The following list summarises the range of health and safety related courses we provide.
Abrasive Wheels Training
An abrasive wheel is commonly defined as any wheel, disc, cylinder, or cone consisting of abrasive particles bonded together with various substances. Misuse and mishandling of this material can result to injuries and can even be life-threatening. The perils that come with the use of this material include wheel breakage/bursting, contact or entanglement with running wheel, physical injury from component being ground, noise and dust inhalation. The danger of breakage is intrinsic in every abrasive wheel. According to statistics, nearly half of all accidents which involved this material are due to an unsafe system of work or operator error.
Asbestos Awareness
Asbestos products are found in many areas in the home and other structures. This material is used in the production of roofs, gutters, downpipes, barge caps, gable ends, imitation brick and exterior sheeting on the walls. Like any heavily advantageous and profitable substances and elements, Asbestos also has its dark side.
Asbestos Awareness for Architects
Asbestos is one of the most dangerous materials to be used in building houses and structures as it may harm or even kill a person exposed to it. Every year, from the day that it was used to year 2000, thousands of people were recorded to be harmed by Asbestos.
Assessing Display Screen Equipment
Employers should take the responsibility in minimizing the health risks brought up by postural stresses as it is impossible to eradicate the long-term use of computers. Taking actions to solve this dilemma in the workplace can increase the work efficiency of the employees and reduce their absences.
Basic Fire Safety Awareness
If there is smoke, there is fire. This course covers the nuts and bolts of fire and how to prevent it.
This training course caters for the needs of all employees to help them mitigate the risks around where fire may start in their workplace.
Basic Legionella Management
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and updated code of practice L8 in 2001 states that buildings and company owners are obliged to manage Legionella.
But what is Legionella and why should we take control of it?
Legionella is a bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease that is usually found on air-conditioners and heating systems which might complicate the people’s health on the workplace. This disease can be treated by antibiotics and yet in some cases, it poses a great risk to health and may lead to death. Although, the bacteria cannot be transmitted from one person to another.
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Training
Hazardous substances are present in nearly all work environments. Exposure to these chemicals poses a huge threat to people’s health, especially to the workers’. Employers and workers must put in action precautionary measures to prevent risks, and observing regulations and laws implemented to reduce and even eliminate such perils in the workplace must be taken seriously.
Display Screen Equipment Awareness
Reportedly, absences at work are most commonly due to back problems and repetitive strain injuries. Most of the office works now involves sitting on a chair in front of the computer screen for hours, such routine can cause muscular skeletal diseases. These postural stresses may be prevented through observing and organizing the elements that make up the working station.
Emergency First Aid at Work – Refresher
Invariably, first aids save lives. In any emergency situations, professional help is not always immediately accessible. There is always a time interval wherein a person still has to wait for the ambulance or professional healers to come to rescue, may it be minutes or seconds. In the life of a person, every drop of the clock’s second hand counts. The poison may spread in seconds, blood loss may become heavier in minutes, and a heart attack may be so appalling that a single mishandling can end one’s life.
Fire Extinguisher
Different types of material require different types or levels of heat in order to combust. One must be knowledgeable regarding the different kinds of fire for him to be able to successfully extinguish it, to prevent it from spreading or to avoid electrocution. Nonetheless, there are also different classifications special of fire extinguishers; for paper, textiles, wood, plastics and rubber, for flammable liquids, for combustible gases, for electrically energized equipment, and for cooking oils or fats. As each has different functions, it is important for a fire marshal or any civilian to be properly oriented about it to avoid further damage.
Fire Marshal
A fire marshal possesses the basic knowledge and the extent of fire, fire prevention, and fire safety. They know how to handle emergent situations that are related to fire outbreaks. As a fire marshal, one has to have the competency, ability, and initiative when such emergency takes place.
Level 1 Food Safety for Catering
Abiding to food safety rules, no doubt, saves lives. Employers and employees of any food services must keep in mind that cleanliness is key, from preparation, production, and manufacturing to delivering and catering. Not only the cleanliness of the food itself needs to be ensured but also that of the environment in which the food is processed, prepared and delivered. Also, the people in charge in the tasks must be competent and knowledgeable.
Level 1 Food Safety for Manufacturing
This course focuses on the importance of safety in manufacturing food which will provide food manufacturers with the knowledge on how can they assure their product’s safety.  This course will be suitable for any kind of food manufacturer may it be high-risk or low-risk, as long as the handle food, then this course is essential for them.
Level 1 Food Safety for Retail
Retailers, which are the distributor of the products, must also know that goods might still perish if not handled well because of the lack of knowledge. This course will provide retailers knowledge in food safety in the retail environment. This will aim retailers who supply both open and packaged food.
Level 2 Food Safety for Catering
Promoting a food safety culture is vital. Over the decades, more than 200 foodborne diseases have taken the lives of people from different walks of life across the globe. Truth be told, in the course of one’s life, a person will fall ill due to a foodborne disease. It affects everyone in the production chain, from producer to consumer, and everyone else in between. Involved in these outbreaks are mishandling food production, food processing, and lack of keen observation on food safety from farm to plate.
Level 2 Food Safety for Manufacturing
Promoting a food safety culture is vital. Over the decades, more than 200 foodborne diseases have taken the lives of people from different walks of life across the globe. Truth be told, in the course of one’s life, a person will fall ill due to a foodborne disease. It affects everyone in the production chain, from producer to consumer, and everyone else in between. Involved in these outbreaks are mishandling food production, food processing, and lack of keen observation on food safety from farm to plate.
Level 2 Food Safety for Retail
Promoting a food safety culture is vital. Over the decades, more than 200 foodborne diseases have taken the lives of people from different walks of life across the globe. Truth be told, in the course of one’s life, a person will fall ill due to a foodborne disease. It affects everyone in the production chain, from producer to consumer, and everyone else in between. Involved in these outbreaks are mishandling food production, food processing, and lack of keen observation on food safety from farm to plate.
Manual Handling
Incorrect manual handling is the most common causes of injury at any workplace. Manual handling is any activity that involves lifting, moving, pushing, pulling, carrying, restraining, or holding any object or equipment, may it be heavy or fragile. If such works becomes faulty, it may lead to injury, fatality, or costly damage. Manual handling is a task that needs planning, proper orientation, and adequate instructions.
Safeguarding Adults
Adults from different walks of life have different dilemmas and needs. They may be deprived from their human right to physical care, emotional stability, or spiritual welfare. Everyone, notwithstanding their social status, has their own heavy burden to carry. As we walk this earth with them, it is our responsibility to help them to carry on for it is only humane to do
Safeguarding Children
This course is aimed at anyone who has a chosen a profession that involves taking care of children. Since children are still vulnerable physically, mentally, and emotionally, they need and they deserve special care from adults. As they are yet to be able to look after themselves, it is the adults’ responsibility to keep them safe, protect their rights, and provide them with their basic needs.
Working at Height Training
This course is for anyone who undertakes work at height or employers who have employees that work at height regularly. This includes people working on platforms, scaffolds, stages, or ladders, and even alongside deep trenches. The risk to working at height is not just the distance of your fall, but also of your equipment that might harm anyone else below.
Working Safely
To work safely is an interest and concern to both employers and employees. Even though most of the legal duties that an employer is obliged, law for health and safety is one of the few pieces of legislation that places the employer’s duties on the employees as well.
In this course, you will learn how to take care of three factors that might affect your work safety. First factor is Moral, making sure that you cause no harm to the people you work with. Second is legislative, because the law requires it and you must make sure that you do not do something forbidden by the law. Third, financial, making sure that your money is managed well.
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