Workplace Health and Safety Awareness

About Course

A free, four-hour introduction to workplace health and safety. Learn to recognise hazards, assess risk, choose controls and respond to concerns across offices, warehouses and worksites. Covers traffic, manual handling, screens, equipment, substances, emergencies, PPE, welfare, fatigue, stress, lone working and contractor coordination. Includes 12 modules, 24 lessons with activities, 30 quiz questions and a fictional workplace-review assignment.

LO01: Distinguish safety hazards from health exposures and describe employer, supervisor and worker responsibilities.
LO02: Identify hazards, people at risk and proportionate controls using the control hierarchy.
LO03: Choose practical controls for housekeeping, slips, trips, storage and workplace traffic.
LO04: Recognise manual-handling and display-screen risks and propose suitable task or workstation changes.
LO05: Respond safely to defective equipment and distinguish stopping equipment from verified isolation.
LO06: Identify exposure routes and explain controls for substances, dust, noise and vibration.
LO07: Explain emergency reporting, evacuation, accountability and first-aid boundaries.
LO08: Explain PPE selection, fit, compatibility, pre-use checks and limitations.
LO09: Recognise welfare, heat and fatigue concerns and escalate unsafe conditions.
LO10: Identify work-related psychosocial risks and appropriate lone-working safeguards.
LO11: Recognise contractor coordination, permit and competence requirements for higher-risk work.
LO12: Report events factually, prioritise corrective actions and evaluate evidence of improvement.

Course Content

Safety and health foundations
Recognise immediate and long-term harm and explain shared responsibilities.

01 | What workplace health and safety means
02 | Responsibilities, cooperation and speaking up

Recognising hazards and managing risk
Assess who may be harmed, select controls and review changes.

Safe movement and housekeeping
Prevent slips, trips, falling objects and contact with vehicles.

Manual handling and workstations
Reduce physical strain through task and workstation design.

Equipment and electrical safety
Recognise defects and respect maintenance and isolation boundaries.

Substances and occupational health
Recognise exposure routes and control airborne and physical hazards.

Emergency readiness
Respond to alarms and obtain appropriate first aid.

Personal protective equipment
Select, check and use PPE within its limitations.

Welfare, heat and fatigue
Recognise conditions that undermine safe, healthy work.

Psychosocial risks and lone working
Address work-related stress and risks of working without immediate help.

Contractors and higher-risk tasks
Coordinate shared work and recognise specialist authorisation needs.

Reporting and improvement
Learn from events, verify actions and participate in prevention.

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Course Content

Safety and health foundations Recognise immediate and long-term harm and explain shared responsibilities.

01 | What workplace health and safety means

02 | Responsibilities, cooperation and speaking up

Recognising hazards and managing risk Assess who may be harmed, select controls and review changes.

03 | Hazards, risk and people who may be harmed

04 | Choosing controls that address the cause

Safe movement and housekeeping Prevent slips, trips, falling objects and contact with vehicles.

05 | Slips, trips and safe housekeeping

06 | Pedestrians, vehicles and stored materials

Manual handling and workstations Reduce physical strain through task and workstation design.

07 | Manual handling: redesign before technique

08 | Display screens and comfortable work design

Equipment and electrical safety Recognise defects and respect maintenance and isolation boundaries.

09 | Safe equipment use and defect reporting

10 | Electrical defects and isolation boundaries

Substances and occupational health Recognise exposure routes and control airborne and physical hazards.

11 | Hazardous substances and exposure routes

12 | Dust, noise, vibration and delayed harm

Emergency readiness Respond to alarms and obtain appropriate first aid.

13 | Alarms, evacuation and accountability

14 | First aid and obtaining emergency help

Personal protective equipment Select, check and use PPE within its limitations.

15 | Selecting PPE for the actual task

16 | PPE checks, use, storage and replacement

Welfare, heat and fatigue Recognise conditions that undermine safe, healthy work.

17 | Welfare facilities and heat concerns

18 | Fatigue, workload and readiness for work

Psychosocial risks and lone working Address work-related stress and risks of working without immediate help.

19 | Work-related stress and respectful work

20 | Lone working and reliable contact

Contractors and higher-risk tasks Coordinate shared work and recognise specialist authorisation needs.

21 | Contractors and shared workplace risks

22 | Permits, work at height and specialist boundaries

Reporting and improvement Learn from events, verify actions and participate in prevention.

23 | Reporting incidents, near misses and concerns

24 | Action plans, verification and continuing improvement