Health and Safety Training

Health and safety law says:

• Employees must be trained and clearly instructed in their duties.
• Employers and host companies must ensure contractors are properly trained and competent to work safely.

Everyone who works for you, including self-employed people, needs to know how to work safely and without risks to health. So you need to train them so they know what hazards and risks they may face and how to deal with them. Health and safety training should take place during working hours and must not be paid for by employees.

Some employees may have particular training needs, for example:

• new recruits,
• people changing jobs or taking on extra responsibilities,
• young employees who are particularly vulnerable to accidents.

You also need to ensure that new, inexperienced or young employees are adequately supervised.

It is very important that you keep records of all training to show that it is being carried out. It is also sensible to get anyone who has attended training to sign to say that they have been trained.

Future training sessions

We provide training session at our local training centres for

• Foundation Health and Safety Course (2 days duration):
• Foundation Food Hygiene Courses (2 days duration):
• Refresher Food Hygiene Training Courses

Unfortunately we have no training sessions planned at the moment - but check back soon for details of next years dates.

For more information contact:

Worcestershire Regulatory Services
Civic Centre, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Pershore, Worcs. WR10 1PT

Telephone: 01905 822799  - Monday to Friday 8am - 8pm, Saturday 9am - 5pm
Fax:          01386 561826
Email:       environmental.health@wychavon.gov.uk