Safety professionals you consult will detail your specific Health & Safety Training needs. This article gives you an overview of employers responsibilities and lists the areas that every company need to have staff trained. I do run the risk of over simplifying things, so you may want to review employer's duties* in additional information. And there is a course in the EazySafe Learning Centre that covers "Health & Safety For Managers".

Before getting into the trainning a little bit about employers duties. By law employers must:

1. provide and maintain a “safe working environment” for their employees and contractors
2. carry out a risk assessment on all potential hazards, and document them with precautions and processes in the company’s safety statement.
3. they must train their employees to ensure they are competent to work safely in their job.

What safety training does every company need?

Every employer must provide Induction training for all employees to ensure they understand their role workplace safety.

Do your employees do any of the following?

• lift a computer
• Put paper in a photocopier
• take books or folders off shelves
• push/pull a trolley/cart

If your employees move things at work they must receive manual handling training.
According to the law, they must be trained, and retrained at least every 3 years.

First Aid

How many First Aiders you need in your company depends on the number of buildings, people on a floor, the nature of their work, staff turnover, and because you need to have a trained person available it could also depend on the amount of holidays and sick leave you provide your First Aid staff!

Fire Safety

You must train your staff so that they are aware of fire hazards and know how to act in case of a fire. You must have an evacuation plan, and have a trained fire wardens to account for that every employee on the premises.