Workplace Health & Safety Essentials

By the end

What you'll build

• Identify common hazards in your own work area and describe a proportionate control for each
• Report a hazard, near miss or incident with enough detail for someone to act on it
• Follow evacuation and emergency procedures and support designated responders without taking on their role
• Set up a workstation and handle loads in ways that reduce strain and injury risk
• Raise a safety concern and explain when and how unsafe work can be stopped

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 41 lessons

1. 01

   How safety actually works

   6 lessons
   • Hazard, risk and control: the three words that carry the meaning
   • Duties of the employer, the manager and the worker
   • The hierarchy of control in plain terms
   • Why near misses matter more than they appear to
   • Safety in an office, on a site, and working from home
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Spotting and reporting hazards

   6 lessons
   • Running a five-minute hazard walk of your own work area
   • Slips, trips and housekeeping
   • Electrical and equipment faults you must report rather than fix
   • Writing a hazard report that gets acted on
   • What happens after you report, and how to follow up
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Emergencies: your role and its limits

   6 lessons
   • What to do in the first sixty seconds of an emergency
   • Evacuation, assembly points and roll call
   • Responding to an alarm instead of investigating it yourself
   • Calling for help and giving a clear, precise location
   • Why designated responders exist and how to support them
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Everyday physical wellbeing

   6 lessons
   • Setting up a workstation that does not hurt you
   • Manual handling principles and when to ask for help instead
   • Screen breaks, eyes and posture
   • Fatigue, shift patterns and driving for work
   • Working alone and check-in arrangements
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Incidents, injuries and learning

   6 lessons
   • Reporting an incident properly and why the detail matters
   • Getting first aid help rather than attempting to give it
   • Preserving the scene and the facts
   • How investigations look for causes rather than blame
   • Following corrective actions through to closure
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Speaking up about safety

   6 lessons
   • Raising a safety concern and the right to stop unsafe work
   • Refusing unsafe work without turning it into a conflict
   • Contractors, visitors and shared spaces
   • Toolbox talks and pre-start checks: what they are for
   • Finding your site's specific rules and who owns them
   • + 1 more lesson
7. 07

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • What you see, and the control that fits itmatch pairs
   • The first minute after you find someone hurtsequence order
   • Getting the safety words rightfill blank
   • The leaning palletscenario
   • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works