Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF Level 1 / SafeCert Level 1)
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Qualification Details
The Health and Safety in the Workplace Award is an awareness level award which provides a good workplace induction into health and safety at work or as a good refresher for employees.
The award has one unit with four learning outcomes as follows:
- Understand the importance of health, safety and welfare standards in the workplace
- State how the duties of employers contribute to a healthy and safe workplace
- State how the duties of employees contribute to a healthy and safe workplace
- Outline suitable workplace welfare arrangements
- Know how hazards and risks are controlled in the workplace
- Identify how hazards and risks contribute to workplace risk assessments
- State the importance of workers following procedures of work
- Outline how to use methods for controlling risk in the workplace
- Be aware of the main causes and effects of poor health and safety at work
- Outline the main causes of workplace injury
- Outline the main causes of workplace ill-health
- Outline the reasons why accidents occur
- State the effects of accidents at work
- Outline the need to report accidents and near misses at work
- Understand how health and safety information is communicated in the workplace
- Identify the main safety signs and signals found in the workplace
- List sources of health and safety information found in the workplace
- State the importance of workers notifying health and safety concerns to their employer
The qualification is assessed on health and safety at work knowledge in the form of a multiple choice question paper.
