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Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Settings Course & Certification
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The Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health & Social Care Settings course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of how to maintain safe, supportive, and compliant environments for both service users and care professionals. It emphasizes the importance of safeguarding physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing while ensuring adherence to legal, regulatory, and organisational health and safety requirements within health and social care services.
This course covers key areas including health and safety legislation, risk assessment and management, safeguarding principles, infection prevention and control, manual handling techniques, workplace hazard identification, emergency procedures, incident reporting, duty of care, mental health and wellbeing support, stress management, safe working practices, and person-centred care approaches. It also highlights the importance of promoting a positive safety culture, maintaining compliance with care standards, and ensuring continuous improvement in care environments. Upon completion, learners gain practical knowledge to contribute effectively to safer workplaces and improved wellbeing outcomes in health and social care settings.
Who Should Enrol?
- Health and Social Care Workers
- Care Assistants and Support Workers
- Nurses and Nursing Assistants
- Residential Care Home Staff
- Domiciliary Care Providers
- Allied Health Professionals
- Healthcare Support Staff in Hospitals and Clinics
- Social Workers and Community Care Professionals
- Healthcare Students and Trainees
- Managers and Supervisors in Care Settings
- Health and Safety Officers in Care Organisations
- Anyone responsible for safeguarding and wellbeing in care environments
What you will learn
Understand the fundamentals of Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health & Social Care Settings, including key health and safety principles, regulatory requirements, safeguarding responsibilities, and the importance of maintaining safe and supportive care environments.
Gain knowledge of risk assessment processes, hazard identification, infection prevention and control measures, safe manual handling practices, emergency response procedures, and incident reporting systems.
Learn how to apply duty of care, workplace safety protocols, and person-centred approaches to protect both service users and care staff. Develop understanding of mental health and wellbeing support, stress management techniques, workplace wellbeing strategies, and the promotion of a positive safety culture.
Build competence in applying safe working practices, compliance with care standards, and continuous improvement methods to reduce risks, enhance wellbeing outcomes, and ensure high-quality care delivery across health and social care settings.
Course Syllabus
- About this course
- Who this course is for
- Why health + safety matters here
- What you'll be able to do
- How the course works
- Accreditation + benefits
- Templates you'll take away
- Why health + safety matters
- Who is affected
- Duty of care and creating a safety culture
- Roles + responsibilities at every level
- Creating a safety culture
- Consequences of poor practice
- Health + safety in daily care routines
- Your first weeks
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Management of HSW Regulations 1999
- CQC requirements and fundamental standards
- RIDDOR 2013
- COSHH 2002 and Manual Handling Regulations
- Equality, human rights and mental capacity considerations
- Employer and employee responsibilities and enforcement
- Hazard versus risk
- The 5-step risk assessment process
- Dynamic risk assessment
- Environmental hazards
- Behavioural + clinical risks
- Infection + biological risks
- Lone working risks
- Recording + reviewing
- The chain of infection
- Standard precautions
- Hand hygiene
- PPE selection + use
- Cleaning + decontamination
- Waste, sharps + laundry
- Outbreak management
- Protecting the vulnerable
- Manual handling + the law
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- People versus loads
- Hoists + equipment
- Person-centred handling
- Team handling + communication
- High-risk situations
- Avoiding unsafe practices
- Fire risks in care settings
- The Fire Safety Order 2005
- Fire prevention
- Detection, alarms + first actions
- Evacuation strategies
- PEEPs — personal evacuation plans
- Fire equipment awareness
- Wider emergency planning
- Hazardous substances in care
- COSHH 2002 + assessment
- Pictograms, labels + SDS
- Storing substances safely
- Safe handling + controls
- Responding to spills
- Medication-related hazards
- Cleaning + disinfectants
- Safe work equipment + PUWER
- Electrical safety
- Display screen equipment
- Maintenance + inspections
- Slips, trips + falls
- Safe workplace design
- Equipment for service users
- Reporting + withdrawing kit
- Why reporting matters
- Immediate actions after an incident
- Accident books + incident reports
- RIDDOR 2013
- Near misses — gold dust for safety
- Root cause analysis
- Duty of candour
- Building a learning culture
- Safeguarding responsibilities
- Recognising abuse + neglect
- Responding to disclosures
- Understanding distressed behaviour
- Violence + aggression at work
- De-escalation techniques
- Personal safety + lone working
- After an incident
- Workplace stress in care work
- Recognising the signs of stress
- Burnout — when coping runs out
- Compassion fatigue + moral distress
- Building personal resilience
- Mental health awareness + stigma
- Supporting colleagues
- Creating a wellbeing culture
- Safety leadership at every level
- Policies people actually use
- Worker involvement + safety reps
- Audits + inspections
- Measuring safety
- Continuous improvement
- Learning organisations
- Sustaining a positive safety culture
- Course complete
- 📘 Bonus: Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health & Social Care Settings eBook (Free with purchase)
Course Benefits
eBook
Access the course content in eBook format, which can be downloaded and read on your device.
CPD Points
Gain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, accredited by The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. These can be used to count towards the distance learning element of any scheme that comes under the umbrella of The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges or any other scheme for which there is mutual recognition.
Certification
Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.
Affordable
You get excellent value through our cost-effective prices. We can also offer you group discounts on larger purchases.
Flexibility
The course saves you time through the convenience of online availability. This lets you complete the interactive course at your own comfort.
Keep Up to Date
You will stay up to date with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, CQC fundamental standards, RIDDOR 2013, COSHH 2002, Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, LOLER 1998, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and Care Act 2014 safeguarding duties, plus current HSE, UKHSA and NICE guidance for care settings.
Learn from Industry Experts
The course content reflects current UK health and social care practice, written by specialists in care-sector health and safety, infection prevention and control, moving and handling, and safeguarding, and aligned with CQC inspection expectations.
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