CIEH Level 2 Award in Health And Safety In The Workplace

This qualification will benefit anyone in a work environment as it provides candidates with an understanding of health and safety that will enable them to contribute to any risk assessment based health and safety management system.

Successful completion of the training programme and assessment will enable candidates to understand:

• health and safety requirements placed on employers and employees
• hazard and risk and the main causes of harm to workers
• health, safety and welfare provisions in the workplace
• the importance of following safe systems of work, procedures and rules
• hazards and controls in respect to both safety and occupational health risks
• how their own actions can reduce risks to health and safety.

The training time to cover the syllabus must be at least six hours and is typically covered in one day.

The candidates are assessed by an examination paper consisting of 30 multiple choice questions to be completed in one hour under examination conditions. Candidates who achieve 20 or more correct answers will pass the examination and receive a certificate.