Providing health and safety information and training helps you to:
Why provide Health & Safety Training?
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Ensure that people who work for you know how to work safely and without risks to health
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Develop a positive health and safety culture, where safe and healthy working becomes second nature to everyone.
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Meet your legal duty to protect the health and safety of your employees.
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Contribute towards making your employees competent in health and safety
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Can help your business avoid the distress that accidents and ill health cause.
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Helps to avoid the financial costs of accidents and occupational ill health.
The law
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 requires you to provide whatever information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of your employees.
This is expanded by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, which identify situations where health and safety training is particularly important, eg when people start work, on exposure to new or increased risks and where existing skills may have become rusty or need updating.
Self Employed?
If a person working under your control and direction is treated as self-employed for tax and national insurance purposes, they may nevertheless be treated as your employee for health and safety purposes.
You need, therefore, to take appropriate action to protect them.
If you do not wish to employ workers on this basis, you should seek legal advice. Ultimately, each case can only be decided on its own merits by a court of law.
Get in touch
Who needs health and safety training?
You do
Whether you are an employer or self-employed, are you sure that you’re up to date with how to identify the hazards and control the risks from your work? Do you know how to get help – from your trade association, your local Chamber of Commerce, or your health and safety enforcing authority? Do you know what you have to do about consulting your employees, or their representatives, on health and safety issues? If not, you would probably benefit from some training.
Your managers & supervisors
If you employ managers or supervisors they need to know what you expect from them in terms of health and safety, and how you expect them to deliver. They need to understand your health and safety policy, where they fit in, and how you want health and safety managed. They may also need training in the specific hazards of your processes and how you expect the risks to be controlled.
Your employees do
Everyone who works for you, including self-employed people, needs to know how to work safely and without risks to health. Like your supervisors, they need to know about your health and safety policy, your arrangements for implementing it, and the part they play. They also need to know how they can raise any health and safety concerns with you.
Contractors and self-employed people who may be working for you do!
Remember, these people might not be familiar with your working environment and safety systems that you have put in place for regular employees.
Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it…
ATS Group are an extremely professional organisation.
They were tasked with completing 41 bricklaying NVQ’s for our workforce, across the south of the UK. They were completed in an acceptable time-frame and throughout both their office staff and the assessors were a pleasure to work with. If you are looking for training or a form of NVQ assessment, I would give these a try.
Henry Major, Booker Building Co
Jay Nash is an amazing trainer.
Good fun training, no boring at all. Did the 1 day training sa10 confined space. Time went very fast. Great explanation and new learning experience.
Dipak Gurung
Great service from ATS Group and tutor.
I was provided with excellent support and information by Scott Hopton. Absolutely fantastic lad, very helpful, efficient and shared his knowledge and experience.
Giresse Kaka Lombe
Great course varieties.
Great setup for practical training. Trainer Scott Hopton knowledgeable and easy going.
Pete Colley
I would recommend using ATS Basingstoke to anyone who asked without hesitation.
Just want to thank everyone at ATS Basingstoke for a wonderful experience…
Zac D
Extremely happy with the whole service provided
I recently did my A59 360 above ten tonne machine ticket, the trainer was exceptionally helpful and made time for each learner fairly to ensure we all had plenty of time to practice. All payed off as I passed.
Tyler Hayward
Trainers are on point.
Great set up for practical training, trainers are on point and know their stuff.
Dave Martin
Highly recommend industry training here.
Great training session @ATS group, Jason Nash was absolutely brilliant , very informative made it fun the way he training , loved the way he explains everything , felt like I have known. Very professional and organised.
Nauman Sultan (Maan)
Trainer was informative and open to questions.
Site was clean and had all the required facilities including clean restrooms and on site catering.
Glenn Robertshaw
Would recommend this course.
I had Scott Hopton, clearly explained and very helpful.
Gary Preston
Looking forward to coming back for my confined space training.
Brilliant training school, great location, very well presented classes.
Joseph Walker
Very professional start to finish, enjoyed every moment.
Recommend everyone in telecoms to train here, all the staff are very friendly and they give free refreshments throughout the day. My instructor Jason Nash is a well spoken man and he demonstrated everything over and over until we understood. Will definitely train here again. Bravo 👏
LM
Highly recommend industry training here.
Great training session, @ATS group, Jason Nash was engaging, made it fun and very informative, loved the way he has a personal touch, felt like I have known him for years. Very professional and organised.
Y. Wrightie
Really good trainer wants to see you succeed.
Really good trainer wants to see you succeed. Very helpful in answering questions practical side was good and a real eye opener to how to set up and pack down a site. Overall a really good day with a good bunch of blokes would recommend for anyone wanting to get unit 2
KG
Keeps you entertained and engaged with the course!
Great experience with my NRSWA course. Had a really good time with Jason N. Just an awesome trainer and keeps you entertained and engaged with the course! A+++
Mirko De Cagna
Great team of people, amazing training center.
Recommend these guys for your training. Jason is a great trainer taught me and my team what we needed definitely will be using ATS for any company needs!
Kadeem Antoine
Very clear and concise delivery and all questions answer.
Trained on SA002 by Jason! Great fun, interesting course by a knowledgable, professional trainer. Look forward to my next training course with ATS 👍🏼
Dan Harvey
Thanks to all the team at ATS!
A relaxed way of learning, which probably helped me pass considering I had never driven a A17 Telehandler. Thanks to all the team at ATS! One word of advice revise the theory!!!
John Dore
Great team of people, well sorted training center.
Recommend these guys for your training. Great trainers taught me what I needed and helped me complete my course for A17 telehandler would recommend.
Dragos Drak
A fantastic team who I can’t recommend enough for their patience, professionalism and encouragement.
Brilliant training facilities in a very well organised and friendly environment. Many thanks for getting me through my CPCS A17 Telehandler course. I tip my hat to you all.
