Overview

Where home working is deemed acceptable by both employer and employee, both parties have a responsibility to work together to ensure there is a healthy and safe work environment. This course is designed to help the home worker fulfil their health and safety responsibilities by providing key information and training.

The course covers:

• the health and safety responsibilities associated with the equipment used in a home working environment,
• home worker health and safety practice and procedure, and
• the principles of risk assessment and hazard spotting.

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Course outline

PART 1: EQUIPMENT - THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES ASSOCIATED TO WORK EQUIPMENT AT HOME

• Electrical Equipment
• Visually Checking Electrical Equipment
• Home Wiring and Sockets
• Laptop Use
• Posture

PART 2: PRACTICE - HOME WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

• Health and Safety practice
• RIDDOR
• Manual Handling
• Work Related Stress
• Fire Safety
• Smoke Alarm Maintenance
• Fire Extinguishers
• Personal Security

PART 3: RISK ASSESSMENT - THE PRINCIPLES OF RISK ASSESSMENT AND HAZARD SPOTTING

• Risk Assessment – the five stage process
• Risk Assessment examples
• Hazard Spotting

The course concludes with a short assessment to confirm understanding, the results of which are automatically saved to a database when used with the Audit+ Management System for further analysis.

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Key benefits

• Roll-out home worker health and safety training to all personnel in a single installation
• Ensure all personnel connected via internet or intranet who work from home receive health and safety training in line with company policy
• Conduct home worker health and safety training efficiently by allowing employees to complete the training at a convenient time, at their own workstation
• Employees may complete the training over a period of time using automated browser-independent bookmarking
• Set global passmark specific to your organisation
• Customise aspects of the program to reflect your organisation's brand and policies on general health & safety issues
• Provide one-click access to useful organisation-specific contact information and references from within the training
• Automatically save test results to a database for analysis and to establish an audit trail of your organisation's compliance with the law when used with the Audit+ Management System
• Print-out training certificates that are automatically generated at the end of each training session

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Regulatory requirements

According to the Management of Health and Safety At Work Regulations 1999, Section 13:

1. Every employer shall, in entrusting tasks to his employees, take into account their capabilities as regards health and safety.
2. Every employer shall ensure that his employees are provided with adequate health and safety training -
   1. on their being recruited into the employer's undertaking; and
   2. on their being exposed to new or increased risks because of -
      1. their being transferred or given a change of responsibilities within the employer's undertaking,
      2. the introduction of new work equipment into or a change respecting work equipment already in use within the employer's undertaking,
      3. the introduction of new technology into the employer's undertaking, or
      4. the introduction of a new system of work into or a change respecting a system of work already in use within the employer's undertaking.
3. The training referred to in paragraph (2) shall -
   1. be repeated periodically where appropriate;
   2. be adapted to take account of any new or changed risks to the health and safety of the employees concerned; and
   3. take place during working hours.

This training program helps your organisation fulfil this legal obligation. Training records may be maintained for years and are available for interrogation at anytime from any PC on your network when the program is used with the Audit+ Records Management System.

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Server and browser requirements

This training program runs over a typical company Intranet or hosted website with minimum specification and do not require plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave or Java.

Server:

• Microsoft IIS 5 or later
• Active Server Pages 3.0
• Microsoft® SQL Server 7/2000/2003 or Microsoft® Access (if training records will be saved to a database)

Browser:

• Microsoft® Windows - Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+
• Mac OSX - Safari 2+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+

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