Health and Safety Awareness including Fire Safety in Social Care

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.