Health and safety training for staff

Health and safety training is a vital part of your health and safety strategy (together with proper, practical risk control). This section will help you to understand how to appoint appropriate people to be in charge of health and safety duties in your business (such as first aid and fire safety) and how to provide training on fire safety, emergency evacuation, and other health and safety matters. It also explains how external training providers can help you and when you might need them.

Responsibility for health and safety

  1. 1.Do I have to put someone in charge of health and safety?
  2. 2.Can I appoint one person to deal with all health and safety matters in my business?
  3. 3.Who should I put in charge of health and safety?
  4. 4.Do I need to hire external health and safety experts?
  5. 5.How do I choose a health and safety expert to help me?
  6. 6.Can anyone give health and safety training?
  7. 7.How do I choose a specialist health and safety trainer?

Employee health and safety representatives

  1. 8.Can my employees appoint a health and safety representative?
  2. 9.Do I have to arrange training for elected employee health and safety representatives?
  3. 10.What should training for health and safety representatives cover?
  4. 11.Do I have to consult any staff health and safety representative or my employees about health and safety?

Time off and paying for health and safety training

  1. 12.Do I have to give a health and safety representative paid time off for training?
  2. 13.Do I have to give employees paid time off for health and safety training?
  3. 14.Do I have to spend money on expensive health and safety training courses?
  4. 15.Can I make my employees pay for their own health and safety training?

Fire safety and emergency evacuations: responsibility and training

  1. 16.Do I have to put someone in charge of fire safety and emergency evacuations?
  2. 17.Do I have to give fire safety training to all my staff?
  3. 18.What fire safety training should I give my staff?
  4. 19.What should my fire safety training say about evacuation?
  5. 20.Do I have to train all my staff to use firefighting equipment?
  6. 21.What should my fire safety training say about fire risks and fire prevention?
  7. 22.Do I have to give fire safety training on a new employee's first day?
  8. 23.Can I make employees attend fire safety training out of hours?
  9. 24.Who should give fire safety training?

First-aiders

  1. 25.My business is small and office-based. Do I need to do anything about first aid?
  2. 26.Do I have to appoint a first-aider?
  3. 27.What if I do not need a first-aider?
  4. 28.What happens when my first-aider is not in?
  5. 29.Does my first-aider need any qualifications?
  6. 30.What qualifications does my first-aider need?
  7. 31.How do I choose a training provider for my first-aider?
  8. 32.Do I have to give first-aid training to all my staff?
  9. 33.Should I keep medicines or painkillers in my first-aid kit?
  10. 34.Can first-aiders give medication to staff or other people?

When to give health and safety training

  1. 35.Do I need to provide health and safety training to my staff?
  2. 36.When should I give health and safety training?
  3. 37.Should I give regular health and safety refresher training?
  4. 38.Can I make employees attend health and safety training out of hours?

Who needs health and safety training

  1. 39.Who do I need to give health and safety training to?
  2. 40.Should I give extra health and safety training to young people (under 18)?
  3. 41.Should I give health and safety training to homeworkers?

What to cover in health and safety training

  1. 42.What should staff health and safety training cover?
  2. 43.What should my staff training say about workstations and work equipment?
  3. 44.What should my staff training say about housekeeping and accident prevention?
  4. 45.How should my staff deal with trip and slip hazards in a shop?
  5. 46.What should my staff training say about accidents and accident reporting?
  6. 47.What should my staff training say about electrical equipment?
  7. 48.What should my staff training say about manual handling?
  8. 49.Can my health and safety training be given on the job?
  9. 50.Do I have to test staff on their health and safety training?

General risk assessment for remote workers

This risk assessment for remote workers is designed to make it easy for you to comply with health and safety law when it comes to employees who work offsite. If you have staff who work away from your business premises, for example if they are homeworkers, go out on deliveries or spend time at clients’ premises, it is important to take their health and safety seriously and carry out (or get them to carry out) regular risk assessments. This remote worker risk assessment covers the most common hazards that your staff might come across away from your business premises. Because every job is different, the risk assessment template has space for you to add any hazards that are specific to your business circumstances. You can also purchase this risk assessment as part of the Remote working and cybersecurity toolkit .
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Fire safety risk assessment

This fire safety risk assessment forms a vital part of your health and safety compliance if you have any kind of business premises. It is important to take fire safety seriously and carry out regular risk assessments at your business premises focusing on it. This fire safety risk assessment template makes compliance easy. It covers the most common fire safety hazards that you might find in your business premises. It includes suggested actions that you can take to help reduce the risks that those hazards pose or even remove them altogether. Every workplace is different, so this fire safety risk assessment also contains space for you to fill in any fire hazards specific to your type of business premises or systems of work.
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