How often do you have to renew health, safety and welfare training?

As a general guideline, many health and safety courses require or recommend a refresher every few years. This timescale ensures that your knowledge remains current and you're aware of any safety standards and legislation changes. For example, a first aid certificate lasts for 3 years, but you are recommended to take a refresher course every year to stay up to date. See all of our health and safety courses here, as well as our packages. You can also see helpful blog articles and other resources here.

What health and safety training is mandatory?

Mandatory Health and Safety training is any Health and Safety training that is a legal requirement in your workplace. For example, all workers are legally required to undertake Fire Safety Training. Mandatory Health and Safety training courses are essential for remaining legally compliant in any workplace. See all of our health and safety courses here, as well as our packages.

What legislation covers health and safety in the United Kingdom?

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. It's sometimes referred to as HSWA, the HSW Act, the 1974 Act or HASAWA. It is fully explained in this article, or you can read more about what employers and employees need to know about it in our helpful blog article here.

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Statutory & Mandatory Training: Health, Safety & Welfare Training

Our health, safety and welfare training course outlines common health and safety hazards in the healthcare sector, how to perform a risk assessment and what to do in the event of an incident and more. By completing this health and safety mandatory training course you will receive a CPD approved health, safety and welfare certificate.

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Course Overview

Format

Introductory Course
Up to 45 Minutes
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

1 CPD Hour
CPD Certified

Course description

In any workplace, there are health and safety hazards that need to be controlled to reduce the risk of accidents and injuries. It’s down to you and your organisation to make this happen.

This module outlines common health and safety hazards in the healthcare sector, how to perform a risk assessment and what to do in the event of an incident. It also explores what a ‘culture of health and safety’ means, and what is expected of you and your organisation in order to achieve this.

Statutory & Mandatory Training: Health, Safety and Welfare Features

Our Statutory & Mandatory Training: Health, Safety and Welfare course has been designed to work on all devices including mobiles, laptops, tablets and desktops giving you the flexibility to complete the training at a time and in a location suitable for you.

With healthcare staff often expected to complete training on an annual basis there will be topics you will be more familiar with than others. Our self assessment tool, which is at the start of each course, will allow you to test your knowledge to see if you would like to complete the training or progress straight to the end of course test.

At the end of this health, safety and welfare course, you will need to complete a test that consists of multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve an 80% pass mark, and - if necessary - may attempt the test six times at no extra cost. If learners do not achieve the pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

The online health, safety and welfare training is fully interactive and is packed with various multimedia forms including video, animation and custom graphics to give you the best learning experience.

Each element of the training is WCAG 2.2 accessible and includes scenarios, contextualised activities, reflective activities, knowledge checks, bite sized lessons and so much more.

Accreditation

The content of this training course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Duration

This course will take up to 45 minutes to complete, depending on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material. Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout.

Entry requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Further Training

After completing our Health, Safety and Welfare training course why not take a look at some of our other accredited courses including Complete Health and Safety Package, Awareness of Health and Safety at Work and IOSH Working Safely.

Framework

Our Statutory & Mandatory Training: Health, Safety & Welfare Training online training course is mapped to the Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework.

Here we explain the framework and their importance.

Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework:

The Core Skills Training Framework sets out minimum learning outcomes, frequency of refresher training and is linked to relevant legislation or expert guidance.

It can be used by any healthcare employer in the UK including NHS, independent and voluntary providers.

We have mapped our eLearning courses to the learning objectives within the Core Skills Training Framework, to give organisations the confidence that they can use the eLearning as a foundation for their wider training programmes.

You will learn

Describe what you can expect from your organisation in terms of processes, policies and engagement around health and safety

List the main legal requirements that you and your organisation must comply with

Provide examples of hazards you might come across at work, and describe how to report them

List the five stages of risk assessment

Describe how to report incidents, and explain why this is important

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Frontline NHS staff and professionals whose work brings them into direct contact with members of the public

Anybody who wants to better understand health, safety and welfare and adhere to relevant legislation

Health, Safety & Welfare FAQs

How often do you have to renew health, safety and welfare training?

As a general guideline, many health and safety courses require or recommend a refresher every few years. This timescale ensures that your knowledge remains current and you're aware of any safety standards and legislation changes. For example, a first aid certificate lasts for 3 years, but you are recommended to take a refresher course every year to stay up to date.
See all of our health and safety courses here, as well as our packages. You can also see helpful blog articles and other resources here.
What health and safety training is mandatory?

Mandatory Health and Safety training is any Health and Safety training that is a legal requirement in your workplace. For example, all workers are legally required to undertake Fire Safety Training. Mandatory Health and Safety training courses are essential for remaining legally compliant in any workplace.
See all of our health and safety courses here, as well as our packages.
What legislation covers health and safety in the United Kingdom?

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. It's sometimes referred to as HSWA, the HSW Act, the 1974 Act or HASAWA.
It is fully explained in this article, or you can read more about what employers and employees need to know about it in our helpful blog article here.

How the online courses work

Find a course

To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.
Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.
Buy the course

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.