Health & Safety in the Workplace
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Course Overview:
The QA Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) is ideal for all employees, as it helps candidates develop a greater understanding of health and safety issues and the role that everyone plays in maintaining a safe working environment.
Roles and responsibilities of employers and employees
Health and safety laws, including:
• Penalties for non-compliance
• Training and competence in the workplace
• Communicating health and safety information
Risk assessments and risk control hierarchy
Identifying and controlling risks from common
workplace hazards:
• Slips, trips and falls
• Manual handling
• Fire safety
• Working from height
• Electricity
• Hazardous substances
• Workplace conditions
• Ergonomics
• Equipment
• Noise and vibration
• Transport and vehicles
• Violence
• Smoking, alcohol and drugs
• Stress
Procedures for responding to accidents and incidents
Recording incidents, accidents and ill health
Successful delegates are awarded a QA Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in theWorkplace (RQF)
FAQs
This course is suitable for all employees who need to develop a stronger understanding of health and safety in the workplace. FGH Training delivers it for organisations that want people to understand workplace hazards, legal responsibilities, and the part everyone plays in maintaining a safe working environment.
Learners will gain an understanding of key health and safety principles, including employer and employee responsibilities, health and safety law, risk assessments, risk control, and how to identify and control common workplace hazards. Through FGH Training, they will leave with practical knowledge that supports safer behaviour, better decision making, and stronger day-to-day awareness at work.
This course is useful because it helps organisations improve health and safety awareness across the workplace. FGH Training provides this qualification as a practical way to strengthen knowledge, support safer working practices, and help employees understand how their actions can reduce risk and prevent avoidable harm.
This course is relevant in any workplace where employees need to understand health and safety risks and follow safe working procedures. This includes offices, hospitality venues, retail settings, warehouses, education settings, event venues, public buildings, construction-related workplaces and other environments where people, equipment, movement, manual handling or workplace hazards may be present.