Qube Learning recognise the importance of keeping employees, customers and visitors safe whilst in the workplace, we have developed a range of informative courses that aims to provide the knowledge to achieve this.
Over 200 people are killed each year in accidents at work and over one million people are injured. Over two million suffer illnesses caused by, or made worse by, their work.
There are sound economic reasons for reducing work-related accidents and ill-health, as well as ethical and regulatory reasons.
Economic Reasons
Besides reducing costs, effective safety and health management promotes business efficiency. Thousands of work-related accidents, resulting in more than three days off work are reported to the Health and Safety Authority each year. Work-related diseases and ill-health are more difficult to measure due to their long latency period but result in excess of one million days lost at work each year. These accident and ill-health cases are due to failures and deficiencies in the occupational safety and health management in organisations.
Legal Reasons
The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires all duty holders to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety, health and welfare of workers and members of the public and to manage and conduct all work activities in such a way as to ensure their safety, health and welfare. This requires all who have this legal responsibility to be proactive in managing their safety, health and welfare responsibilities and deal with them in a systematic way. This section should help organisations to improve their safety and health performance by providing advice on how safety and health should be managed, and in the process help them to comply with their legal requirements.
Moral and Ethical Reasons
The proactive management of safety and health in the workplace helps organisations prevent injuries and ill-health at work. This guidance should help organisations reduce the personal loss caused as a result of accidents and ill-health at work.
Providing health & safety information and training helps you to:
- Ensure you or your employees are not injured or made ill by the work they do;
- Develop a positive health & safety culture, where safe & healthy working becomes second nature to everyone;
- Find out how you could manage health and safety better;
- Meet your legal duty to protect the health & safety of your employees.
Effective training:
- Will contribute towards making your employees competent in health & safety;
- Can help your business avoid the distress that accidents and ill health cause;
- Can help you avoid the financial costs of accidents & occupational ill health.
Health & Safety Courses
Under the Health & Safety at Work Act (1974), we have a number of responsibilities to our employees. One of which is a safe working environment and safe access and egress (in and out of a building). Fire is an integral part of this, and a business has to implement a number of measures.
This training course is for all staff within an organisation and is absolutely critical for those that act as fire wardens.
At the end of this fire awareness training course participants will be able to:
- Identify the statistics and causes of fire
- Recognise the methods of fire prevention
- Recognise what actions to take if they discover a fire
- Identify the fire triangle along with the elements that are needed to cause a fire
- State the various fire extinguishers within their workplace
- Identify various types of safety signs within the workplace
The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) is about preventing people from being harmed by work or becoming ill through work and the law applies to all businesses, however large or small. This Health and Safety course is therefore vital and suitable for all staff members to equip them with the required training to remain safe and healthy at work.
At the end of this Health & Safety Training Course participants will be able to:
- Identify the key responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act (HASAWA)
- Recognise the employees and employers responsibilities under the HASAWA
- Identify what is a hazard and how to control the risks while at work
- State the health and safety control measures within your work place
- Recognise the accident reporting process within your workplace
The aim of this course is to develop manual handling skills and awareness of manual handling. The course is suitable for anyone involved in any kind of lifting, pulling or pushing in the workplace.
By the end of the health and safety training workshop participants will:
- Be aware of the dangers they face in the working environment
- Be able to explain the make up of and dangers to the spine
- Know how to assess and approach a lift
- Know four different lifting techniques
- Have practised four lifting techniques in a safe environment
This course aims to give you the necessary information to enable you to carry out a thorough and effective accident investigation. Managers, leaders, trainers, health and safety officers and anyone involved in health and safety training and/or procedures would benefit from this 1 day course.
At the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Describe and implement Accident Investigation Procedures
- State the reasons for accident investigations
- Identify all the potential sources of information
- Describe and demonstrate an ability to reach sound conclusions
- Explain and demonstrate an ability to reach practical, effective recommendations and communicate these effectively
This course looks at how to identify hazards within the workplace, recognise the risk and implement a control measure.
The course is suitable for managers, leaders, trainers, health and safety officers and anyone involved in health and safety training and/or procedures. This risk assessment training course will give participants the necessary information and skills to enable them to carry out a thorough and effective accident investigation.
At the end of this risk assessment training course participants will be able to:
- Identify the key responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act (HASAWA)
- Explain the difference between Hazards, Risks, and Control Measures
- Identify what safety signs and Safe Systems of Work are within your workplace
- Identify the part accidents play within the risk assessment process
- Recognise the 4 corner of the risk assessment process
- Demonstrate your understanding of risk assessments through practical exercises