Awareness of Health and Safety at Work, Fire Safety and Level 2 Food Hygiene Training Package

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Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene for Catering Course
An Introduction to Health and Safety at Work
Fire Safety
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Package Overview

Format

  • Intermediate
  • 4-7 Study Hours
  • Online Study
  • Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

  • 4-7 CPD Hours
  • Meets UK / EU Food Handlers Training Requirements
  • RoSPA Assured

Package description

This training pack is designed to teach both employees and employers why health and safety in the workplace is so important in relation to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

One of the most important areas that staff members in any organisation need to be trained up on is health and safety. Workplace health and safety helps to minimise the risk of injuries and accidents from occurring, whilst also protecting your business by embracing safer working standards.

According to the Health and Safety Executive, in 2015/16 30.4 million working days were lost due to self-reported work-related illness or injury. By giving employees good Health and Safety training, you reduce the risk of workplace accidents and adhere to your legal obligation of preventing accidents in the workplace.

This training pack is designed to teach both employees and employers why health and safety in the workplace is so important in relation to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

The courses that make up this training pack are CPD certified and are ideal as part of an induction for new employees or for those needing to refresh their knowledge. No previous qualifications or experience is necessary.

What courses are included in this training package?

Within this training package are three of our most popular online training courses to help ensure workplace safety in Awareness of Health and Safety at Work, Fire Safety Training and Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene

Awareness of Health & Safety at Work, Fire Safety and Level 2 Food Hygiene Training Pack

Food hygiene and fire safety training are essential for food handlers in any catering industry, including hotels, guest houses, restaurants, public houses, cafes or schools.

The Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering course will help you to raise understanding and achieve good standards of food safety and hygiene within your business. Upon completion, learners will have an understanding of a wide range of key food safety issues, including the three main types of food safety hazard, their sources and methods of control.

The Fire Safety course will teach your staff about the causes of fire, detection and warning systems, evacuation procedure and how to tackle small fires when necessary. The training will help you meet your legal obligation under the Fire Safety Regulations (The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005) to provide information, instruction and training to employees about fire precautions in the workplace.

All businesses have a legal obligation to ensure that their employees are protected from harm in the workplace. This online Awarerness of Health and Safety course helps you to fulfil legal requirements for providing workplace training; it also promotes staff awareness that can lead to greater efficiency, lower insurance costs and a reduction in lost time.

E-learning content

Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety course

  • Understand common food hygiene terminology
  • Understand the impact of food-bourne illness
  • Know about food law & legislation
  • Understand food storage and preservation
  • Understand the key legislation involving fire safety

Fire Safety course

  • Understand the legal requirements for work-place safety
  • Understand the importance of an evacuation plan and key evacuation legislation
  • Understand the different types of fire extinguisher to use

Awareness of Health and Safety course

  • Accident prevention, investigation and reporting best practice
  • Risk Assessment
  • Hazards and Controls: Fire and Electricity
  • Hazards and Controls: COSHH and PPE
  • Communication and Environment

Accreditation:

The Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering course is RoSPA Assured. The certificate awarded for completion of this course contains an authorisation seal.

The content of all three of these courses have been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Guidelines.

Duration:

The Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene Course takes 2-3 hours to complete and Fire Safety and Awareness of Health and Safety at Work take 1-2 hours each to complete. The length of time taken to depends on how quickly you study and absorb the material.

The Learning Management System automatically tracks your progress so you can proceed as quickly or as slowly as you like and pause the training if you need to complete it in stages.

Test and Certificate:

Each end of course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test three times at no extra cost.

If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.

This course is not a formal RQF food safety & hygiene qualification, the levels only indicate the type of course so that businesses can choose whom it is suitable for.

You will learn

  • Understand the key principles of workplace health and safety
  • Outline accident prevention, investigation and reporting
  • Communicate health and safety information
  • Recognise common health and safety hazards and how they can be controlled
  • Describe how your spine works
  • Identify common injuries and explain how to avoid them

Who is it for?

Roles including:

  • Office Workers
  • Retail Staff
  • Construction Staff
  • Hospitality Staff
  • Manufacturing Staff
  • Warehouse Staff
  • Healthcare Staff
  • Anyone working with or handling food

Legislation

The primary piece of legislation that this training pack covers is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which relates to an employer's responsibility to their employees around providing adequate training for all staff members to embrace proper health and safety procedures and principles. By having staff undertake the courses included in this Health and Safety at Work Training Pack, you are directly addressing legal staff training requirements around providing training on health and safety.

How the online courses work

  • Find a course

    To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.

    Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.

  • Buy the course

    When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.

    Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.

    If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.

  • Take the course

    This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.

    The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.

  • Your Certificate

    Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.

    If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.