Building a safer workplace – health and safety training

According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), more than 200 people die every year as a result of workplace accidents, while over a million suffer injuries. Double that number become ill, or have an illness worsened, due to their work. So, clearly, preventing work-based accidents, fatalities and ill health must be top priority for everyone.

But with good training in health and safety, and by providing the right information, you show you take your responsibilities to employee safety seriously. At the same time, you:

• Help ensure your staff do not experience injury or illness through their work.
• Create a positive culture of health and safety, in which working in the right ways to keep people safe and healthy becomes second nature to all concerned
• Learn how health and safety can be better managed.
• Comply with your legal duties for looking after employees in these areas.

• Make a significant contribution to increasing staff competency across a wide range of health and safety matters.
• Help avoid the distress of ill health and accidents for all concerned with a healthier, safer workforce, and prevent disasters from happening in the first place, plus their hidden costs, including having demotivated workers.
• Ethical considerations aside, occupational health and accidents can be very expensive for employers in terms of potentially hefty fines and other penalties such as legal fees, medical bills and lost productivity, not to mention the additional costs of having staff off sick.
• The law requires employers to provide the right training to ensure, as far as is reasonably possible, the health and safety of your staff.
• This training fills any gaps in knowledge, and contributes to continuing professional development while allowing the individual to learn about new developments or techniques for dealing with problems, threats and opportunities so that their knowledge is as up to date as possible.
• Health and safety failings, apart from anything else, are seriously damaging to an organisation’s public reputation.
• Boost employee morale and contribute to your staff feeling safe, happy and productive at work, which helps attract and retain the talent you need.

Health and safety training from Pragmatic Consulting

Pragmatic Consulting specialises in training for the energy and utilities sectors and has extensive experience of delivering courses for these industries.

We offer Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) Health and Safety Awareness (HAS) training as a one-day online course, with dates available through the year, for those working in construction or civil engineering. Assessment is via an exam of 25 questions, with successful completion leading in CITB certification which stays valid for five years. 

By the end of the course, you will have gained an appreciation of:

• The importance of preventing accidents
• Health and safety legislation
• Risk assessments and method statements
• Reporting unsafe acts to avoid accidents
• How your role fits in with the rest of the site more widely

And the course covers a wide range of topics, from working at height to manual handling, noise and vibration, PPE, hazardous substances, site transport safety and more.

For directors and senior managers active in a strategic health and safety role, who are looking to understand their health and safety responsibilities and the consequences of not meeting, them we offer a one-day CITB Directors’ Role in Health & Safety course, online or in a classroom. Delegates learn how to implement the right health and safety culture across their organisations. Assessment is via a 35-minute exam.

Working on utilities or construction sites, read our blog: The Importance of Safety in Utilities & Construction

Got a question about this or any of our other courses?

Call us on 01926 674340 or just email support@pragmatic-consulting.co.uk and we’ll be glad to help

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