Virtual Learning Health and Safety Overview
Our engaging courses have been developed alongside subject matter experts and are aligned with relevant legislation and guidance.
Course Overview
Duration: 30 minutes
This short course, Consequences of Sleeping on Duty, is designed to give healthcare workers vital information on how to stay awake and alert on shift.
Duration: 1 hour
This course will equip learners with the essential knowledge and understanding on how to work safely within their workplace. It also addresses the fundamental legal requirements and first aid provisions that are obligatory in an organisational setting.
With the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) estimating that every 25 minutes a person in the UK breaks or fractures a bone due to a slip, trip or fall in their work environment, this Accidents in the Workplace course provides vital information on how to reduce risk and maintain a safe, healthy and efficient workforce.
Duration: 1 hour
This Display Screen Equipment course addresses the fact that it is not the equipment in our daily office lives that is responsible for poor health and absenteeism, but the way in which we use it. The course will enable you to set up and adjust your workstation equipment to the optimum layout and identify the possible health risks associated with using display screen equipment (DSE) incorrectly.
Duration: 35 minutes
Any employer that employs individuals who are desk-based for more than 2 hours a day are legally obliged to analyse workstations, assess and reduce risks. This course ensures organisations comply with the Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Health and Safety Regulations. It will also help reduce absenteeism and injuries in employees, and improve staff well-being and performance.
Duration: 1 hour
This Fire Safety course is designed to help improve your knowledge and understanding of fire safety, fire regulations and prevention in order to keep yourself and your colleagues safe from harm.
Duration: 30 minutes
This short Fire Safety online course is designed to provide you with fundamental knowledge of the risks associated with fires. This course details the causes of fire and highlights key fire safety precautions, fire equipment and evacuation procedures so that employees can make life-saving decisions when it counts.
Duration: 35 minutes
This course aims to change the way you think about fire. It will help you to recognise and reduce fire hazards in your workplace, and will explain what you need to do in the unlikely event of a fire. The overall risk of a fire occurring is significantly lowered by having knowledgeable staff, making fire safety training a must in every workplace.This course includes a range of learning activities to help you develop your awareness of fire safety.
When you have finished the course, you’ll be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing a short assessment.
Courses have been certified by the CPD Certification Service and count towards your annual CPD requirement.
Duration: 1 hour
Food poisoning is a major concern for anyone working within the food service industry. Not only is it highly unpleasant and in some cases potentially fatal for the unlucky recipient, but it can also be costly and irrevocably damaging to an establishment’s reputation.
Luckily, most food poisoning risks can be eliminated by good basic knowledge of food hygiene principles. High standards of food preparation, storage, cleaning techniques and personal hygiene are all fundamental to the safe delivery of a customer’s food. Endorsed by The Society of Food Hygiene and Technology, this short introductory course, is ideal for training new members of staff before they enter a working kitchen for the first time.
Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes
This Food Safety Level 2 course incorporates five modules covering topics from the fundamental principles of bacterial growth and food contamination, through ‘purchase to service’ and the safe storage, preparation, and delivery of a consumer’s food. Suitable for all those operating within any discipline in the food service industry, including food transportation, this course follows the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Level 2 Food Safety in Catering Standard and is endorsed by The Society of Food Hygiene and Technology.
Duration: 50 minutes
This Food Safety Level 2 course provides food handlers with the information to control food safety hazards and satisfies their legal obligation to undertake appropriate food safety training. This course is suitable for anyone who handles or prepares food, or is involved in the management of people in a food handling environment.
Duration: 45 minutes
This course includes a range of learning activities to help you develop your understanding of health and safety. When you’ve finished the course, you’ll be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing a short assessment.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
It is impossible to remove every risk in more predictable environments let alone healthcare settings, so it remains the duty of the employers and responsibility of the employees to ensure they are well informed. This Health and Safety for Healthcare Workers course is designed especially for health and social care providers. The course imparts practical advice on risk assessment, management and regulation in line with the latest UK legislation.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
This Health and Safety for Office Workers online course demonstrates the fundamental need for awareness of the risks and hazards that can be encountered in an office environment. It seeks to equip employers and employees with the knowledge to assess, manage and prevent risks in their workplace, in line with latest UK legislation.
Duration: 1 hour
This short course, explains your legal health and safety obligations as an employer or employee and explores the penalties and consequences of poor safety in the workplace.
Duration: 1 hour
A simple risk assessment can prevent injury or damage and save your organisation time and money in absenteeism and sick pay. This short course, Health & Safety Risk Assessment, has been developed by training specialists Creative Learning Solutions and explains how you can assess risk in the workplace and what controls or measures you need to implement upon assessing those risks.
Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes
This comprehensive suite of Health and Safety courses covers the fundamentals of safe conduct at work, this set of seven courses can be bought as a bundle or separately depending on your training requirements.
Modules covered include; an Introduction to Health and Safety, Health and Safety Law, Health and Safety Risk Assessment, Manual Handling, Fire Safety, COSHH Awareness and Accidents in the Workplace. These modular courses provide staff at all levels with a well-rounded understanding of statutory health and safety regulations and responsibilities necessary to promote a safe, healthy and happier working environment.
Duration: 40 minutes
More people than ever have swapped their daily office commute for a shuffle down the hallway to a home-based workstation.
Trying to establish a productive work routine in the epicentre of our home lives can seem like an impossible task, but don’t worry – this course is here to help.
We’ll provide some tips and advice on how to become an effective home worker. You’ll receive guidance on setting up your workspace, staying safe and secure, communicating remotely, and maintaining productivity while away from the office.
This course includes practical guidance and advice to help you work productively in your home-office environment. When you finish the course, you’ll be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing a short assessment.
Courses have been certified by the CPD Certification Service and count towards your annual CPD requirement.
Duration: 1 hour
Accidents in the work environment are commonplace, often causing pain, distress, time off work and associated costs to the individuals and businesses concerned. Many accidents can be avoided with proper observation of the health and safety guidelines and legislation that has been put in place by regulatory bodies to protect both employer and employee.
Knowing your responsibilities is paramount to maintaining a safe, healthy and, hopefully, happy workforce. This short course introduces the basic principles of health and safety for the workplace.
Duration: 45 minutes
People who work in jobs where they spend the majority of time on their own can be susceptible to pressures that people who work within teams are unlikely to encounter. Delivery drivers, cleaning staff, home carers; all these types of employment require a person to work without immediate support, increasing the risk to their personal safety and mental wellbeing.
This Lone Workers course is designed to give employees who have to work alone, particularly those who have to visit customers, the steps to reduce personal safety risks and to improve their confidence when dealing with situations like violence and aggression.
Duration: 1 hour
Musculoskeletal disorders as a result of manual handling injuries are the most common work-related injury in the UK. Not only are they very painful and debilitating for the recipient, they can be highly costly for the organisation in terms of lost man hours and, in the worst case, expensive law suits.
This Manual Handling module is designed to teach employers and employees how to lift, carry and move objects safely with a view to minimising the risks of injury in the workplace.
Duration: 35 minutes
Many of us move and lift loads in our daily work, often without giving much thought to the potential consequences. Yet, workplace injuries to the back, shoulders and neck are common with millions of working days lost to musculoskeletal disorders every year.
The impact of these injuries can be considerable for employers, but particularly for the individuals involved. While acute injuries may heal quickly, longer-term chronic problems can significantly affect a sufferer’s health, wellbeing and quality of life.
This elearning module includes a range of learning activities to help you develop your understanding of manual handling.
When you finish the course, you will be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing a short assessment.
Courses have been certified by the CPD Certification Service and count towards your annual CPD requirement.
Duration: 30 minutes
With the necessity for patient handling, workers in the healthcare sector can find themselves particularly susceptible to moving and handling related injury. This Moving and Handling Essentials course is a short, introductory module designed for healthcare workers and covers: moving and handling definitions; correct lifting techniques; legislation; as well as employer and employee duties and responsibilities designed to keep a safe, healthy and happy workforce.
Duration: 45 minutes
Personal safety awareness training is very effective in reducing violent and aggressive incidents in the workplace and beyond. Staff can benefit from this course’s advice at work and in everyday situations. Throughout the course there are tips and strategies to be more safety conscious, to help employees minimise their vulnerability and enable them to avoid situations and environments that might place them at greater risk.
This course aims to raise awareness of common risks to personal safety and offers strategies that can help you minimise your chances of becoming a victim of crime. It includes a range of learning activities to help you increase your awareness of personal safety issues.
When you’ve finished, you’ll be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing a short assessment.
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service and count towards your annual CPD requirement.
Duration: 30 minutes
This course educates learners about the most common slip, trip and fall hazards whilst working in a community setting and provides practical instruction on how to carry out a risk assessment. It explores how to prevent hazards from posing a threat to clients and care workers through the implementation of control measures such as good housekeeping, changes to design, thorough maintenance, suitable flooring, footwear and proper cleaning.
Duration: 45 minutes
The Anaphylaxis Awareness course is aimed at registered professionals and is designed to help learners understand more about what anaphylaxis is, what the symptoms of allergies and anaphylaxis are, and what can be done to help a person with anaphylaxis manage their condition. This course covers the common symptoms to look out for amongst the people you work with, care and cater for.