Health and Safety Level 2

Introduction
The Health and Safety course is designed to assist employers, employees and self-employed persons understand their responsibilities in relation to occupational health and safety. Understanding good health and safety principles and applying those principles in the workplace is a responsibility shared by managers and workers alike. It's in everyone's interests to ensure that work tasks are undertaken in a manner that protects the health, safety and welfare or anyone who might be affected by the operation of a business or other organisation.

• Terms and systems relating to health and safety
• Employers' and employees' responsibilities for health and safety
• The role of risk assessment
• Hazards and risks
• Work equipment risks
• Electricity and fire risks
• Substances that are hazardous to health and appropriate controls
• Hazards and risks caused by manual handling, noise, stress and appropriate controls
• Noise and stress