For an overview of Health and Safety training provided by the health and safety service that you may be required to undertake please refer to this training matrix.
If you require additional advice on Health & Safety training, please contact health.safety@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or any of the Health and Safety Service.
For Sharps and Falls eLearning training and Moving and Handling Competency Assessment programmes, the following scoping document will help you identify whether you require to undertake one or more of these programmes – Scope.
Health and Safety Education
Health and safety corporate training courses are accessible to all NHSGGC staff. Additional service specific and specialised courses are provided to Directorates and Services.
Nominations
Nominations are to be made via eESS with our course sitting under the Corporate Health and Safety Category.
Please note that you will need to ensure your information is up to date on eESS for receiving communication including MS Teams links. The refer to the Employees Help Guide on eESS for additional guidance For assistance with booking courses please refer to the following
For help booking please email Health.Safety@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.
Records
Attendance will be recorded on eESS. Managers also have a duty to keep a record of who has attended training. To assist with this, if a delegate does not attend, managers will be notified via an eESS generated email..
Courses
Health and Safety Management
This course is for Health and Safety Management Manual holders and where identified their deputies. The manual holder will normally be a manager or supervisor with responsibility for the management of health and safety within their area of work.
This course is for managers who have a remit for health, safety and wellbeing; or staff with the management of health, safety and wellbeing identified within their personal development plan.
The course explains:
- Health & Safety Roles & Responsibilities,
- Safety Management System,
- Health, Safety and Wellbeing Culture Framework.
- Leadership & Behaviours The Plan, Do, Check, Act standard that the Health & Safety Executive promote and audit against.
Risk Assessment
This course is for staff who have been asked to conduct workplace risk assessments. The course will provide the delegate with a general awareness of how to undertake a generic risk assessment and complete the approved documentation. The awareness gained will supplement the workplace knowledge the delegate has in assisting them with the risk assessment process. The delegate, by attending this course, agrees to undertake risk assessments as directed by their Manager.
Those attending will:
- Gain knowledge on the development of Risk Assessments within H&S Legislation.
- Learn how to apply the principles of hazard and risk.
- Increase their awareness of hazards at work and how to control them
- Be able to undertake risk assessments
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Assessors
This course is for staff who have been designated as the COSHH Assessor by the manager responsible for H&S for their service / area they work in. The delegate will be expected to undertake COSHH risk assessments when they have completed this course. It would be expected that generally only one COSHH Assessor would be required locally in any one area with the potential for this role to be shared between similar departments
Those attending will:
- Gain awareness of The COSHH Regulations,
- Understand the Chemical and other hazardous materials, labelling and Packaging Regulations
- Be able to complete a COSHH Risk Assessment
Display Screen Assessment (DSE) Assessors
This course would be beneficial for departments or services with large DSE users groups. It is for staff who have been designated as the DSE Assessor by the manager responsible for H&S for their service / area they work in. Once trained, delegates will be expected to undertake DSE risk assessments.
It would be expected that generally only one DSE assessor would be required locally in any one area with the potential for this role to be shared between similar departments
Upon completion of the course delegates should:
- Be aware of their responsibilities as a DSE Assessor
- Be able to complete the DSE risk assessment form
- Understand how to arrange a workstation appropriately
- Be confident in identifying poor practice and giving practical solutions to resolve identified issues
- Know where to access additional information or support Know how to order equipment
Face Fit Testers for FFP3 Respirators
About the course
This course is for staff identified to undertake the role of a face fit tester. The need for this will be expressed through a clinical risk assessment, which has identified the need for FFP3 oral nasal disposable mask respiratory protection to be used against respiratory borne pathogens. To use these masks, relevant staff must be ‘face fit tested’ to ensure that they can achieve a suitable face fit of the mask and that it operates at the required efficiency.
This 3.5 hour course is designed to ensure that the candidates selected to become face fit testers are provided with both the background knowledge and the practical skills set out in the HSE document INDG479, a copy of which can be found below. It is asked that candidates familiarise themselves with this document prior to attendance.
Delegates
Delegates are requested to bring testing kits if available from their department and drinking water for the training.
Please use the links below to print off the relevant documents to bring to the course.
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Health and Safety Violence Reduction Education
The health and safety violence reduction training page contain details of courses available to NHSGGC staff.
Moving and Handling Training
The moving and handling training page contains training courses for acute, partnerships and facilities staff.
Health and Safety Training
Protect yourself, your colleagues, patients and visitors
It is important that all NSHGGC employees complete the health and safety training that is required of your role to ensure your Health and Safety knowledge is up to date in order to protect yourself, your colleagues, patients and visitors.
We agreed a number of targets with the Health and Safety Executive with regards to the following training:
- Sharps
- Falls
- Moving & Handling Competency Assessments.
What do you need to do?
All staff within the scope of any of these training modules should complete the e-learning modules identified as a requirement for your role.
If you are not sure whether this applies to you please check your LearnPro account or speak to your line manager.
If you have any difficulty accessing the learnPro platform please either email LE.Support@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or access the HR Portal.
I am a manager, what do I need to do?
As manager it is important that you ensure your staff are aware of and complete the statutory and mandatory training requirements.
Reports are issued to managers by email on a monthly basis to show the role-specific and statutory and mandatory training compliance of all employees for whom you are identified as supervisor in eESS.
Compliance is colour-coded, and employees considered out of scope for role-specific training or who don’t have a LearnPro account (and have not undertaken face-to-face training) and so are considered Unknown are highlighted in grey
Staff who are unknown either need to create a LearnPro account, or ensure their pay number is recorded as their Identification Number on LearnPro. Step-by-step guidance on creating and updating a LearnPro account can be found here.
If you have a question about an individual employee’s training record please email Learning and Education.
If there is an employee on this list that shouldn’t be, or an employee missing from the list, please contact eESS.
Sharps Training
All NHSGGC staff members must complete the following sharps training:
LearnPro NHS module GGC: 002 – Health and Safety, An Introduction. This module forms part of the NHSGGC statutory / mandatory suite of e-learning modules and must be retaken every three years.
In addition to GGC: 002, clinical staff who use sharps must also complete:
LearnPro NHS module NES: Prevention and Management of Occ. Exposure. This module forms part of the Scottish Infection Prevention and Control Education Pathway (SIPCEP) suite of e-learning modules and must be retaken every two years
Progress for all other staff
We want to remind everyone in scope to complete their training as soon as possible.
We are currently providing fortnightly updates to Directors and Chief Officers and this will continue until we achieve a sustained our 100% compliance rate.
We also recognise that some staff will be due to renew their sharps and falls training as it is valid for two years. Please ensure your certification does not expire by undertaking your refresh prior to it going out of date.
These programmes of training are vital for not only your health and safety but that of your colleagues, our patients and visitors.
If you require any further information on what is required please contact your line manager or email Health.Safety@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.