Employability Skills – IOSH Training for Schools and Colleges

IOSH Training for BTECH Students and Apprentices: Online Health and Safety eLearning Packages Courses designed to help Apprentices, Sixth form and BTECH students achieve Employability Skills.

In Britain, in the last decade, 53 under 19s were killed at work and over 13,000 suffered major injuries. More than 42,000 other teenagers were also hurt in the workplace.

Our online Health & Safety training courses are designed to help those entering work prevent themselves and others from being hurt.

Schools and colleges are beginning to understand the need for Health and Safety training and want to provide a competitive advantage for school leavers especially for the BTECH courses and for those students seeking apprenticeships.  Recently in Hertfordshire, several schools have been the first schools in the UK to have provided IOSH training for some students.

What are the benefits for students?

Key life skills in hazard and risk identification

Students gain a clear advantage with an enhanced C.V

Employers state 75% more chance of an interview

Nationally recognised certificated training

A full understanding of Hazards and Risk Assessment will not only help individuals keep themselves and others safe in the workplace but also improve career opportunities and their employability skills. Employability skills can be defined as the transferable skills needed by an individual to make them ’employable’. Along with good technical understanding and subject knowledge, employers often outline a set of skills that they want from an employee. Health and safety skills are a real advantage for students on their C.V.

BTECH Students & Apprentices

Many students leave school looking for an apprenticeship in plumbing, carpentry, electrician, motor mechanics and painting and decorating. However many start work not realising the dangers they face. In Britain, a worker aged between 16 and 24 years old suffers a reported workplace injury requiring more than 3 days off work every 12 minutes of every working day. A young worker is seriously injured at work every 40 minutes. Workplace fatalities in the 16-24 age range occur at a rate of more than one a month. There is evidence work is becoming more hazardous for young workers. The combined total for “fatal and major injuries” in 16-24-year-old employees has trended upwards in recent years.

There are over 4 million workers in the UK aged between 16 and 24 years old. Over half a million of these are only 16-17 years old, have little previous experience of work and yet can be taken from school and placed in most jobs facing most hazards. They are more likely to be in a first job, more likely to be new to a job and more likely to be in an insecure or temporary job. They are at the bottom of the workplace pecking order, with little influence, power or knowledge of workplace culture and rights. That can be a dangerous combination at the start of a working life.  Add to this the half million school students who go on work placement every year and the quarter of a million who at any one time are on government-supported apprenticeship schemes, and that is a lot of young people facing a lot of risks in a lot of workplaces. Schools, colleges and businesses are beginning to see the importance of training young people and the IOSH Working Safely course gives students a good start to their working life.

BTECH COURSES 

Below is an example of BTECH courses that schools are more and more recognising the need for health and safety training for students

BTEC  in Construction is a six-unit course introducing pupils to not only a range of construction skills such as carpentry and bricklaying but also an understanding of the Construction Industry. The course is very hands-on and every attempt is made to apply new skills in a real-world context. Units offered include brickwork, carpentry and joinery, plastering, painting and decorating, roofing, tiling, plumbing and electrical operations.

BTECH in Design and Technology pupils combine practical and technological skills with creative thinking to design and make products and systems that meet human needs. They learn to use current technologies and consider the impact of future technological developments. They learn to think creatively and intervene to improve the quality of life, solving problems as individuals and members of a team. The department has a suite of six rooms, many facilities and a wide range of equipment, ranging from traditional tools to more up-to-date equipment. Equipment includes a laser cutter and dedicated computer areas which enable pupils to further their designs.

BTECH Diploma in Production Arts /Technical Theatre includes stage lighting and sound, video projection, stage management, set construction and painting, technical maintenance and electrical installation. Students frequently work on productions, building their portfolios for the next stage of their professional careers.

Objectives of the IOSH Working Safely course

By the end of the training students will be able to:

• Identify common hazards in the workplace
• Be aware that some types of injury or ill-health can occur after prolonged exposure
• Identify factors that constitute a satisfactory working environment
• Appreciate how individual actions may endanger colleagues or those passing through the workplace

Certification

For students who successfully complete the final assessments, there is a choice of accreditation, either an IOSH Working Safely certificate or an IOSH passport card programme. Working Safely meets the government’s guidelines for introductory health and safety training and is a 100 per cent match to the Health and Safety Executive’s ‘passport’ syllabus.

Safety Skills for Life: Online Health and Safety eLearning Packages

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