Slips and Trips: Intermediate
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Our intermediate slips and trips course has been developed in collaboration with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the UK government agency responsible for the regulations of workplace health, safety and welfare. This online course covers a range of possible causes for slips, trips and falls in the workplace, how you can design and plan to avoid them, and provides details of the right procedures to help you deal with them.
Course Level: Intermediate
Duration: 4-5 Hours
Accreditation: CPD Certified
Certificate: Self-Printed Certificate
Description
Our Online Slips and Trips: Intermediate course has been created in collaboration with the HSE and provides in-depth and knowledge into how to prevent slips and trips in the workplace.
It provides more depth than our introductory course, and has been personalised for different workplaces and environments and designed for anyone in a managerial or supervisor role, middle managers or team leaders.
The course has been designed to ensure an easy, engaging learner journey for you. It includes a wide variety of resources and is broken down into 11-bite sized modules that can be accessed in any order, allowing you to tailor the learning to your needs.
We have worked with the Health and Safety Executive in the development of this course who have provided both knowledge content and reviewed the material we have produced.
The HSE are the UK government agency responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare, and for research into occupational risks in the UK.
We also offer Slips and Trips: Introduction | Advanced
Who should take this course
Our Slips and Trips: Intermediate course is suitable for all workplace environments for a wide range of managerial staff. Though if you are a Health and Safety Manager, and are responsible for the overall health and safety compliance of your company, you will be more suited to our Slips and Trips: Advanced course.
Workplaces where slips, trips and falls may occur include offices, warehouses, manufacturing plants/units, food preparation areas, restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, residential homes, construction sites, retail units, healthcare locations and much, much more.
Duration
Our online health and safety course will take approximately 4-5 hours to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. You can proceed as quickly or slowly as you like, and there is no limit on how long you can take to do the course and your progress will be automatically saved so you can log in and out as you please.
Entry requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
Test and certificate
The end of course test consists of 30 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six 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. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.
Legislation covered in this course includes:
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977 and Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations 1996
- Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
- Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
What you'll learn
- Outline why slips and trips are a risk and why they can happen
- Be able to explain the slip potential model
- Understand how contaminants affect slip resistance and the importance of controlling contamination
- Appreciate the role of cleaning techniques and materials in accident prevention
- Recognise the properties of different flooring materials and types and how to clean and maintain them
- Understand and interpret technical data sheets
- Selecting suitable footwear, and how to test and maintain it
- Understand potential environmental factors and the range of interventions to minimise their impact
- Understand the importance of a reporting system
- Appreciate the main causes of trips and identify simple interventions to reduce them
- Be aware of the relevant legislation
- Know the hierarchy for slips and trips prevention
- How to conduct a risk assessment
Suitable for
- Office Workers
- Food preparation workers
- Construction site workers
- Healthcare workers
- Public sector workers
- New staff in a wide variety of workplaces
- Trainees
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.
Self-Printed Certificate Option
Upon completion of the course, a digital certificate will be available to download instantly.
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