Training

MANUAL HANDLING
This course will benefit  anyone whose work involves lifting or moving loads. The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require all employers to carry out training for staff who lift or move loads. This course helps to ensure that you comply with this legislation.
This half day programme can be tailored to your needs and delivered at your own premises or at our dedicated training centres in East Sussex..

Course Agenda

• Definition of manual handling
• Manual Handling – the problem
• Anatomy of the back
• Elements of safe handling
• Risk Assessment
• Applying the principles
• Test

Delegates successfully completing the course will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

LADDER USER AWARENESS
The HSE have not banned steps - nor have they banned ladders! Despite this, the allegation is regularly repeated and some firms have fallen for the myth and acted upon it. For straightforward, short duration work steps and ladders can be a good option, but you wouldn’t want to be working on them doing complex tasks for long periods. A large number of workers are seriously injured or killed using ladders and steps each year.
This course will benefit anyone whose work involves the use of ladders or stepladders .

Course Agenda

• Work At Height Regs
• Selecting the most appropriate work at height equipment
• When is it appropriate to use ladders
• Safe use of ladders
• Pre use Inspection for damage
• Hazards
• Product Standards
• Test

Delegates successfully completing the course will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

GENERAL SAFETY AWARENESS
All employees will benefit from having safety considerations as part of their everyday working . This programme gives an over-view of why its important to work safely and will prepare employees for their CITB / CSCS Safety passports which enables them to work on sites .

Course Agenda

• The Importance of Safety
• Health & safety legislation
• Risk Assessment – assessing and controlling
• Hazard Identification
• Principles of accident prevention
• Investigating Accidents and Incidents
• Active monitoring, audit and review

Topics Covered
· Health and safety policy
· Risk assessment
· Office safety
· Good housekeeping
· Accidents and first aid
· Fire safety
· Hazardous substances
· Manual handling
· Display screen equipment
· Personal protective equipment
· Workplace stress

INDUCTION SAFETY TRAINING

A half day course for new employees , designed to suit your working environment and your organisational requirements, policies and procedures.

Course Agenda

· Health and safety in your organisation
· Office safety
· Good housekeeping
· Accidents and first aid
· Fire safety
· Manual handling
· Safe use of display screen equipment
· Personal protective equipment
· Employer health and safety responsibilities
· Employee health and safety responsibilities

FIRE SAFETY AWARENESS

An introduction to your fire and emergency procedures. The course advises delegates of their role in a fire or other emergency and the appropriate actions to take .

Course Agenda

· Fire – an introduction (the fire triangle, fire signage etc)
· Review of fire and emergency procedures
· Action on discovery or suspicion of a fire
· The fire and emergency plan
· The fire management team
· Roles and responsibilities
· On hearing the alarm
· Incident control
· The evacuation process
· Planning, preparation and communication

RISK ASSESSMENT

An introduction to Workplace Risk Assessments and an understanding of the role of the  risk assessor.

Course Agenda

· Hazard Identification
· Assessing The Risk
· Controlling Risks
· Significant findings
· Recording and reviewing risk assessments