Foundation Certificate in Health & Safety Training Course

Duration: One Day
Location: Client's Premises or WFS Training Suite

Course Background

This training programme has been designed to provide essential knowledge and understanding of health and safety for employees working in any sector of business, whether manufacturing, commerce, public sector or the service industries. Good health and safety standards rely on employers and employees working together to reduce risks and prevent accidents and ill health arising from work activities.

Employers have a responsibility to provide safe and health workplace conditions as well as safe systems and methods of workplace activities. An essential element of any safe system is the knowledge and attitude of employees, and this demands prior training in the basics of health and safety, as well as specific training for individual tasks.

Brief Outline Of Course

The Foundation Certificate represents a foundation of knowledge required by everyone and will provide delegates with health and safety understanding which will enable them to contribute to any health and safety management system.

Course Content

The programme will enable the delegate to:

Work in a safe and healthy manner and contribute to improving health and safety within an organisation's policy.
Identify key hazards in their own workplace.
Understand the important of health and safety rules and working procedures.
Report potential health and safety problems.
Be responsible for their own actions.

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