Level 3 Health & Safety Training for Teams & Businesses

K4 Training offers a regulated Level 3 health and safety course for supervisors, managers and employees with health and safety responsibilities in the workplace.

Health and safety is part of every workplace, but having responsibility for it is a different matter. You need to understand the law, know how to assess risks and be able to deal with hazards before they cause an accident.

The Level 3 health and safety course gives you a more detailed understanding of these areas. It’s designed for people who need to do more than simply follow basic workplace safety rules.

The course covers the main areas you’ll need to understand when taking on health and safety responsibilities.

You’ll learn about:

• UK health and safety laws and employer responsibilities
• Workplace health, safety and welfare
• Health and safety management systems
• The cost and impact of accidents and ill health
• How to carry out a simple risk assessment, as part of broader risk assessment training
• Different types of risk assessment
• The hierarchy of control
• Workplace hazards and how they can be controlled
• Occupational, environmental, human and organisational factors
• What to do after an accident or incident
• Basic accident investigation
• How to identify immediate and underlying causes
• Communicating health and safety information effectively

The course also covers areas such as manual handling, fire safety, hazardous substances, electrical safety, work equipment and mental health in the workplace.

This workplace health and safety course is aimed at people who have, or are taking on, health and safety responsibilities at work.

It’s particularly suitable for:

• Supervisors and team leaders
• Managers
• Security supervisors and security managers
• Event supervisors and event staff
• Facilities and operations staff
• Employees with health and safety responsibilities
• People looking to move into supervisory or management roles

You don’t need previous health and safety experience to take the qualification, although some workplace experience can be helpful. Learners must be at least 16 years old.

Basic fire awareness or workplace safety training is useful, but some roles require a deeper understanding. If you’re responsible for a team, workplace or particular health and safety duties, you need to know more than what to do when something goes wrong. You need to understand why risks exist, how to control them and what your responsibilities are.

This health and safety training for managers can help you:

• Understand your health and safety responsibilities
• Make better decisions about workplace risks
• Carry out simple risk assessments
• Recognise common workplace hazards
• Understand how accidents happen
• Take appropriate action after an incident
• Improve how health and safety information is communicated
• Prepare for greater responsibility at work
• Support your career progression into supervisory or management roles

You’ll work towards the QNUK Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF). This regulated health and safety qualification is overseen by Ofqual and appears on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF). It carries 3 credits and has 18 Guided Learning Hours, with a Total Qualification Time of 30 hours.

Assessment is through a multiple-choice examination, graded on a pass/fail basis. It’s a useful qualification to have if health and safety forms part of your current role or you’re looking to take on more responsibility.

The course is designed around the things that can actually affect people in a workplace. You’ll look at workplace risk assessment, workplace hazards, accidents, safety management and legal responsibilities. You’ll also consider how factors such as the working environment, human behaviour and organisational decisions can affect safety. That makes this health and safety training for supervisors relevant across different sectors, from security and events to facilities, operations and general workplace management.

The qualification can support people who want to move into roles with greater health and safety responsibility.

After completing it, you can also progress to further qualifications, including the Level 3 Award in Risk Assessment (RQF) and Level 4 health and safety qualifications.

So, whether you’re developing your skills for your current position or preparing for the next step, there’s room to build from here.

Our Level 3 health and safety qualification gives you a solid understanding of the law, risk assessment, workplace hazards and accident management without making things more complicated than they need to be.

Contact K4 Training to find out more about course dates, availability and enrolment.