Basic Short Courses
Apart from the most common short training courses we offer over 300 courses including tailor-made presentations as per Client request.
Navigate our full list below. If you have any specific course requirement, please feel free to contact us.
F
Length: 4 hours
Sector: All sectors
Why should I attend? It is a legal obligation of an employer to have a trained fire warden on the premises. Fire warden training plays a pivotal role in keeping your occupants safe during an
emergency. Your fire warden’s involvement encompasses the most crucial aspects of emergency management, such as fire drills and evacuation practice, accounting for people during an evacuation, monitoring fire risk control measures, and implementation of the emergency procedures in your building, just to name a few.
Course covers the following:
- Fire warden duties
- Roles and responsibilities
- What to do when you hear the alarm
- Prevention
- Common Fire Hazards
- Confinement , Suppression, Smothering
- Proactive & Reactive communication
- Evacuation
- Fire Drills
- Assembly points, Roll Calls
- What is Fire
- Different Types of Fire Extinguishers & Classes of Fires
- Methods of fire transfer
- Using a Fire Blanket
Length 12 hours (3 sessions of 4 hours OR 4 sessions of 3 hours)
Sectors: All Sectors.
Why should you attend? Every work place must have trained first aiders by law. Low risk areas (offices, hotels, schools etc) need to have one trained first aider per 50persons. A first aider must be present in the workplace at all times, so if someone is not there all the time, they need replacements. High risk areas (construction, quarries, tunnels, mining, confined spaces, explosive areas (ATEX), work with chemicals need to have one trained first aider per 25 persons. A first aider must be present in the workplace at all times, so if someone is not there all the time, they need replacements.
Delivery Persons. If a person is working alone he needs to be trained. If they travel in pairs, at least one of them must be trained.
Length: 8 hours (2 sessions of 4 hours each)
Must be done to renew the first aid certificate (every 3 years)
Sectors: All Sectors.
Why should you attend? Every work place must have trained first aiders by law.
Low risk areas (offices, hotels, schools etc) need to have one trained first aider per 50persons. A first aider must be present in the workplace at all times, so if someone is not there all the time, they need replacements. High risk areas (construction, quarries, tunnels, mining, confined spaces, explosive areas (ATEX), work with chemicals need to have one trained first aider per 25 persons. A first aider must be present in the workplace at all times, so if someone is not there all the time, they need replacements.
Delivery Persons. If a person is working alone he needs to be trained. If they travel in pairs, at least one of them must be trained.
Length: 3 hours
Sector: All office environments
Why should I attend? Office safety training is as vital as office safety itself. It enables the management to ensure a safe and healthy work environment. It also helps the employees to recognize safety hazards and correct them. It enables them to understand best safety practices and expectations.
Course covers the following:
- Statistics
- Legal Requirements
- Hazards & most common injuries
- Workstations
- Sitting postures
- Computers
- Light sources
- Storage and Stacking
- Electrical safety
- Temperature
- Air quality and ventilation
- Back pain
- Manual Handling and Ergonomics
- Accident Reporting
- Slips, Trips and Falls
- Stairs
- Filing Cabinets
- Office Machinery
- The first aid box
- Stress
- Fire
- Biological Hazards
- Workplace Bullying
- Office Hygiene
H
In addition to caring for and educating babies, toddlers and young children, an early childhood educator needs to ensure that children are kept safe and secure.
An awareness and understanding of health and safety issues is therefore a must! This course will give you a detailed introduction to health and safety specifically in Childcare Centres based on years of experience. This course will serve as a refresher to those who already possess previous training in basic health and safety, however, this particular course tackles topics specifically focused on Childcare Centres.
The following are the topics tackled in this course:
- National Standards for Child Care Facilities
- Physical environment, premises & equipment
- Health and safety of children
- Child protection
- Ergonomics
- Occupational Stress
- Risk assessment
- Providing safe toys and materials
- Maintaining safe adult-to-child ratios
- Supervision indoors and outdoors
- Teaching safety rules
- Safe sleep for preschool age children
- Child abuse prevention, identification, & reporting
- Preparing for emergencies
- The Law
- Development milestones
- Provisions for children with disabilities
Training consist of presentation, case studies, discussion and test (which requires a 65% pass mark), and once all units are completed, an award certificate is issued by our staff.
The delivery of the training can either be in a physical classroom format or online, via Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
Please feel free to contact us so that we can supply a quotation according to your preference.
I
Length: 6 hours
Sector: Any worker in the building and construction industry
Why should I attend this course? Many of the common construction hazards can be contained or avoided if proper safety training is provided. Aside from the obvious benefit of keeping workers safe, a safe workplace will reduce overall construction costs. By making safety a priority, contractors can significantly reduce worksite injuries and deaths.
Course covers the following:
- Introduction – Legal Notice
- New Facts/General workplace safety
- Personal protective equipment
- Safety signage
- Safe access
- Working at heights / scaffolds
- Ladder safety
- MSDS’s – Chemicals
- Manual Handling
- Crane safety, hoists and rigging
- Working platforms
- Compressed gas cylinders
- Electricity
- Tool safety
- Fire safety
- Public safety
- Earthmoving equipment
- Excavations and demolition
- First Aid
- Drugs, alcohol and bullying
M
Length: 3 hours
Sector: Most Sectors. Construction, office work, manufacturing, warehouses, showrooms, delivery persons.
Why should you attend? Manual handling training is about teaching your employees how to safely move heavy items either by lifting, carrying, lowering, pushing or pulling them. It is within the best interests of employees and employers to carry out this kind of training to minimise the risk of injuries resulting in absences.
Course covers the following:
- Identify common work related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)
- Recognize risk factors with work related MSDs
- Identify ergonomic control methods for eliminating / reducing work related MSDs
- Hazard identification
- Legal obligations
- Statistics
- Racking & Storing
- Pushing / Pulling Loads
P
Length: 6 hours theory and 4 hours practical (split into sessions as is most convenient for client)
Sector: Construction
Why should you attend? It is a legal requirement to train workers required to operate such work equipment and machinery under legal notice 282 of 2004, regulations 3 (3.2) and 9 (a). Worker Training is also a generic requirement under Legal Notice 36 of 2003, Regulation 4 (3)
Course covers the following:
- Explanation of the relevant part of Legal Notice 293
- Basic Principles of safe working at heights
- General safety rule son site
- Basic Operating principles
- Load charts and principles of safe lifting
- Basic rigging principles
S
Length: 7 hours
Sector: Construction, Event organizers, Warehouses, Restoration works
Why should you attend? This training will help keep your workers safe by making them aware of potential safety hazards, which will reduce the number of worksite accidents and help you avoid fines and costly litigation.
Course covers the following:
- Legal requirements
- Types of Scaffold
- Scaffold hazards & accidents
- Design and Stability
- Design loads
- Risk assessment
- Site survey and planning
- Basic components
- Ties and Anchorages
- Working platform
- Timber decking/boards
- Overhead power lines
- Public Safety
- Scaffold access
- Staircase Towers
- Signage and PPE
- Tube & coupler vs Cuplock
- Mobile tower Scaffolds
- Do’s & Don’t’
- Inspections
T
Length: 1- 2 hours (depends on number of attendees)
Sector: All Sectors
Why should you attend? Every workplace must have at least one HS rep elected from the staff, but cannot be part of management. If the company is large with several departments, it is advisable that they elect one HS rep from each department to form a HS committee.
Course covers the following:
- The Law – Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA)
- Employer Obligations
- Employees’ Obligations
- OHS Representative
- Duties
- Obligations
- Role
- Benefits of having a H&S Representative
W
Length: 3 hours
Sector: Construction, Warehouses, Factories, Cleaning Companies, Sign installers, AC companies, Solar power companies.
Why should I attend? Attending a Working at Height Course will Reduce the Risk of Accidents/Injury. All companies want to reduce the chance of accidents and injury. An injured worker means less efficiency, the possibility of being sued and additionally lowers the morale of co-workers.
Course covers the following:
- Facts about falls from height
- Legal requirements
- Definitions
- Hierarchy of controls
- Mobile elevated working platforms (MEWP)
- Planning and assessments
- Ground condition
- Ladder safety
- Personal fall protection
- Anchorages
- Fall clearance
- Rescue plan
- Inspection and maintenance of personal equipment
- Suspended platform
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)