The Foundation Certificate in Health and Safety in the Workplace represents a foundation of knowledge required by everyone. A further range of certificated Health and Safety courses covering Manual Handling, COSHH and First Aid are also available.

Aims

The Foundation Certificate in Health and Safety aims to provide employees with health and safety understanding which will enable them to contribute to any health and safety management system.

In particular the programme will enable the student to:

• Work in a safe and healthy manner and contribute to improving health and safety within an organisation’s policy.
• Identify key hazards in their own workplace.
• Understand the importance of health and safety rules and working procedures.
• Report potential health and safety problems.
• Be responsible for their own actions.

The syllabus is generic in nature – it sets out the principles of health and safety, but trainers should tailor the syllabus to the background of the students.