The Health and Safety Foundations for Care Professionals Training Course by Imperial Corporate Training Institute is designed to provide healthcare workers and care professionals with essential knowledge of workplace health and safety practices within care environments. This Healthcare Management training course focuses on building awareness of safety responsibilities, risk prevention, infection control, emergency response, and safe working procedures to support high-quality patient and resident care.
Participants will gain practical understanding of health and safety legislation, hazard identification, manual handling principles, safeguarding responsibilities, and incident reporting procedures. The course equips care professionals with the confidence to maintain safe environments, reduce workplace risks, and comply with healthcare safety standards across hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, residential care facilities, and community care settings.
Objectives
- Understand the principles of workplace health and safety in care settings
- Learn how to identify and manage common healthcare hazards
- Develop awareness of infection prevention and control measures
- Understand safe manual handling and patient movement techniques
- Improve emergency response and accident reporting procedures
- Gain knowledge of safeguarding and duty of care responsibilities
- Learn how to maintain compliance with healthcare safety regulations
- Promote a culture of safety and wellbeing within care environments
Target Audience
This course is suitable for:
- Healthcare assistants
- Care home staff
- Support workers
- Nurses and nursing assistants
- Residential care professionals
- Community healthcare workers
- Healthcare supervisors and coordinators
- Healthcare administrators and managers
- Individuals entering the healthcare and care sector