How to introduce health and safety apprenticeship to the workplace?

Posted by Anna Haris on January 8th, 2019

Health and safety are important to everyone in the workplace especially young people are particularly exposed to accidents at work as they do not have as much experience or instruction as older workers. A worker with proper training and knowledge can able to avoid accidents or injuries during their duty in the construction site. 

Each and every business could get benefit from employing a dedicated safety professional which have attended an apprenticeship programme in health and safety. There are over 600,000 workplace injuries recorded in the past few years due to lack of proper awareness. Health and safety apprenticeship programme is designed to approach the impact that improvements in technology and innovation are having on business working practices. Construction sites are the main training platform for thousands of young apprentices who have set off to learn a trade or skill, often through vocational abilities. Businesses should consider ways to improve internal Health and Safety standards and the possible benefits of employing a dedicated safety professional.

Apprenticeships always took a positive and advanced step to fight the risk of workplace injury, and for launching a health and safety course in the workplace. Health and safety apprenticeships teach key risk awareness and incident prevention skills, like how to conduct a workplace assessment and identifying hazardous working practices for all the employees. These are skills which can be applied to any working environment and provide practical application of learned theory to avoid injuries and accidents in the worksite.

Benefits of participating in an apprenticeship program by the employees in the workplace:

• Can earn while you learn
• Cut to the Chase
• Get an Education and practical knowledge
• Earn more with the knowledge gained
• Strengthen the career and avoid workplace injuries or accidents during the work.

The importance of training or apprenticeship

Training is vital to the success or completion of any health and safety management system. When it becomes to it, it is how people work and the decisions they make that can cause or limit accidents and conflicts. So, effective training is key to that success.

• The learner or the candidate can continue at her or his own quickness and is by default actively included in the training. 
• There is no limit on the number of employees that can be trained affording there are adequate IT facilities
• Personal or individual progress can be monitored and results tracked during the preparation
• The adaptability of information and control can be maintained and assured in the workplace
• There can be the opportunity to join online discussion groups or association made with teachers and mentors
• There can be blended learning opportunities where the learner serves training sessions in addition to the e-learning
• Online or classroom packages can be visually pleasant, engaging and interactive.

Apprentices working on construction sites have the right to be correctly shielded and deserve a fair opportunity as they start their working lives. This will only be achieved if their particular vulnerability to risk is considered and dealt with by employers and those supervising construction sites. Only by positive action will potential disaster be prevented.