Health & Safety for Homeworkers

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the basics of staying safe as a homeworker
• Recognise and deal with potential hazards in the home
• Understand your responsibilities for your own personal safety

ABOUT THIS COURSE
This Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers programme has been designed to provide a good grounding in general health and safety. It's for anyone who works at home, whether it's all of the time or some of the time. It looks at important areas of safety, INCLUDING (and MUCH MORE):

• Avoiding slips, trips and falls
• Understanding Your Responsibilities
• Avoiding slips, trips and falls
• Fire safety awareness
• Promoting good manual handling the home
• Improving posture when using DSE Equipment
• Using electrical equipment safely
• Setting up a workstation with comfort and good posture in mind to avoid injuries
• Risk assessments (Homeworking Assessment Tool also included)

Other areas covered are home security, mental health, reporting accidents, personal safety, and the importance of maintaining a good work/life balance.
"Between 3 and 14 November 2021, around two-thirds (67%) of working adults in Great Britain reported travelling to work at some point in the past seven days. 3 in 10 working adults (30%) reported working from home at some point in the past seven days" (ONS). Our Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers makes sure that both employees and employers understand their responsibilities.
People at risk of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome may also be interested in our Personal Protective Equipment Training and/or our General Workshop Safety Training.

COURSE CONTENTS
This training course is broken down into 6 sections:

• Slips, Trips, and Falls
• Your Workspace
• DSE & Manual Handling
• Fire & Electrical Safety
• Safety Responsibilities & Procedures
• Mental Health

CERTIFICATE
DOWNLOAD AND PRINT
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

What does my certificate include?
Your Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Why is this training important?
COMPLIANCE
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.