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Office health & safety

Course Overview

Offices are generally considered to be relatively safe and without risks to health. However, every year office workers suffer injuries and ill health associated with poor practices and working conditions. Millions of working days are also lost, which has a serious impact on profitability.

Employers are required to prevent or control exposure to hazards in offices such as those causing work-related upper limb disorders, stress and manual handling injuries. This course is designed to enable employers to comply with the law. The relevant legal requirements will be reviewed, including the duties on employers to ensure a safe and healthy workplace, provide safe systems of work, undertake risk assessments, appoint competent persons, install safety management systems and implement procedures for reporting injuries and ill health arising from work.

Delegates will be provided with advice and specimen documentation, firstly, to enable them to undertake risk assessments required under, for example, the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 and the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 and, secondly, to carry out various forms of safety monitoring, such as audits and inspections, of their offices. In particular, we examine the duties of employers with respect to the tort of negligence and under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

The course is presented by one of our two speakers:

Jeremy Stranks is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, well known as a consultant, author, trainer and expert witness in the areas of health and safety. He is a founder member of the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health and former chief examiner.

Caroline Harmer, a lively and well-known speaker on legal matters. A founder member of The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, she has wide knowledge in the area of health and safety, and lectures regularly on the subject. Caroline is in practice as a barrister.

Comments by delegates

"I found it was well planned, full of knowledge and I'd recommend this course to everyone" - Gareth Jenkins, Glyntaff Tenants & Resident Association

"Very useful and very enjoyable. The presentation of the course and its structure ensured that I learnt a lot" - Sheila Viegas, Wellington Primary School

Course Content

Duties of employers and others
  • Civil and criminal liability of employers and others
  • Common law duties of employers
  • Negligence and breach of statutory duty
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
  • Duties of employers and others
  • Enforcement procedures
  • Penalties
  • Statements of Health and Safety Policy
    • Objectives
    • Scope
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
  • Risk assessment
  • Specimen risk assessment documentation
    • Workplace, work activity and work group
    • Manual handling operations
    • Display screen equipment
  • Competent persons
  • Prevention and control strategies
Hazards in Offices
  • Fire
  • Slips, trips and falls
  • Electrical appliances
  • Access equipment
  • Display screen equipment
  • Manual handling operations
  • Stress
Safety monitoring in the office
  • Audits and inspections
  • Hazard reporting systems
  • Accident and ill health reporting
  • Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
  • Social Security Act 1975

Course Dates and Locations

Southampton 26 April 2012
Central London* 3 July 2012

Course Fee
£369, *Central London £399 (+VAT) per person.

Reductions are available for companies booking multiple places on the same course (same date) as follows:
•  For 2 places take £60 off the booking total
•  For 3 places take £120 off the booking total
•  For 4 places take £240 off the booking total
•  For 5 places take £340 off the booking total

Course fee includes: course materials, full lunch and refreshments.

Tel: 01202 706222 Fax: 01202 706444
email: training@benchmark-group.co.uk

Reductions are available for companies booking multiple places on the same course (same date):
2 places £60 off the total
3 places £120 off the total
4 places £240 off the total
5 places £340 off the total