Module Description
The award is intended to provide a good awareness of health and safety matters. The award primarily provides the necessary information in order to anticipate and eliminate accidents and related illnesses.
This award aims to support learners in becoming proficient in health and safety. The main components – legislation, occupational health and safety, first aid, and risk assessment – are covered. These will assist learners to perform their duties in a safe manner and to be able to guide their coworkers in safe practices.
In order to maintain the topic’s relevance, the activities and content will be contextualised. Consequently, the learners will be exposed to health and safety aspects in a variety of contexts, such as at work, at home, and in everyday life.
Entry Requirements
- N/A
Target Audience
- This award targets individuals who would like to advance their knowledge and skills on the subject of health and safety.
Career Paths
- This award aims to equip learners with a basic knowledge of occupational health and safety.
Assessment
- The mode of assessment varies and may include in-class tasks, and/or home-based written assignments using diverse assessment tools which may include related case studies, verbal assessment, etc. Furthermore, formative assessment may take place during the sessions in the form of discussions, feedback, etc., but it will not be graded and, therefore, will have no weighting. The assessment aims to provide the learner an opportunity to produce evidence of their competences aligned to the learning outcomes of this module. Furthermore, the tasks may include different forms of assessment which allow and promote students’ knowledge in the area.
Learning Outcomes
Competences
At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to:
- Interpret basic health and safety legislation.
- Acquire a holistic introduction to health and safety.
- Become more knowledgeable regarding workplace safety.
- Identify the risks and safety measures of working at height.
- Learn about fire safety.
- Administer basic first aid.
- Conduct elementary risk assessment.
Knowledge:
By the end of the module/unit, the students will be able to:
- Interpret basic health and safety legislation
- Acquire a holistic introduction to health and safety.
- Identify the risks and safety measures of working at height
- Learn about fire safety.
- Administer basic first aid.
- Conduct elementary risk assessment.
Skills
At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the following skills:
- Apply knowledge and understanding of relevant health and safety legislation.
- Identify common causes of accidents and work towards their prevention.
- Engage cosistently in the creation and promotion of workplace safety.
- Make use of appropriate safety equipment when working at height.
- Apply general fire prevention and safety principles.
- Properly conduct first aid practice.
- Identify related health risks and hazards and collaborate in adequate risk investigation and assessment.