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Health and Safety

Trustworthy Services' Paul Lailey has over 20 years experience in education and his time as a headteacher gave him responsibility for health and safety across the whole school community, ensuring the necessary maintenance of buildings across multiple sites. He says "this gave me a great understanding of health and safety requirements and necessary risk assessments and precautions that need to be in place. I also have a wide understanding of the complexities of maintaining buildings and ensuring compliance with regulations."

Trustworthy Services can deliver Health and Safety and Fire Safety training to your organisation at a range of levels:

FAA Level 1 Award in Fire Safety Awareness (RQF) half day course

Fire in the workplace can be devastating but most are preventable. This half day course will give you a good understanding of the common causes of fire and how it behaves, together with an overview of legislation and your responsibilities in the workplace.

The course will also cover:

Fire prevention
What to do if a fire breaks out
How to use fire extinguishers
Emergency evacuation procedures

FAA Level 2 Award in Fire Safety (RQF) one day course

This one day course will help you if you would like to develop your basic fire safety awareness and intend to undertake a Fire Warden, Marshall or Steward role in your workplace, with a greater responsibility for managing fire risk.

This course explores the hazards and risks posed by fire in the workplace and how fire risk can be controlled in the workplace. It will explain the role of the nominated fire warden and the principles and practice of fire safety management at work.

FAA Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) one day course

This one day course provides an excellent introduction health and safety in the workplace, which will help you understand the roles and responsibilities of health, safety and welfare in the workplace and the value of risk assessments and how these should be undertaken.

The course will also help you to identify and control of workplace hazards and know how to respond to workplace incidents and accidents.

FAA Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) half day course

This one day course provides an excellent introduction health and safety in the workplace, All aspects of Health and Safety are important to a business whether you are an employee, contractor or supplier and this half-day course will help you to understand the importance of health and safety and welfare standards in the workplace and know how risks and hazards are controlled. It will also give you an awareness of the main causes and effects of poor health and safety at work and understand how the necessary information can be shared and communicated in the workplace.

FAA Level 2 Award in Manual Handling – Principles and Practice (RQF)

We are all exposed to some form of manual handling at times, such as lifting, carrying, pulling and pushing actions. This course will help you understand the reasons behind safe manual handling and will give you the skills to be able to protect yourself in the workplace.

You will also:

Understand how manual handling risk assessments contribute to improving health and safety
Understand the principles, types of equipment and testing requirements associated with manual handling safety
Be able to apply safe manual handling principles