Course Details
Hazardous substances are present in every day in working and living environments. The Highfield accredited COSHH course provides learners with the knowledge and skills to recognise the different types of these hazardous substances.
The Highfield level 2 award has been designed to support our learners who may have contact with hazardous substances with the ability to identify the substance, understand the risk associated and implement additional control measures.
The qualification supports workplaces such as maufacturing, cleaning, healthcare, transport, utilities and also traditional occupational working environments such as offices and classrooms.
- The principles of hazardous substances
- Identifying risks and implementing controls
- Procedures and precautions required
- COSHH symbols and information required
- General procedures for incident handling
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations 2005 requires that all members of staff that come into contact with a potentially hazardous substance, to be trained the safe methods for handling and cleaning up the substance. This can be something simple like bleach, or a more potent chemical like hydrofluoric acid. This course will allow you to evidence that such training has been completed.
The awarding body Highfield issue all certificates via PDF format. This will be emailed to the course booking contact on successful completion of the course, once recieved from Highfield.
3 Years
