Health and Safety Level 3 in the Workplace

This Health & Safety in the Workplace course equips supervisors, team leaders and managers with the knowledge they need to create safer, more compliant working environments.

The e-Learning course is designed to develop a broad, practical understanding of health and safety responsibilities across any sector. Split into six comprehensive modules, it covers everything from risk assessments and incident reporting to managing occupational health and building a strong safety culture.

Learners will explore key legislation including the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. They'll also gain insight into specific topics such as COSHH, working at height, first aid obligations, permit-to-work systems and mental health in the workplace.

The course emphasises not just compliance, but competence – helping learners understand the moral, legal and financial implications of poor safety standards, and equipping them with the tools to take real ownership of health and safety within their teams.

It positions health and safety as a core leadership responsibility, not just a legal requirement.

• Assured by the Chartered Institue of Environmental Health (CIEH)
• Work towards compliance with UK Health and Safety legislation
• Certificate on successful completion
• Train online at your own pace
• Course duration: 8 - 9 Hours
• Unlimited resits at no cost

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Who is this Health and Safety Training for?

Given the course length and the depth of its content, this online training is ideal for managers and supervisors within their organisation. It’s perfect for those who want to be a positive force in promoting a thorough, engaging, and competent health and safety culture.

A background in health and safety isn’t required, though it can be helpful. This course is suitable for anyone who wants to become an effective team leader in creating a safer and more compliant working environment.

For employees with no basic training in Health and Safety, it's recommended they complete an awareness focused course such as an introduction to health and safety.

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Health and Safety Certificate

This training course and it's content has been Assured by Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Awarding Body.

Upon passing the online assessment you will have the options to both print and download your Level 3 Health and Safety Certificate in PDF format. In addition to this an automated email will also be sent to your chosen email address containing a link to your certificate ensuring you always have access to a copy.

Furthermore, a QR code is displayed on each certificate which when scanned by a smartphone links to our certification database. This allows employers, auditors and local authority inspectors, for example, to establish a certificates validity instantly and at any time.

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Course Aim

The aim of the online course is to part the learner with a clear understanding of the role the individual will need to undertake and an organisation's legal responsibilities in regards to workplace safety, focusing on what will be required of them when taking a senior level role.

They will become familliar of the expected procedures and the principles of risk assessing, developing their own competent processes to help protect the employee workforce.

For those looking to expand their knowledge further or gain a recognised qualification in safety management, we also offer online IOSH training courses with tutor support.

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Learning Objectives

On completion of the course, you should be able to understand:

• State the potential costs of poor standards of workplace health and safety to both the individual and the employer.
• Explain the difference between primary and secondary health and safety legislation.
• Recognise and identify hazards and risks
• Identify common workplace accidents and link these to human, occupational and environmental factors
• Describe common work-related ill health conditions and their causes
• Explain ‘health and safety culture’ and identify the characteristics of a positive one
• Describe the role of supervisors and managers in promoting good standards of health and safety

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Training Course Content

This course is made up of the following modules:

• Module 1 - Introduction to online Health and Safety Level 3 training

  This section introduces the learner to the course. It looks at the costs of poor standards of workplace health and safety, common health and safety terms, categories of risk, managing health and safety and workplace hazards.

• Module 2 - Health and Safety Legislation

  This module explores the differences between primary and secondary health and safety legislation, employer and employee duties, the legal status and practical application of Approved Codes of Practice, guidance and other publications, the powers of enforcement officers and the enforcement actions and penalties for breaches of health and safety law.

• Module 3 - Accidents in the workplace

  This module covers common workplace accidents and the link to human, occupational and environmental factors, the legal and organisational requirements with respect to reporting and recording accidents and near misses, how to carry out an incident investigation and how to prevent accidents for a range of common workplace incidents.

• Module 4 - Ill health in the workplace

  This module covers common work-related ill health conditions and their causes, differences between acute and chronic health effects, legal and organisational duty to report incidents of work-related ill health, hazards that cause ill health, and suitable control measures, the role of health surveillance in controlling work-related ill health and the requirements for welfare and first-aid provision in the workplace.

• Module 5 - Organisation and Management

  This module concentrates on ‘health and safety culture’ and how to identify a positive one, the requirements for providing health and safety information to employees, the need for employee representation and consultation on health and safety and the role of effective communication, the process of risk assessments and when they should be reviewed, situations where specific risk assessments are required, competencies required of risk assessors, processes of monitoring and auditing workplace health and safety and the requirements for record keeping health and safety records.

• Module 6 - The role of supervisors

  This module covers the role of supervisors and managers in promoting good standards of health and safety, the role of PPE in controlling hazards, procedures for monitoring the effectiveness of control measures, methods for motivating staff to work safely, staff training needs and appropriate delivery of training, methods for dealing with conflict and disputes and the actions required in emergency situations.

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Assessment

On completion of the course lessons and training material an online assessment will automatically unlock. The assessment will contain 40 multiple-choice questions and a mark of 82% or above will be required to pass.

The assessment will be marked instantly and so you will know straight away if you have passed or not.

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