This module will introduce you to the content of the course and online training. This Health and Safety Level 2 course will give you the tools to stop you getting hurt or ill through work. Employers are responsible for health and safety, but employees must co-operate.

This module will detail the contents of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and why it's so important to workplace safety. You'll understand why workers have a right to work in places where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled.

Workplace health and safety goes far beyond just keeping employees from harm. This module outlines how there are clear costs to poor health and safety, with many hidden. You will learn the different causes and consequences of an accident - especially those that are not obvious at first. It is also important to know the correct procedures when reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences (RIDDOR).

Slips and trips are the most common type of work injury. This module discusses how slips and trips cause over a third of all major injuries and can lead to other types of accidents. Depending on the workplace and the environment, these kinds of small-scale accidents can lead to more serious consequences.

This module dives into the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations guide. The content teaches employers on how to safely control the use of hazardous substances and reduce the risk that may potentially cause harm.

Wherever you work, you are likely to be surrounded by various warnings or health and safety signs as you go about your job. These signs can easily fade into the background but they form an essential part of any workplace. This module outlines all of the essential signs that will ensure safety precautions are adhered to at every stage.

Your workplace will need to have fire risk assessments detailing the potential hazards from fire. Every year, fires cause loss of life and loss of business. This module will go through the various causes of fire - as well as their effects.

The module is essential to reacting to any sort of accident or safety failure in the workplace. First aid is the action taken to prevent an injured person’s condition deteriorating whilst waiting for professional assistance. You will learn to deal with any immediate dangers, assess the situation and gather the appropriate help required to manage the situation.

In the construction industry an average of 2,020 workers per 100,000 suffer from Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMSD). In this module, you will understand what needs to be considered in a Manual Handling Risk Assessment and how the working environment, the load, the individual, the task and equipment are all factors.

The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 apply to workers who use DSE daily, for continuous periods of an hour or more. This module will teach you the regulations that apply to these workers and how they can undertake best practice to look after their wellbeing.

Electricity is used in every workplace. Each year about 1,000 accidents at work are reported involving burns and shock and about 30 of these are fatal. This module will help you understand the many injuries that can occur when working around high voltage and how to best avoid them.

High levels of noise in a workplace, especially for prolonged amounts of time, can have damaging affects on workers within close proximity. This module goes through the regulations of working around high levels of noise and what precautions to take to avoid any hearing loss.

Work equipment is any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether exclusively or not). This includes equipment which employees provide for their own use at work. You'll learn what equipment is covered by regulations and what type of equipment causes what injury. 

Falls from height are a common cause of fatal injury. When people use equipment while working at height, this can fall onto persons below causing death and injury. In this module you'll understand the many risks of working at height can encompass. This can range from using a footstool to stack shelves in a supermarket, to window cleaning multiple storeys high or constructing a building.

Vibration is the transmission of force from the work process into the operator. Measured by how strong the force and how frequently it occurs. In this module, you'll learn how whole body and hand-arm vibrations can cause serous harm and how there are regulations to avoiding any injury.

The final section of the course is a mandatory assessment to test everything you've learned across the modules and ensure you have the knowledge to receive your certificate.