Level 2 Award in Health & Safety.
Course Cost £50 Per Person
Course Duration 1 Day (6 Hours)
Course overview
The Health & Safety certificate has been designed as a first level course incorporating fundamental occupational health and safety knowledge for all employees that will enable them to contribute to any health and safety management system.
Who should attend?
The course is designed for managers, supervisors, business owners, and anyone responsible for health and safety for small and medium-size businesses Any employees with little or no prior knowledge of current health & safety legislation who require a nationally recognised certificate.
Course contents
- Health and safety at work
- Prevention of accidents and ill health
- First aid at work
- Workplace health, safety and welfare
- Electricity
- Occupational health
- Ergonomics and workstation design
- Health and safety law
- Risk assessment
- Personal protective equipment
- Work equipment
- Fire prevention
- Hazardous substances
- Manual handling noise
Assessment information
Assessment is by a short multiple choice examination test consisting of 30 multi-choice questions.
Oral tests are available to ensure that candidates with learning difficulties or disabilities can also access the training and achieve success.
Course Dates
| Start Date | Day | Location |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| TBC | Bletchley |
Level 2 Award in Health & Safety.
Course Cost £50 Per Person
Course Duration 1 Day (6 Hours)
Course overview
The Health & Safety certificate has been designed as a first level course incorporating fundamental occupational health and safety knowledge for all employees that will enable them to contribute to any health and safety management system.
Who should attend?
The course is designed for managers, supervisors, business owners, and anyone responsible for health and safety for small and medium-size businesses Any employees with little or no prior knowledge of current health & safety legislation who require a nationally recognised certificate.
Course contents
- Health and safety at work
- Prevention of accidents and ill health
- First aid at work
- Workplace health, safety and welfare
- Electricity
- Occupational health
- Ergonomics and workstation design
- Health and safety law
- Risk assessment
- Personal protective equipment
- Work equipment
- Fire prevention
- Hazardous substances
- Manual handling noise
Assessment information
Assessment is by a short multiple choice examination test consisting of 30 multi-choice questions.
Oral tests are available to ensure that candidates with learning difficulties or disabilities can also access the training and achieve success.
Course Dates
| Start Date | Day | Location |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| TBC | Bletchley |
Level 2 Award in Manual Handling
Course Cost £50 Per Person
Course Duration 1 Day (6 Hours)
Course overview
The Level Two Award in manual handling qualification provides essential information about manual handling hazards and their control. To give you maximum flexibility this one qualification gives you two possible outcomes.
Part 1 can be delivered as a half-day programme for learners who only wish to gain the Level 2 Award in Principles of Manual Handling. Those who need to learn about practical manual handling techniques can stay on for a further half day training session and assessment to gain the full Level 2 Award in Manual Handling.
Principles and Practice
This manual handling training qualification to benefit anyone who has to carry out any manual handling activities at work by introducing them to the hazards of manual handling, the risks involved and the controls that are available to help prevent injury.
The course in addition will teach learners techniques to lift, carry, push and pull objects safely within their individual capabilities with the aim of reducing the number of work-related injuries associated with manual handling.
Who should attend?
Any employee.
Course contents
Part 1 will allow learners to understand the risks associated with manual handling and to make recommendations to manage those risks.
Part 2 will allow learners to apply the principles of safer handling to a range of everyday manual handling tasks.
The manual handling training programme covers the following topics:
- Manual handling hazards, risks and controls
- How manual handling operations can cause injury and harm
- The scope of legal requirements and where guidance can be found
- The process for assessing manual handling risks
- The value of risk assessment and how it applies to safe manual handling practice
- Premises and equipment
- Manual handling techniques – lifting loads from low levels/working at low levels/lowering from height/pushing loads/pulling loads/carrying/team handling
Assessment information
Multiple choice questions plus practical assessmenT
Course Dates
| Start Date | Day | Location |
| 24/08/16 | Wed | Bletchley |
| 21/09/16 | Wed | Bletchley |
| Bletchley |
Level 2 Award in Food Safety
Course Cost £50.00 Per Person
Course Duration 1 Day (6 Hours)
Course overview
The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 require that the proprietor of a food business must ensure that they and all employees who handle and prepare open food are instructed and/or trained in food hygiene matters to a level appropriate to their job.
Our food safety course will give you the basic knowledge about food safety procedures you will need if you are interested in working in the food business or if you want to build on your existing knowledge. The foundation certificate in food hygiene has been designed as a first level course incorporating fundamental food hygiene knowledge for all food handlers.
Who should attend?
Who should attend? This course is recommended for anyone working in the catering and hospitality industries and food production. Any employees with little or no prior knowledge of current food hygiene legislation who require a nationally recognised certificate.
Course contents
- Introduction to food hygiene
- Prevention of contamination and food poisoning
- Personal hygiene
- Food pests
- Food safety legislation
- Premises and equipment
- Food poisoning and microbiology
- Cleaning and disinfection
Assessment information
Candidates are required to complete a short test consisting of 30 multiple-choice questions of which a pass rate of 20 or more has been set. Computer tests are available to ensure that candidates with learning difficulties or disabilities can also access the training and achieve success.
Course Dates
| Start Date | Day | Location |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| Bletchley | ||
| Bletchley |
Level 2 Award in Fire Safety
Course Cost £50 Per Person
Course Duration 1 Day (6 Hours)
Course overview
The Level 2 Award in Fire Safety Principles allows candidates to develop their basic fire safety awareness.
It is particularly useful for employees who are to have a designated responsibility for workplace fire safety, for example as fire wardens or fire marshals, and provides the knowledge that will allow them to carry out duties relating to fire safety and emergency procedures. Successfully completing the Level 2 Award in Fire Safety Principles training course will enable you to become a fire warden/marshal in your organisation.
Who should attend?
Developed for employees who hope to develop their basic fire safety awareness in order to assist their employer by undertaking more specific fire safety roles in the workplace to manage fire risk (e.g. as fire wardens/marshals/stewards etc.)
Course contents
- Fire hazards
- Characteristics of fire and smoke spread
- Fire control methods
- Means of escape
- Fire detection and raising the alarm
- Extinguishing fires
- Fixed fire-fighting systems
- The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
- Legal duties and penalties
- Fire risk assessment
- Fire safety inspections
- Role of the fire warden
- Induction briefings
Assessment information
Multiple choice question examination.
Course Dates
| Date | Day | Location |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| TBC | Bletchley | |
| Bletchley |
Level 2 Award in Moving People Safely
Course Cost £50.00 Per Person
Course Duration 1 Day (16 hours)
Course overview
The Level two Award in Moving People Safely is intended as a further development qualification for those working in areas where the assistance and movement of people is a prerequisite part of their role. The qualification is underpinned by the safe principles of moving and handling but recognises the special skills required when assisting and moving people.
Who should attend?
The qualification is suitable for new starters in organisations where the movement and assistance of people is a key role as well as been suitable for refresher training.
Course contents
- Understand the personal health and dignity issue relating to the movement of a person by others
- Understand how a person handling plan and risk assessment reduce the risk of injury to everyone involved in moving a person
- Understand the principles, types of equipment and testing requirements associated with moving people safely
- Be able to apply safe principles when moving a person manually or with movement aids and equipment
Assessment information
Part one tests learner’s knowledge on the subject and is assessed by a 30 minute, 15 question multiple choice examination. Successful learners must achieve at least 10 out 15 on the test to pass this element of the qualification.
Part two is a competency based assessment carried out by the nominated tutor. Candidates must practically demonstrate the application of the correct techniques as indicated within the learning outcomes of the unit.
Course Dates
| Start Date | End Date | Day | Location |
| TBC | Bletchley | ||
| TBC | Bletchley | ||
| TBC | Bletchley |
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