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    Level 3 Food Hygiene, Food Allergy and First Aid Training Course Package

    Original price was: £115.00.Current price is: £110.00.
    This training course pack is designed to help learners become aware of the responsibilities required when working in the food industry, as well as the relevant guidelines and legislation. This training pack teaches learners to take responsibility for food monitoring procedures, identify food safety hazards and contribute to improvements in food safety practices. Learners will be shown how to identify and understand the main food allergens, and the importance of handling food containing allergens carefully in order to keep customers safe; they will also learn to follow the Resuscitation Council (UK) Guidelines for basic to advanced life support training.
  • The Level 3 Food Hygiene online course is suitable for anyone who is involved in the management or supervision of food handlers within a food environment. If you need someone to oversee food safety in your business, note that every food business should have at least one person with Level 3 Supervising Food Safety in Catering, particularly if they're managing and training your team. We offer Level 3 Food Hygiene for Supervisors in: Manufacturing | Catering | Retail. Those in a role where they supervise or manage others working with or handling food are recommended to complete a Level 3 Food Safety and Hygiene course. As a business owner or supervisor, you have a duty to comply with the provisions of Regulation (EC) 852/2004 of the European Parliament on the Hygiene of Foodstuffs, the Food Safety Act 1990, and the Food Hygiene Regulations 2005.
  • Anyone who oversees food production in specifically within a catering setting needs to be aware of all food safety and hygiene standards, including how to effectively manage staff to minimise risk. It is recommended that catering premises should have at least one person trained to Level 3 in food hygiene and safety - particularly if they are in charge of other staff and are responsible for their training. We also offer Level 3 Food Hygiene for Supervisors in: Manufacturing | Retail. Those in a role where they supervise or manage others working with or handling food are recommended to complete a Level 3 Food Safety and Hygiene course. It is recommended everyone working with or handling food has a Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene certificate, we offer Level 2 Food Hygiene for: Catering | Manufacturing | Retail | Drinks Manufacturers.
  • Anyone who oversees food production for a food manufacturing business needs to be aware of all food safety and hygiene standards, including how to effectively manage staff to minimise risk. It is recommended that manufacturing premises should have at least one person trained to Level 3 in food hygiene and safety - particularly if they are in charge of other staff and are responsible for their training. We also offer Level 3 Food Hygiene for Supervisors in: Catering | Retail. Those in a role where they supervise or manage others working with or handling food are recommended to complete a Level 3 Food Safety and Hygiene course. Understanding how hazards can occur in food manufacturing businesses and what problems they can create, how to make an effective HACCP plan and keep your site in good condition are just come of the factors needed to uphold satisfactory health and safety standards as a supervisor in manufacturing.
  • Anyone who oversees food production for a food retailer needs to be aware of all food safety and hygiene standards, including how to effectively manage staff to minimise risk. It is recommended that retail premises should have at least one person trained to Level 3 in food hygiene and safety - particularly if they are in charge of other staff and are responsible for their training. We also offer Level 3 Food Hygiene for Supervisors in: Manufacturing | Catering. Those in a role where they supervise or manage others working with or handling food are recommended to complete a Level 3 Food Safety and Hygiene course.
  • An important aspect of food safety is a successful food safety system, and anyone working in the food industry needs to be aware of how this system works. Businesses may use a system designed to meet their needs, but EU law requires that all food safety systems are based on the HACCP guidelines and so it is important that food staff understand them. Our Level 3 HACCP training course is designed for food safety managers, supervisors, team leaders, and business owners who are responsible for developing and maintaining HACCP systems. Only by providing effective HACCP training can you ensure that you and your employees are suitably competent to fulfil their duties safely and to internationally recognised HACCP standards.
  • This package consists of 2 popular safeguarding courses - Safeguarding Adults Level 3 and Dementia Awareness. Together they ensure those working with vulnerable adults, such as those with dementia remain compliant with an up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding policies, legislation and guidance to keep them safe from harm.
  • This package consists of 2 popular safeguarding courses: Level 3 Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Assessment. This ensures those working with adults remain compliant and have up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding policies, legislation and guidance as well as how to act with best interests of individuals and the importance of autonomy with reference to mental capacity.
  • This training is designed to give learners a much deeper understanding of the key issues facing LGBTQ+ workers and how to ensure that they are safeguarded in the workplace. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to create an inclusive environment for all employees through their policies and procedures.
  • Our Licensing Law Awareness course will give learners a deeper understanding of the Licensing Act 2003. It is relevant to any business in England and Wales where alcohol is served or supplied. The Licensing Act 2003 applies to any premises in England and Wales where alcohol is sold or supplied, and we understand how daunting legislation compliance can be. Therefore, we have designed a course that will make it simple and comprehensive for you.
  • Our short course is aimed at anyone who manages a remote team and would like to learn how to maintain a team culture and effectively promote team engagement and communication. With remote working fast becoming the norm, it is important to adapt your managerial skills so that they are appropriate to managing a remote team. As distance is a significant factor in remote teams, it is easy for team members to feel isolated or disconnected from their colleagues. Our short course focuses on how you can maintain a healthy team culture and promote effective team engagement and communication.
  • The course describes how to assess when change is needed and uses the four key aspects from the Harvard Business Review to conduct the analysis on an organisation and decide whether it is ready and needs change. Best practice identifies change as a continual cycle and the cycle ensures that change is managed consistently.
  • The course describes basic leadership styles, their strengths and weaknesses and their suitability in different situations. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different leadership styles and how do great leaders mix and match these to their business advantage?
  • This course describes how to manage team performance using different management models and by identifying the different roles and requirements in a team, as well as understanding motivational theory. The course reviews what kind of problems a team leader can encounter and the types of interactions which may occur. The module looks at Belbin’s nine team roles model and describes each role in more detail and also considers the Tuckman model of team development. Finally, the course reviews the four main motivational theories from Maslow, Herzberg, Adams and Vroom and how to use these to understand team behaviour.
  • This managing difficult conversations course covers how to approach difficult conversations and the steps and principles involved in addressing them. It covers resolving conflict, performance management, reflective activity, effective two-way communication, and generating confidence and commitment in your staff.
  • Being able to manage change within an organisation is hugely important to ensure its success. Understanding how to manage change is skill often overlooked, but can prove to be incredibly beneficial. This 45-minute online course looks to help managers manage change within their teams and organisations. Our course has been designed to help you grow expert managers within your organisation. It is not only cost-effective and high-quality but through our human-centred design, we place the learner at the forefront.
  • The course reviews the reasons, drivers and reactions to change and enables the learner to understand how to manage resistance to change. Change theory is reviewed including Jungian’s four groups of people; Kotter’s eight step model of change and looks at different ways to plan for change.
  • Our managing remote teams course then reviews three practical leadership styles, ideal for developing teams: transaction, transformational and situational. What are the skills required in developing an effective team and what behaviours would be evident in an effective team leader, to help the team achieve its goals? Managing remote teams can require different skills because of the varying locations, time zones, work patterns, etc. Additional effort on the part of the leader and the team members is required to achieve the team goals and effective communication is particularly important.
  • Effectively managing a team has a positive effect on team morale, motivation and productivity. Yet it isn’t a skill that is often developed. Our 60-minute online course, designed for new or experienced managers in any sector, provides the insights they need to confidently and effectively manage their team. Our course will help you grow expert managers in your organisation.
  • Professionalism in the workplace is essential, regardless of your job. This means representing your company well both in person and online, including via your personal social media profile. Of course, you don't have to reference your job on your personal channels, but colleagues, clients and prospective employers are now easily able to search for you online and see how you spend your time outside of work. If you're self-employed, it's arguably even more important to know how to manage your professional digital profile to ensure the lines between your private and professional lives remain clear. What's more, General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) mean businesses need to ensure staff are not sharing sensitive information on their personal social media profiles, and know exactly how far their digital footprint stretches.
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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.
  • The Coronavirus pandemic has forced businesses to adapt their way of working, and as a result working remotely has fast become the new norm. We recognise that this affects the way a manager manages and leads their team. One way which is important, especially given the turbulent times we find ourselves in, is how to keep the team motivated. Our course has been created specifically to support here. It will provide you with useful tips and insights into topics such as understanding what motivates your team; giving feedback, recognition and praise, and motivating your team during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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    Online COSHH and Fire Safety Training Package

    Original price was: £50.00.Current price is: £40.00.
    This training pack contains two health and safety courses for workers in any sector. The Fire Safety training conforms to government fire safety regulations and allows employers to train their staff to the legal requirements. By completing this COSHH training course, learners will be able to work with hazardous substances safely and effectively in a way that is appropriate to their work. Employees will understand the risks associated with dangerous substances, and the precautions they can take to ensure their safety. This training material will provide learners with the facts about the COSHH legislation and how important it is for businesses to ensure employee safety. Learners will recognise the responsibilities of employees and employers when it comes to COSHH regulations, understand COSHH guidelines and learners will also be able to identify harmful substances in the workplace and their effects.
  • This online safety course describes the various forms of abuse and danger caused by the use of technology and the internet, both for adults and children, and gives detailed information on how to counter its effects. This online safety training course will help learners to identify adults and children at risk and what forms online abuse takes, and how to recognise them. This course will provide learners with the information they need on how to help and protect adults and children from the dangers of technology. The ability to protect children, young people and at-risk adults from harmful or inappropriate material online is extremely important, and anyone working with these groups needs to be able to identify potential risks as well as the signs and symptoms of vulnerabilities or suspected abuse.
  • The operational risk management training course course briefly describes ten management theories which underpin successful operational management and then reviews each one in more detail. These include: The Principles of Lean, Six Sigma, Systems theory and many more. The responsibilities and key functions of operational management are discussed as a multi-disciplinary function covering HR, assets and costs.
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