H&S Supervisor

Training and Coaching for Personal and Business Development

Health and Safety for Supervisors and Managers

To provide an overview of Health and Safety legislation to enable supervisors and managers meet their legal responsibilities in the workplace.

Course Objectives

To enable course members to:

Understand the principles of Health and Safety legislation

Identify health risks occurring in the work situation

Maintain the safety of the workforce

Who is the Course For?

All personnel who have a supervisory or management role. The course is customised to particular groups either front-line management or those with a more "back-office" role

Duration/Format

One day - 6 hours

NVQ/SVQ Linkage

This course supports learning towards a range of NVQs/SVQs where health and safety issues are significant.

Instructor/Trainee Ratio

Max: 1:16 Min:

Course Content

Introduction
Principles of Health and Safety
- Legal Aspects, legislation, ACOPs, guidance notes
- Powers of HSE
Consultation with Employees
Health and Safety Legislation
- HASWA 1974
- Manual Handling Regulations
- Noise
- Hand Arm Vibration
- Management Regulations
- Risk Assessment
- COSHH Regulations
- PPE Regulations
- PUWER Regulations
- LOLER Regulations
- Working at Height Regulations
- Electrical Safety
Practical Risk Assessment

Facilities/Equipment required:

Venue

Warm, well lit room with adequate tables and chairs in open U, lighting and power points. Washroom and toilet facilities.
Site near the training room for the risk assessment if possible

Trainee

Pens and notebooks

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Last modified: 08/28/07