Health & Safety
RIDDOR: Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
20 mins CPD
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80% required to pass
Relevant for roles:
Practice Manager, Receptionist / Client Care Advisor, Veterinary Care Assistant, Veterinary Nurse, Veterinary Surgeon
Course Details
- This course aims to raise awareness of what duties apply under RIDDOR.
- You will be presented with a coursebook followed by an assessment with options for feedback and reflection.
- Once you have achieved a mark of 80% or more, you will be presented with a certificate to download.
- If you do not pass you will have the opportunity to review the content and retake the assessment.
Aims
This course aims to raise awareness of what duties apply under RIDDOR.
Regerences
- Health and Safety Executive – Health and Safety Training: a brief guidehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg345.pdf
- Health and Safety Executive – Reporting accidentshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/toolbox/managing/reporting.htm
- Health and Safety Executive – RIDDOR reporting of Injurieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/
Maintain health, safety and security practices within a health settinghttps://www.sqa.org.uk
Skills for Health SS03 Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security in the workplacehttps://tools.skillsforhealth.org.uk/competence-details/html/2130/
- National Occupational Standards SCDHSC0022 Support the health and safety of yourself and individualhttps://tools.skillsforhealth.org.uk/external/SCDHSC0022.pdf
- National Occupational Standards for Prevention and Management of Work-Related Violencehttps://tools.skillsforhealth.org.uk/external/425_ENTOWRV1.pdf
- National Occupational Standards Work Safetyhttps://tools.skillsforhealth.org.uk/external/2797_UNIT49.pdf
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37
Objectives
During this course learners will be able to:
- Understand the importance of reporting health and safety concerns.
- Understand the reporting processes used and how the organization uses the information gathered to help manage risks.
- Raise health and safety concerns.
- Outline their individual responsibilities in reporting incidents, ill health and 'near misses'.