Health and Safety in Social Care with Fire Safety Training

CPD Certified
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With this Health & Safety Awareness including Fire Safety understand the health and safety responsibilities within the social care setting, how to successfully complete a risk assessment, how to implement security measures and how to promote fire safety in the workplace.

Course Level: Introductory Course

Duration: 30 Minutes

Accreditation: CPD Certified

Certificate: Self-Printed Certificate

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Description

Health and safety in health and social care is everyone’s responsibility to ensure staff and those in your care are kept safe and out of harm’s way.

From exploring the use of risk assessments and how to handle hazardous substances, to discovering how to implement security measures, manage stress and promote fire safety in the work setting, this short course covers all the basics and is the perfect introduction.

This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge of Health & Safety Awareness inc. Fire Safety. 

Learning Outcomes for this course include:

  • Describe your own responsibilities and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety in the work setting 
  • Explain the use of risk assessments 
  • Know how to handle hazardous substances 
  • Know how to implement security measures in the work setting
  • Know how to manage stress
  • Describe and know how to promote fire safety in the work setting

Accreditation 

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines. 

Certification 

At the beginning of each module learners will be asked to answer a “knowledge check” question. Answering the question correctly will allow learners the opportunity to skip this section. However, if they wish to complete it anyway, they are still able to. 

On completion of this course, learners will be able to print a

Virtual College certificate. Learners must complete the course to obtain their certificate. 

Duration 

30 study minutes to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material. 

Target Audience 

This training is designed for This training is designed for care workers and support workers wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role as well as for anyone working in a Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training. 

Entry Requirements 

There are no specific entry requirements for this course. 

Framework

Our Health and Safety Awareness including Fire Safety in Social Care online training course is mapped to the Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework. 

Here we explain the framework and its importance. 

Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework:

The Core and Mandatory Training framework was produced by skills for care in partnership with a panel of social care employers, learning providers and representative organisations and was updated in line with CQC’s revised inspection framework.

It sets out a series of minimum learning objectives and a suggested refresher frequency, to support care organisations to provide their staff with a foundation of learning and refresher opportunities.

What you'll learn

  • Describe your own responsibilities and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety in the work setting
  • Explain the use of risk assessments
  • Know how to handle hazardous substances
  • Know how to implement security measures in the work setting
  • Know how to manage stress
  • Describe and know how to promote fire safety in the work setting

Suitable for

  • Care workers in residential/domiciliary settings, or support workers, wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role
  • For anyone working in a Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training

Certification

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.

If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.

Example Certificate

Self-Printed Certificate Option

Upon completion of the course, a digital certificate will be available to download instantly.

CPD Certified

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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