Health and Safety in the Workplace (4065)

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Last Updated: 27 Sep 2019

The Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace provides learners with the basic knowledge for keeping themselves and those around them safe in a work environment, covering such important skills as using protective equipment, dealing with accidents and controlling risks.

Where more in depth skills are required, the Level 2 Certificate in Health and Safety in the Workplace offers the opportunity to develop a range of key areas , such as fire and hazardous substances, fire precautions and e-safety. It can provide a stepping stone for those who wish to pursue a career as an Occupational Health and Safety officer.

The Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace is ideal for organisations that wish to adopt a standard approach to training their staff in health and safety to ensure the basic legislative requirements regarding appropriate precautions is met by employees, work placement students or apprentices.

For those who are looking to gain more knowledge of particular aspects of health and safety due to their particular job, the Level 2 Certificate is can provide the understanding of specific areas.

These qualifications are at those with no formal training in health and safety, and could be used for those looking to return to work.

Available to deliver in the following:

England
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland

Interested in delivering this qualification?

Find out more about how to become an approved City & Guilds centre or fill out our online customer application form.

General Information

What Is Involved In Studying This Course?

You can gain knowledge around a number of aspects of health and safety in the workplace, either sufficient to remain safe and safeguard others in the workplace (Award) or a depth of knowledge (Certificate) in areas such as:

Risk assessment
Manual handling
Fire safety
Working safely with computers and the internet.

You will learn in the classroom.

Assessment is through a range of City & Guilds set exams that will be short-answer test and/or multiple-choice examination.
Is this the right level?
Level 2
For those who need an introduction to health and safety who have little or no previous knowledge.

What Careers Can This Lead To?

These qualifications do not lead directly to employment, but can be or form part of a training/induction programme for employees, works experience students or apprentices.

What Is Involved With Delivering This Course?

To deliver these qualifications you will need qualified trainers and assessors, wither trained internal members of staff or recruited specially, and suitable facilities to carry out the required training to enable learners to achieve industry standards.

To find all the resource requirements for assessment and delivery, download the qualification handbook from the centre documents section.

Centres currently offering the City & Guilds Level 2 Award in Health and Safety for the Workplace (3682) and/or City & Guilds Level 2 Progression Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (3681) can gain fast-track approval for these qualifications.

There are no eligibility requirements for these qualifications.

Level 2

This level provides an introduction to health and safety for those with little or no previous knowledge.

There are two qualifications available at Level 2:

Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (4065)
Certificate in Health and Safety in the Workplace (4065).

The award comprises one mandatory unit:

Health and safety in the workplace.

This longer certificate comprises three mandatory units and a range of optional units, including:

Fire safety awareness
Risk assessment
Moving people safely
Internet safety for IT users.

For a full list of units, download the qualification handbook from the centre documents section.

What Careers Can This Lead To?

These qualifications do not lead directly to employment, but form part of a training programme for employees, works experience students or apprentices.

Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (4065-12)

Last Registration Date: 31 Dec 2023

Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace

Accreditation No: 501/2252/6 This is a reference number related to UK accreditation framework
Type: Credit based qualification This is categorisation to help define qualification attributes e.g. type of assessment
Credits: 1 Credits are a measure of the size of the qualification
Guided Learning Hours: 10 - 10 This is the average contact time a centre would typically commit
Total Qualification Time: 10 The total time for the qualification
Key Stage: Data unavailable This shows the equivalent Key Stage level.
Last Certification: 31/12/2025 This is the last date that a certificate can be issued

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Health and Safety in the Workplace (4065)