Health and safety courses and certificates have not just become a legal necessity in workplaces, they’re also highly important to the effective function of a team and a workplace as a whole.
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health stands as the largest organisation for health and safety memberships in the world, and is dedicated to promoting greater safety in workplaces worldwide. They achieve this through their health and safety courses, and direct collaboration with other businesses.
At Keep Safe Solutions, our partnership with IOSH is bringing the most comprehensive and accessible health and safety training services to businesses and organisations all across the UK.
We want to contribute to a culture of conscientiousness in the workplace, where health and safety practices are second nature. Keep reading to find out how we can help you achieve this.
Why are health and safety courses so important?
Many of us like to think health and safety mostly falls into the realm of common sense, but you’d be surprised by just how extensive proper practices and precautions can be. We’ll spare you from the lightbulb jokes, but there are plenty of complexities that often get overlooked in workplaces.
Health and safety courses aren’t just about teaching the dos and don’ts. Effective training will stress the importance of teamwork and contribute to your employees’ productivity and morale in the long term.
And whilst there are free options available online, there’s no contest when it comes to effectiveness. Consider your school days: were you more likely to remember your lessons if they were just reading textbooks, or when the teacher gave you practical and engaging problems to solve together?
This is why training courses are so important. It’s not just what you need to learn, but also how you learn it.
By directly engaging with your team, they become more proactive, actively considering risks and managing them, in turn fostering a far more productive and engaging culture in the workplace.
By adopting the proper practices from our health and safety courses, you will find:
- Lower chance of injury and incidents, meaning lower costs and comfortable employees
- Improved engagement and satisfaction with work for everyone
- Proactive management of risks and enforcement of safety practices at every level
- Alignment with the regulatory and legal requirements of your work
Proper health and safety practices may be a legal requirement, but you’ll find that the skills and attitudes you adopt from our IOSH health and safety courses are far more valuable than just ticking the legal box for your company.
Our courses
We tailor our courses to your organisation, building a safety-conscious culture from the ground up that reaches every individual in your workforce, from employees up to management.
We firmly believe that a hands-on approach is the best way to learn, and we provide real problems for you and your team to solve together, giving you the tools and knowledge to implement into your daily workplace practices, whilst never forgetting the importance of co-operation.
From our Managing Safely course, to our more generalised Working Safely course, we aim to bring a clear and direct form of training that doesn’t eat into your time and doesn’t spout jargon at you.
Depending on what you need and for who, our courses can save you from the hassle and limitations of standard training, turning what could be a chore into an engaging and fun opportunity to work with one another – and a chance to get you all out of the office.
We’ve branched out all across the country since we first established our Liverpool HQ, with our health and safety services now stretching nationwide. From the northern reaches to the southern beaches (or near enough), we’ll get you the services you need no matter where you are.
