Health and Safety For Homeworkers

This Health and Safety for Homeworkers Training is an ideal course for those who work at home, whether this is on a full time or part-time basis. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, working from home became a necessity for many people across the country. Now, this has become a normal way of working for many people, as there are huge benefits for people's work/life balance.

Just like working in an office, working from home still holds its own risks and hazards. It may be easy to disregard these health and safety risks, as your home may feel like a familiar and safe environment. However, caution and awareness should still be upheld to ensure that the safety and well-being of yourself and others that you may share your home with is protected.

This course will help employees to gain knowledge and awareness on how to conduct a 5-step risk assessment in their home to identify the risks and hazards within their working environment. It also looks at how employees can achieve a good work/life balance, which provides benefits for both mental and physical health.

• Train online at your own pace with a full audio voiceover
• Assured by RoSPA & Accredited by CPD
• Certificate on successful completion
• Course duration: 45 minutes
• Unlimited resits at no cost

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Who is this Health and Safety for Homeworkers for?

If your job role involves working from home, or you have members of staff that work from home, then this course will benefit you. It looks at the hazards and risks that are within the home and that surround home working. These hazards could include manual handling, slips, trips and falls, workstation setup and electrical safety. It is important that homeworkers are aware of the risks that they may face when working from home and how they can implement safety measures to help lower or remove the risks completely.

We have an introduction to health and safety which is an ideal place to start if you're looking to understand the basics. For those seeking further knowledge and are in managerial or supervisory type role, should be taking a Level 3 health and safety in the workplace as that course includes content such as organisation and management of health and safety at an organisation or business.

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Health and Safety for Homeworkers Certification

Our entire library of training courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as adhering to the universally recognised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

This training course and it's content has also been assured by RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Upon passing the online assessment you will have the options to both print and download your Health and Safety for Homeworkers Training Certificate in PDF format. In addition to this an automated email will also be sent to your chosen email address containing a link to your certificate ensuring you always have access to a copy.

Furthermore, a QR code is displayed on each certificate which when scanned by a smartphone links to our certification database. This allows employers, auditors and local authority inspectors, for example, to establish a certificates validity instantly and at any time.

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Course Aim

If your job role involves working from home, or you have members of staff that work from home, then this course will benefit you. It looks at the hazards and risks that are within the home and that surround home working. These hazards could include manual handling, slips, trips and falls, workstation setup and electrical safety. It is important that homeworkers are aware of the risks that they may face when working from home and how they can implement safety measures to help lower or remove the risks completely.

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Learning Objectives

On completion of the course, you should be able to:

• List some responsibilities that employers have for their workers who are working from home
• List some responsibilities that employees have whilst working from home
• Identify the definitions of ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’
• Name the five steps to a risk assessment
• Identify how to handle electrical equipment safely
• Identify how to implement fire safety measures at home and safe fire evacuations
• List some hazards surrounding slips, trips, and falls at home
• List some steps on safe manual handling
• Identify how to properly set up a workstation
• Identify how to set up your display screen equipment properly
• Identify how new and expectant mothers may need other arrangements whilst working from home
• List some mental health signs and symptoms
• Name some ways you can benefit your mental health and well-being whilst working from home

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Training Course Content

This course is made up of the following modules:

• An Introduction to Health and Safety for Homeworkers

  This section introduces the learner to the course. It looks at some working from home statistics and how workers should have a working environment that is safe and comfortable.

• Module 1 - Roles and Responsibilities

  This section of the course concentrates on the roles and responsibilities that both employers and employees hold when it comes to working from home. It is important that workers are familiar with what they should do or not do when working from home to ensure that their work area is safe.

• Module 2 - Common Hazards and Risks

  In this section, we’ll cover the key factors of a workstation, good practice guidelines as well as risk and hazard prevention

• Module 3 - Hazards and Risks

  This section of the course covers the definitions of a hazard and risk. It also looks at how to conduct a 5-step risk assessment at home and why this is important. This section goes into further detail about the potential risks and hazards that may be within your home, such as fire, electrical safety, slips, trips, and falls and manual handling.

• Module 4 - Physical and Mental Health

  This final section will cover what should be included in a proper workstation setup and how to set up your workstation safely to help avoid unnecessary injuries, aches, or pains. This section concentrates on Display Screen Equipment (DSE) and why following the correct DSE recommendations is important.

  You will also look at how to look after your mental health and well-being whilst working from home, plus it raises awareness of the signs and symptoms of poor mental health.

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Assessment

On completion of the course lessons and training material an online assessment will automatically unlock. The assessment will contain 15 multiple-choice questions and a mark of 75% or above will be required to pass.

The assessment will be marked instantly and so you will know straight away if you have passed or not. If you don't pass first time there's no need to worry. Unlimited resits at absolutely no additional charge are available so you can retake the assessment again as many times as you need to.

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