Level 2 Award for Workplace Health & Safety

The Health & Safety Level 2 Course

The Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace provides learners with the basic knowledge for keeping themselves and those around them safe in a work environment, covering such important skills as using protective equipment, dealing with accidents and controlling risks.

The Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace is ideal for organisations that wish to adopt a standard approach to training their staff in health and safety to ensure the basic legislative requirements regarding appropriate precautions is met by employees, work placement students or apprentices.

This qualification is for those with no formal training in health and safety, and could be used for those looking to return to work.

It has been designed to give learners knowledge of the basic health and safety practices essential in the workplace and prepare them for progress to higher level training.

Topics covered include:

• an understanding in the responsibilities of employers and employees
• the benefits of good health and safety
• steps to a risk assessment and how they can reduce accidents
• near misses and ill-health
• typical hazards and controls in a workplace
• common causes of accidents, near misses and ill-health
• emergency procedures
• the importance of recording accidents, near misses and ill-health