Health & Safety in the Workplace Level 2

About This Course

Ensuring the health and safety of not only yourself, but your employees is a concern every employer faces. Yet by putting procedures into place to maximise the welfare of your employees, you can minimise risk and ensure a healthy working environment.

Our Health and Safety in the Workplace Level 2 course is designed with this exact purpose in mind. Within this distance learning course you can gain a thorough knowledge on health and safety, as well as all the procedures and policies involved, so you can create a workplace that is safe for all.

At the same time, you can explore health and safety management systems; become familiar with common causes of accidents, and know how to investigate workplace welfare – all from the comfort of your own home.

This award winning course has been purposefully tailored for home study, making it ideal for those who can’t get into college every day.

Instead, you can absorb all of the skills this course has got to offer at a time, pace and location of your choosing, and do it on your own terms. No pressure. No strict deadlines. No stress.

You can mould this course to suit your work commitments and still gain an impressive qualification.

Course Benefits

Comprised of 6 units, each unit serves to enhance your knowledge and understanding of health and safety, and its applications within the workplace. By participating in its written assignments, you can also use this course to demonstrate your competency of the syllabus as well as improve your ability to keep your working environment safe, healthy and happy.

This course will:

• Expand your knowledge on safety policies and procedures.
• Enable you to learn on your own terms, from the comfort of your own home and at a pace of your choosing.
• Provide you with a stress free, convenient way to study – no deadlines, no examinations and no classrooms.
• Supply you with a nationally recognised qualification that will look great on your CV.

Course Units

Unit 1: Basics of Workplace Safety

Unit 2: Health & Safety Workplace Policies and Procedures

Unit 3: Managing Health and Safety Within the Workplace

Unit 4: Handling and Storing Materials Safely

Unit 5: Risk Control

Unit 6: Workplace Welfare and Emergency Preparedness

Assessment

This course is assessed through a series of written assignments that will test your knowledge of the course materials taught on the syllabus. These will need to be submitted to your tutor for marking, whereupon they will supply you with valuable feedback and tips that can be used to boost your overall grade.

No external examinations are required, although you will have to perform your own research.

Required Knowledge

There are no entry requirements for this course.

Awarding Body

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme (QLS). QLS endorses high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This means that the course has undergone external quality checks by the awarding body to ensure it meets a high standard.

The learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

Support

From day one you’ll receive the continuous support, advice and guidance of our personal tutors as they seek to maximise your learning potential.

So, even though you’ll be studying our course from the comfort of your own home, you’ll still be able to contact our personal tutors and student support team and get all of your questions answered.

Similarly, the feedback and tips you’ll receive upon submission of your written assignments can be used to help improve your examination techniques and overall grades.