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    Manual Handling and First Aid Training Package

    Original price was: £45.00.Current price is: £36.00.
    Employers have a legal requirement to take reasonable steps to safeguard the health and safety of all employees, including increasing awareness about potential hazards, and outlining what can be done to minimise risk. The Manual Handling course will help learners understand the correct manual handling procedures to apply to be able to reduce their chance of incurring an injury while handling loads. The First Aid Primary Survey course will help learners to react appropriately when they are first on the scene of an incident involving a casualty and know what necessary steps to take.
  • This engaging online Manual Handling training gives you practical knowledge to prevent workplace injuries when handling loads. As one of our essential health and safety courses, it delivers critical skills in just 30-45 minutes. Manual handling injuries affect half a million UK workers annually, with back injuries being the leading cause of workplace absences. By law, employers must protect their workforce—and this training helps you meet those legal obligations while reducing costly downtime.
  • This counter terrorism training course helps introduce everyone to staying alert and being vigilant when it comes to potential terrorist attacks, as well as introducing responsible persons to the requirements they need to fulfil in order to comply with Martyn’s Law. Businesses and organisations are now responsible for preparing staff for potential terrorist threats.
  • Working in a health and social care setting often involves administering and monitoring medication to those under your care. With this short course understand the legislation policies and procedures to be able to safely administer medication whilst also gaining knowledge surrounding the most common types of medication and its use.
  • Working in a health and social care setting means looking after or supporting individuals who sometimes need extra help. When in this setting it is important to understand the mental capacity of the individuals in your care, often carried out through assessment, as this will help tailor their support. There are various reasons to why someone may lack mental capacity, and in the cases where this is lacking, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) looks to protect the person to ensure their liberty is not being deprived in their care arrangements.
  • This course contains several sections and covers a huge amount of material concerning Mental Capacity Assessment and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
  • These courses help to define mental health, look at the symptoms of some mental health issues and the impact they can have, as well as legislation and how to devise an action plan to promote mental well-being in the workplace for you and your employees. Both of these courses aim to improve your understanding of your own and your employees’ mental health and well-being, and how you can better promote workplace well-being through slight changes in day-to-day behaviour.
  • Just as it is important to keep our bodies healthy, ensuring we keep our minds healthy is just as vital throughout all stages of life. By not taking time to understand our own mental health, our behaviours and emotions can be negatively affected. Mental Health and Wellbeing Resource Pack improves your awareness of mental health, how to support others with their mental health and gain general information surrounding mental health.
  • This course covers the different aspects of your life and how you can improve your mental health and wellbeing in those areas. Aimed at anyone who wishes to improve their mental health and wellbeing the course takes around one hour to complete. Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK could suffer from mental health at least once a year with 1 in 6 people in England reporting common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. Whilst there has not been a significant rise in mental health problems in recent years people are finding it harder to cope with the illness with self-harm and suicidal thoughts increasing. Having positive mental health in the workplace can lead to an increase in productivity and morale which can also have a good effect on your colleagues.
  • Misogynistic behaviour is sadly on the rise with research saying 64% of teachers in mixed-sex secondary schools hear sexist language in school on at least a weekly basis. A quarter (27%) of secondary school teachers say they would not feel confident tackling a sexist incident if they experienced or witnessed it in school.
  • This online Misogyny Awareness course provides you with the knowledge you need to identify and tackle misogynistic behaviour that might be experienced in the workplace.  Sexism and misogyny have damaging effects on women. It’s not just the mental burden of experiencing derogatory comments in-the-moment, but also the long-term impact it can have on their wellbeing, behaviours and life choices.
  • Modern slavery and trafficking are two of the most important safeguarding topics for anyone working with vulnerable children or adults. It is crucial that they have an in-depth knowledge of these areas and can spot the signs and symptoms of abuse. Human trafficking, human exploitation and modern slavery are alarmingly widespread issues in today's society. Statistics from Unseen show that there was a 35 per cent increase in the number of people identified as trafficking victims in the UK from 2016 to 2017, while 4,586 victims of modern slavery were reported to the Home Office in 2016 alone.
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