L2 Award Health and Safety within the Workplace

Level 2 Award Health and Safety within the Workplace

  • This qualification is designed to provide learners with knowledge of the basic health and safety practices essential in the workplace.

  • The total qualification time (TQT) for this qualification is 10 hours and of this 6 hours is recommended as guided learning (GL).

  • The qualification provides learners with an understanding in the responsibilities of employers and employees, the benefits of good health and safety, steps to a risk assessment and how they can reduce accidents, near misses and ill-health, typical hazards and controls in a workplace, common causes of accidents, near misses and ill-health, emergency procedures and the importance of recording accidents, near misses and ill-health.

  • This qualification is assessed by a multiple-choice examination.