated with: o The workplace and work equipment. o Fire and explosion. o Electricity. o Working at height. o Vehicles. o Violence, drugs and alcohol. o Hazardous substances. o Noise and vibration. o Manual handling.

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