IOSH Work Placement Assessors
Work experience involves arranging work placements, fully preparing and briefing students at school before they are placed in an organisation, and debriefing them afterwards. Students will be placed with an employer to carry out a range of tasks defined in a job description, with an emphasis on the learning aspects of the work experience. It is one of the most important link activities between employers and secondary schools and colleges.
The activity involves more students, more employers and more days of practical experience than any other activity and this exposure to work is a significant step in preparing young people for adult and working life. The placement provides an ideal opportunity to foster an early understanding of the importance of health and safety and to influence the attitudes of the future workforce.
This occupational safety training course was developed to provide sufficient knowledge to be able to assess a workplace in terms of health and safety to determine its suitability as a work experience placement.
Who should attend?
Those in the education sector, Learning and Skills Council, education business partnerships and other organisations who arrange, monitor or administer work experience placements.
What are the learning outcomes?
- The ability to identify a range of common hazards presented by workplaces, and control measures necessary to ensure the risks are reduced to an acceptable level
- The ability to communicate effectively with employers providing work experience opportunities, so they are reasonably satisfied that those employers will fulfil their health and safety responsibilities to those on work experience placements
Course content:
- Managing health and safety on work placements and relevant legislation
- Work placement health and safety assessment, monitoring and review
- Common workplace hazards
- Loss causation theory
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Birmingham
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2 Days |
£325.00
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£295.00
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Edinburgh
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2 Days |
£325.00
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£295.00
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London
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2 Days |
£325.00
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£295.00
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Course outline
Also available to download: IOSH Work Placement Assessors (PDF 67kb)
Course objectives:
The aim of this course is to provide delegates with sufficient knowledge to be able to assess a workplace in terms of health and safety in order to determine its suitability as a work experience placement.
On completion delegates will be able to:
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved in work experience placement
- Understand the causation theory of work-related accidents/incidents and ill health and the methods of prevention
- Identify a range of common hazards presented by workplaces, and control measures necessary to ensure the risks are reduced to an acceptable level
- Communicate effectively with employers providing work experience opportunities so they are reasonably satisfied that those employers will fulfil their health and safety responsibilities to those on work experience placements
Who should attend?
The course is intended for all those in the education sector, Training and Enterprise Councils, Education Business Partnerships and other organisations that arrange, monitor or administer work experience placements.
Previous involvement in work placement assessment, including arrangement, monitoring or administration would be advantageous.
Further information:
The practical assessment must be completed in the workplace and submitted within two weeks of completing the course.
Course content:
- Managing health and safety on work placements
- Key principles of health and safety law
- Relevant legislation
- Introduction to work placement health and safety assessment
- Loss causation theory
- Common workplace hazards and controls
- Monitoring and review
- Assessment theory and practical.
Qualification
Delegates attending and successfully completing both the practical and written assessments will be awarded a certificate from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
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