Advanced Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety

Learn how workplace health and safety legislation works, setting obligations on employers and employees to protect everyone's health and safety, with focus on UK laws and collective agreements.

Implement health and safety legislation to protect employees' safety and health by regulating work conditions, hours. Reduce risk, injuries, and workplace stress by applying health and safety legislation.

Explore how employers uphold health, welfare, and safety by evaluating risks, identifying hazards, reducing or eliminating dangers, and educating and consulting workers under UK health and safety laws.

Explore UK health and safety law, including the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the 1999 management regulations, with focus on risk assessment and incident reporting.

Learn the legal duties of employers to provide a safe, healthy workplace and personal protective equipment, and employees' rights and responsibilities, including informing your employer of concerns.

Discover how to predict and prevent workplace risks through a practical risk assessment, including identifying hazards, safeguards, and the steps to record, implement, and update findings.

Explore the forms of risk assessment, including quantitative, qualitative, generic, specialized, and dynamic approaches, and learn how each method addresses uncertainty and evolving hazards in workplace safety.

Utilize risk assessments to reduce injuries and illnesses, comply with health and safety legislation, and guide monitoring, review, and resource allocation.

Identify hazards, assess and analyze risks, record significant findings, and revise the assessment to reduce residual risk using the five-step process and a hierarchy of controls.

Identify environmental risks in the workplace, including biological, chemical, physical, natural, and ergonomic hazards. Learn to dispose of hazardous waste, use PPE, and prevent slips, falls, fire, and electrical hazards.

Identify and label hazardous waste on site per EPA rules and reference MSDS for safe storage. Train staff on handling, enforce chain of custody, and document pickups by waste managers.

Learn to operate escalators and moving walkways safely by following safety equipment and emergency stop controls, entering properly, gripping the handrail, standing in the middle, and facing forward.

Improve fire safety with regular smoke alarms, evacuation plans, and staff training to ensure swift, safe exits. Reduce electrical risks by following OSHA standards and identifying hazards.

Learn to select, install, and operate suitable and safe work equipment—from hand tools to lifting gear and work-at-height equipment—under the 1998 regulations to reduce risks.

prevent slipping, tripping, and falling by addressing slick flooring, cables, walkways, and missing railings. implement spill clearance, non-slip mats, drainage, signage, handrails, lighting, secure carpets, proper equipment, and worker training.

Explore how PPE protects workers from hazards, including gloves, goggles, helmets, and respirators, boosts safety and productivity, signals safety expectations on site, and supports risk assessments and emergency planning.

Improve comfort and safety at your workstation with an ergonomic sitting posture, proper monitor height, and back support. Learn keyboard and mouse positioning, eye health tips, and hourly breaks.

Discover ergonomic chair adjustments and monitor positioning to reduce contact stress, eye strain, and neck and back pain, including proper height, back support, armrest adjustments, footrest use, and glare reduction.

Place the keyboard and mouse directly in front of you at the same level, five centimetres from the front edge, to create an ergonomic workspace and prevent RSI.

Enhance eye health by optimizing vision and lighting, taking breaks every 20 minutes to look 20 ft away for 20 seconds, stay hydrated, and use larger fonts.

Take regular breaks and micro-stretches every 20–30 minutes, switch tasks hourly, and position your monitor ergonomically to support posture and reduce eye strain.

Define working alone and identify associated risks, while outlining employer duties and lone workers' responsibilities to stay safe. Explore types of lone duties and precautionary measures to safeguard lone workers.

Recognize the risks of lone workers in UK organisations and implement best practices to protect 8 million workers from hazards such as falls, electrocution, confined spaces, and violence.

Learn the employer’s primary duty for lone worker safety and how employees must assist, follow precautions, report hazards, protect health, comply with policies, and keep phone contact.

Employers protect employees from hazards by examining dangers, talking to workers for feedback, investigating incidents, and implementing check-in procedures, training, and visibility measures to prevent lone-work risks.

Explore precautions for various lone-duty scenarios, from cash handling to home visits and field travel, and apply safe work procedures, robbery awareness, security measures, and travel plans to reduce risk.

Discover workplace first aid requirements, including the assessment process, essential first aid kits, and how to appoint a professional first aider. Learn what information employers should provide to employees.

Evaluate first aid requirements by assessing workplace hazards, staff, and risks in line with hsc guidelines to determine appropriate provisions.

Select a willing, capable, available first aider on site, with access to additional trained responders, to save lives and ensure emergency cover regardless of leave or shift patterns.

Identify essential first aid kit contents, including latex gloves, plasters, bandages, tweezers, and ice packs, for low and high-risk workplaces, and learn storage, maintenance, and routine checks by the contact.

Learn how workplaces inform employees about first aid arrangements, including first aid protocol, first aiders, kit locations, and AED availability, guided by HSE advice and needs assessments.

Create a healthy, safe, smoke- and alcohol-free workplace with clean, comfortable conditions, and facilities for special needs, while supporting manual handling and meal break spaces.

Maintain clean working conditions to boost productivity, morale, and well-being and accountability, by eliminating clutter, disposing of waste, designating cleaning time, and implementing a thorough cleaning plan with checklists.

Establish a smoke and alcohol-free workplace by banning smoking in most areas, establishing clearly labeled designated smoking zones with ventilation, and enforcing alcohol and drug policies, testing, and awareness programs.

Master manual handling tasks such as lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying, and repetitive duties, and apply risk controls, mechanical assistance, workload adjustments, and training to prevent musculoskeletal disorders.

Employers must evaluate dangers for fertile workers and conduct individual risk assessments for pregnant or new mothers, consulting unions or safety reps, and adjust hours or offer paid leave.

Employers modify physical features and provide reasonable adjustments, such as ramps and accessible doors, for employees with disabilities, under the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995.

Employers must provide sufficient clean toilets and washing facilities with hot and cold water, soap, and sanitary product disposal. Ensure ventilation, lighting, and regular maintenance, with showers when needed.

Identify workplace infectious disease hazards and implement infection control measures; promote seasonal influenza vaccine, hand hygiene, stay-at-home when ill, cough etiquette, surface cleaning, and ventilation to prevent transmission.

Develop and implement a comprehensive workplace covid-19 protection plan, including clean facilities, risk assessment, physical distancing, regular testing, and training in personal protective equipment for returning staff.

Provide clean, safe drinking water as part of suitable facilities, ensuring free water is accessible to staff and kept isolated from toilets to the extent reasonably practicable.

Provide a 30-minute unpaid meal break for employees working eight or more hours and ensure rest facilities and restrooms to support mental and physical health, safety, welfare, and productivity.

Identify common causes of workplace stress such as heavy workloads, lack of control, and bullying, and learn symptoms and practical stress reduction tips to improve engagement.

Explains how excessive stress harms body and mind, reducing performance, productivity at work, and morale. Highlights the effects on mental health and physical health, relationships, and work-life balance.

Manage stress at work to protect mental and physical health, create a pleasant, content workforce, and boost retention and productivity.

Identify workplace stress triggers and manage them through coping strategies, while maintaining work-life balance, mindfulness, gratitude, organization, adequate sleep, and supportive coworker relationships.

Explore typical workplace stress symptoms and how unmanaged stress affects health, mood, sleep, and concentration, highlighting the benefits of managing stress at work.

Explore the components of a workplace health and safety management system, including leadership, policy, risk identification, training and supervision, safety committees, incident investigation, and program management.

Health and safety committees drive the internal responsibility system through employer and employee collaboration, with a written constitution and defined membership, ensuring consultation, information sharing, and monthly inspections.

Appoint health and safety representatives to operate independently, represent coworkers' interests, and consult on welfare issues. Inspect workplaces and investigate mishaps, and participate in safety committees.

Develop a health and safety budget plan, allocate gear, training, and management systems, and review policies to protect workers, improve productivity, and ensure employer accountability.

Organizations establish a health and safety policy outlining intent, responsibilities, and practical arrangements, including risk assessment, training, safety signs, and equipment to comply with the health and safety act.

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