Foundation Health and Safety Course
Maximising Safety and Minimising Risk
Foundation Health and Safety provides the training required by law for all staff working within the care sector. These essential skills ensure care homes operate to legal standards providing a safe and healthy environment to services users.
Endorsed by Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance (HABC)
Foundation Health and Safety offers a host of benefits and features:
- Delivers cost effective induction training to a consistent standard.
- Improves staff training which leads to better audits and inspections from officers and a higher level of service.
- Reduces (or eliminates) the risk of accidents within care homes and meets legal Health and Safety requirements.
- Shows ‘real life’ examples making the training relevant to the learner.
- Fully interactive content helps learners retain information and apply it in practical work situations.
- Overcomes barriers to using e-learning in the workplace by using our tablet PC, the el-box™ which provides a fun and easy platform for learning.
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Course Contents
Foundation Health and Safety is divided into 15 modules. Course duration is 6-9 hours and requires no prior knowledge of Health and Safety or IT Skills.
Course modules:
- Introduction
- Risk assessment
- Accidents and ill health
- Hazardous substances
- Workplace health, safety and welfare
- Fire prevention
- First aid
- Equipment safety
- Electricity
- Occupational health
- Ergonomics
- Manual handling
- Health and safety law
- Infection control
- Health and Safety within healthcare
"We've found interactive computer-based learning to be one of the most powerful tools we have to achieve our objectives. "
David Hoare, Retail Director, Hall & Woodhouse