Workplace Safety for the Engineering Industry

Description

Syllabus/Course Structure and Assessment

Courses are aimed at supporting engineering apprentices and T-Level learners who are taking their first steps into the workplace environment, providing basic information in a range of key health and safety hazards in the engineering workplace.

Modules allow an understanding of the concept of hazard and risk, a learner's own and their employer's legal obligations, the types and nature of safety hazards and how to avoid the hazard or reduce its risk of causing harm and how to respond to emergency situations. In addition to common mandatory health and safety modules, learners will also choose modules relevant to their occupational pathway.

Pathways include:

• Manufacturing Engineering
• Maintenance and Operations (MOET)
• Aerospace & Aviation
• Maritime
• Rail
• Electrical
• Domestic Plumbing
• Domestic Gas

Supports the following mandatory knowledge element of most engineering apprenticeships : "Understand relevant industry health and safety standards, regulations, environmental and regulatory requirements".