E-Learning – Offering flexibility in training

Have you discovered our E-Learning? 

 
E-Learning offers the benefits of providing the chance for your candidates to gain essential Health and Safety knowledge and expertise, without needing to release them to classroom-type training that might involve the time and expense of travel and being out of the business. 

We offer a variety of health and safety related training courses and assessments, providing an accessible and flexible way of training staff.  E-Learning is web-based and can be accessed at work or at home, at any time.  Our courses are visual and interactive and demonstrate examples of workplace safety issues and how to deal with them.  Courses can be completed a module at a time if necessary – just pick up where you left off when you log back in.

Our most popular E-Learning courses include Manual Handling, Working at Height, Slips, Trips and Falls and Asbestos Awareness.  Other courses available include Fire Safety Essentials, Display Screen Equipment, PPE and Fire Warden training, all at very competitive rates.  To register candidates, we only need their full name and the email address they wish to use to access their login details.  Upon successful completion of a course, candidates can print a certificate of their achievement.

The full range of courses and assessments we offer are shown below:-

·         Asbestos Awareness	·         Code of Conduct	·         Contractors Safety Procedures
·         CPR Essentials	·         Cyber Security	·         Drivewize Training
·         Ebola Virus and Disease	·         Electrical Safety	·         Ergowize – DSE Training
·         Evacuation Procedures	·         Fire Safety Essentials	·         Fire Wardens
·         Food Safety Essentials	·         Hazardous Substances (COSHH)	·         Health and Safety Induction
·         Homeworking Policy	·         Legionella	·         Lone Working Essentials
·         Managing Health and Safety	·         Manual Handling	·         Modern Slavery
·         Money Laundering	·         Noise at Work	·         Pandemic Awareness
·         Pandemic Procedures	·         Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)	·         Prevent Duty
·         Risk Assessment	·         Safeguarding	·         Security and Terror Alerts
·         Slips, Trips and Falls	·         Social Media Policy	·         Whistleblowing
·         Working at Height

HR Courses

·         Alcohol and Drug Awareness	·         Anti-Bribery and Corruption	·         Bullying and Harassment Policy
·         Data Protection	·         Disciplinary Policy	·         Equality and Diversity Policy
·         Grievance Policy	·         Internet User Policy	·         New and Expectant Mothers Policy
·         Resource Efficiency	·         Stress Awareness

Assessments

·         DriveWize Assessment	·         Ergowize Assessment	·         Expectant Mother’s Risk Assessment
·         Homeworker Safety Risk Assessment	·         Lone Worker Risk Assessment	·         New Mother’s Risk Assessment

FREE TRIAL – find out more about E-Learning and a free trial of any of our courses by contacting us on 0333 577 0248 or admin@rhssltd.co.uk.

 

HSE Health and Safety Myths Buster

Can you stock plasters in a first aid box?

Issue

An employee had cut her finger in the workplace and a colleague tried to obtain a plaster from the first aid kit but there were none. The employee asked a manager if they could restock them but she replied that due to health and safety reasons i.e. allergies, plasters were no longer supplied for the first aid kit. The employee has since heard of other cases in workplaces that will not stock plasters in their first aid kits for similar reasons.

HSE Mythbuster Panel decision

There is no health and safety regulation which bans the provision of plasters, in fact HSE’s own guidance recommends that a first aid box should stock plasters. If the concern is about the small risk of allergic reaction to some types of plaster then this can be easily managed by stocking the hypoallergenic variety or simply asking the person being treated if they are allergic to plasters before they are applied.

Source: www.hse.gov.uk

 

Do you know your responsibilites under Construction and Design Management Regulations 2015?

 

Health and Safety in the news this week

Workplace deaths are down – but it’s “no cause for celebration”

The HSE’s latest provisional workplace fatality figures show that 137 people died at work in 2016/17, the second lowest year on record. But many key figures across health and safety are speaking out about the “hidden figures” of between 20,000 and 50,000 deaths each year due to past poor working conditions of heart and lung diseases and work cancers.

Work related suicides are now also thought to be more than 100 per year, and over 2,500 people each year are dying from mesothelioma, with the UK having the highest incidence of disease in the world.

The headline figures

Overall fatalities:

• 2015/16 – 147 workers died
• 2014/15 – 142 workers died
• 2013/14 – 136 workers died
• 2012/13 – 150 workers died
• 2011/12 – 171 workers died

Fatalities by sector:

This year the construction and agriculture sectors had the highest number of deaths:

• 30 construction
• 27 agriculture
• 19 manufacturing
• 14 logistics
• 14 waste industry
• 33 Other

Fatalities by accident types:

• Struck by moving vehicle 31
• Falls from a height 25
• Struck by moving object 20
• Trapped by something collapsing/overturning 10
• Contact with moving machinery 8
• Contact with electricity 8

The GMB union, which has members across every sector of the British economy, said the official workplace death figures hide tens of thousands of related deaths, saying that the figure of 137 is “just the tip of the iceberg” and that every death demands justice and enforcement.

A spokesperson for IOSH said: “Work-related fatalities are entirely preventable so we must strive to reduce this number further”.

A fuller assessment of work-related ill-health and injuries, drawing on the HSE’s full range of data sources, will be provided as part of the annual Health and Safety Statistics released on 1 November 2017.

Source: www.shponline.co.uk

HSE Health and Safety Myths Buster

Supermarket deli refused to leave plastic wrapping on liver sausage stating that it was a ‘choking hazard’

A Supermarket deli refused to leave plastic wrapping on liver sausage stating that it was a ‘choking hazard’.

The HSE Myth Busters Challenge Panel decided that there is no health and safety reason for refusing to leave the original plastic wrapping on fresh liver sausage. The decision to remove the plastic wrapping from the fresh food at point of sale makes no sense, especially as the product is likely to be wrapped in some other form of plastic bag before being handed to the customer. Claiming removal of the product’s original wrapping was necessary for health and safety reasons is indeed a myth!

Source: www.hse.gov.uk