One Day Short Courses

Norwich Union Risk Services offers a range of specifically developed short courses designed to keep you up to date with the key health and safety issues affecting your organisation. These courses are designed to cover the issues that are relevant to you.

Getting Started

The aim of this course is to provide delegates with the basic principles that small to medium sized businesses should follow to ensure compliance with legal requirements for health and safety.

On completion of the course delegates should be able to:

  • Write a safety policy
  • Identify the main sources of guidance and information
  • Identify the main steps involved in Risk Assessment (and other specific risk assessments)
  • Identify the main requirements for fire safety, welfare, first aid and employers liability cover, RIDDOR

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Driver and Fleet Safety

The aim of the course is to equip delegates with the knowledge and tools required to ensure safe and effective management of vehicle fleets.

On completion of the course delegates should be able to:

  • Identify the main hazards associated with occupational driving
  • Identify the main steps to assessing occupational road risk
  • Identify controls associated with the driver, journey and vehicle

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Business Continuity

The aim of the course is to provide delegates with an appreciation of the key principles of business continuity planning and the implantation and testing of business continuity arrangements. On completion of the course delegates should be able to understand the commercial and quality drivers which:

  • Support the need for Business Continuity within their organisation
  • Determine the pattern of risk unique to their organisation
  • Make cost/benefit analysis to support the need for a Business Continuity capability
  • Identify the key components of a Business Continuity programme and the need for testing and aintenance
  • Determine the factors required to implement the plan.

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Managing Insurance Claims

The number of personal injury claims and the resulting costs continue to spiral. It has therefore never been more important to ensure that the liability claims process is properly managed and this course is designed to help you achieve this in your company.
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Accident Investigation and Reporting

The proper investigation and reporting of accidents in the workplace is an essential requirement of effective safety management. This course has been designed to help those with responsibility for carrying out accident investigations or controlling liabiliy insurance for their organisation to effectively fulfil their obligations.
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Fire Risk Assessment Seminars

This seminar takes you through the main requirements of the amended Regulations and provides you with a system for implementing the required Fire Risk Assessment in your workplace.
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Risk Assessment Seminars

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to carry out risk assessments within the workplace, a necessary tool to ensure compliance with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.
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Controlling Your Contractors

The aim of the course is to provide delegates with an appreciation of the main hazards associated with contractors' activities, particularly construction and building maintenace activities. The course will be of particular use for insurance brokers (particularly those with a property portfolio), facilities managers, contracts managers, line managers, procurement managers and projects managers.
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Manual Handling Awareness

Musculoskeletal problems are still causing over a third of all days lost from work in the UK and many of these problems result from poor manual handling practises at work. This course covers anatomy, good lifting practise, team lifting and awkward loads and manual handling control measures.

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Workplace Transport

Vehicle movements in the workplace are particularly hazardous; whether they are delivery vehicles, lorries, cars or fork lifts trucks. This course will help you to ensure that vehicle movements are carried out safely at your premises by covering vehicle hazards, separation of vehicles and pedestrians, traffic routes, maintenance and inspection of vehicles and driver training and controls.

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CoSHH

The aim of the course is to provide delegates with an appreciation of the latest guidance and legislation on the control of hazardous substances in the workplace.

On completion of the course delegates should be able to:

  • Identify the main changes introduced in the 2005 regulations
  • Identify the main requirements of the regulations
  • Identify the CoSHH control hierarchy
  • Identify personal and environmental monitoring
  • Identify ways in which awareness can be raised
  • Outline the main requirements of LEV systems and PPE

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Behavioural Safety

Attitudes to safety can vary but it is known that a poor attitude to safety can impact on decision making and behaviour. This course looks at the simple steps that can be taken to minimise the potential for accidents by promoting positive behaviours.

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