Accredited online course
Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing
This course explains the key elements, procedures and activities involved in successful Occupational Health and Safety Management in the workplace.
Course description
This course explains the key elements, procedures and activities involved in successful Occupational Health and Safety Management in the workplace. The course show how professional Occupational Health and Safety Management benefits individuals and organisations. It will investigate workplace health models, including the basic criteria of the World Health Organisation model. You’ll discover the importance of a Health Needs Assessment and how it leads to the development of a Heath Management Strategy. On a more practical level, the course will look at hazards, risks, controls and ‘Safe Systems of Work’ and the role played by health risk assessments. Turning to workplace well-being, we’ll explain how to promote healthy lifestyles and positive mental health. You’ll learn how to manage absences from work, both authorised and unauthorised, how to create an official Attendance Policy, manage the return-to-work process and deal effectively with absenteeism. Finally, the course discusses the steps needed to develop and build a strong health and well-being culture, including leadership, communication, work-life balance and embracing change.
What you will learn
- Understand what Occupational Health and Safety is along with the benefits of promoting a healthy
- organisation.
- Create Health Management Strategies and collaborate with professionals for effective
- implementation.
- Define Employee well-being, risk factors and understand the importance of promoting a positive
- culture around occupational health.
- Create Risk assessments and understand when and where they are needed and the process to create
- effective assessments.
Who it is for
This course is aimed at supervisors and managers who are responsible for the health and wellbeing of their employees.
Why online learning works
Creating a culture of health, safety and wellbeing in the workplace increases staff morale and ensures a high level of retention. Online training is flexible, efficient and cost effective meaning the candidate can progress through the modules at their own pace and in their own time so they can fit the training in around their work and personal life.
Course content
- 1Occupational Health Basics Health
- 2Health Risk Assessments Health
- 3The Health Risk Assessment Process Health
- 4Long-Term Personal or Health Conditions Health
- 5Employee Well-being Health
- 6Substance Misuse Health
- 7Managing Absence Health
- 8Creating A Culture Health
Approved by
CPD Certification Service
System requirements
- Browserup to date web browser
- Videoup to date video drivers
- Memory1Gb or more RAM
- Download speedbroadband, 3Mb or more