Home working safety training

Home working is becoming much more popular, but remote working comes with it's own set of potential health and safety issues.

This course is designed to raise awareness of the risks and hazards that are prevalent within the home-based workplace.

Learning objectives

Understand what being a homeworker means
Undertake and implement homeworking assessments
Recognise the risks and hazards that come with working at home
Use best practice to decrease the risks and hazards of homeworking
Identify the risks of fire in the home as a homeworker
Take action to ensure your home and data security standards are effective

Home working safety training course content

What is homeworking? - In this section, we’ll cover what being a homeworker means, types of homeworkers as well as homeworking assessments and plans.
Common hazards and risks - We’ll cover the key factors of a workstation, good practice guidelines as well as risk and hazard prevention.
Fire safety at home - We’ll cover household fire alarms, escape route planning and good housekeeping.
Security at home - In this section, we’ll cover home security and data security.

How the course works

Health and Safety for Homeworkers (Employees) is delivered online as an interactive course to each trainee on their computers, or portable device at any internet enabled location. The interactive course is engaging, informative and exciting to use.

Using up-to-date, modern graphical images, users will be faced with a selection of interactive elements and mini quizzes to test their knowledge.

Users will receive informative advice and guidance and will be tested on their understanding of the subject at the end of the course by completing the compulsory self-test elements.

This course also features a risk checklist which asks the user a series of questions relating to their current working environment.

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Why use Access Learning for Home working safety training?

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