CSTF - Health And Safety Online Training

This online training course covers a wide range of topics relating to health & safety within the healthcare industry, such as control measure, risk assessment and The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations Act.

Health and Safety in Healthcare Settings

1. Introduction to Health and Safety:

• Importance of health and safety in the workplace healthcare settings
• Legal responsibilities and obligations healthcare settings

2. Organizational Commitment to Safety:

• Understanding the organization's commitment to delivering services safely healthcare settings
• Policies and procedures for maintaining health and safety healthcare settings

3. Legislation, Policies, and Procedures:

• Importance of acting in ways consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures healthcare settings
• Understanding the implications of non-compliance healthcare settings

4. Consultation and Communication:

• Organization's arrangements for consulting with employees on health and safety matters healthcare settings
• Importance of communication in maintaining a safe work environment healthcare settings

5. Health and Safety Policy:

• Locating the organization's health and safety policy healthcare settings
• Understanding the arrangements for implementing it healthcare settings

6. Hazard, Risk, and Risk Assessment:

• Definition and understanding of hazard, risk, and risk assessment healthcare settings
• Importance of risk assessment in identifying and managing hazards healthcare settings

7. Workplace Hazards:

• Recognition of common workplace hazards (e.g., electricity, slips, trips and falls, chemicals and substances, stress, physical and verbal abuse, traffic routes, display screen equipment, workstations, and the working environment) healthcare settings

8. Risk Management:

• Understanding how identified risks can be managed through preventive and protective measures healthcare settings
• Importance of a balanced approach to risk management healthcare settings

9. Safe Working Practices:

• Application and promotion of safe working practices specific to the job role healthcare settings
• Importance of following protocols and procedures to ensure safety healthcare settings

10. Patient Safety:

• Actions to ensure patient safety healthcare settings
• Importance of following protocols and reporting concerns healthcare settings

11. Reporting Health and Safety Concerns:

• Importance of reporting health and safety concerns healthcare settings
• Reporting processes used by the organization healthcare settings

12. Incident Reporting:

• Individual responsibilities in reporting incidents, ill health, and near misses healthcare settings
• Understanding the importance of reporting for risk management healthcare settings

13. Raising Health and Safety Concerns:

• Knowing how to raise health and safety concerns within the organization healthcare settings
• Understanding the channels and procedures for reporting concerns healthcare settings

14. Information Management:

• How the organization uses the information gathered to help manage risks healthcare settings
• Importance of accurate and timely reporting healthcare settings

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the organization's commitment to delivering services safely.
2. Understand the importance of acting in ways that are consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures for maintaining own and others' health and safety.
3. Know the organization's arrangements for consulting with employees on health and safety matters.
4. Be able to locate the organization's health and safety policy and the arrangements for implementing it.
5. Understand the meaning of hazard, risk, and risk assessment.
6. Be able to recognize common workplace hazards including electricity, slips, trips and falls, chemicals and substances, stress, physical and verbal abuse, traffic routes, display screen equipment (DSE), workstations, and the working environment.
7. Understand how any identified risks might be managed through balanced and appropriate preventive and protective measures.
8. Understand how to apply and promote safe working practices specific to their job role.
9. Know the actions they should take to ensure patient safety.
10. Understand the importance of reporting health and safety concerns.
11. Know the reporting processes used and how the organization uses the information gathered to help manage risks.
12. Know how to raise health and safety concerns.
13. Understand individual responsibilities in reporting incidents, ill health, and near misses.

All certificates are included.
Course Duration 1 Hour.