Health & Safety

Health Surveillance

Schools have a duty of care to look after the health and wellbeing of staff and children alike. Health surveillance helps you spot early warning signs of illness caused by substances or other hazards in schools. It’s vital for minimising the risks to staff whose job could affect their health and safety, and for HSE compliance.This course will show you what to do.

Learning outcomes:

Identify all staff in your school who require health surveillance to ensure the correct support is offered
Implement an effective health-surveillance scheme within your school to proactively support your staff
Use health-surveillance results to inform appropriate actions required to minimise risk to school staff health
Create and maintain appropriate health-surveillance records for your school to meet legal obligations

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What you will learn

Who is this course for

This course shows you how to identify if health surveillance is necessary, and how to set up and maintain a health surveillance scheme in your school.

This course is ideal for a head of year, school business manager or whichever staff member is in charge of health and safety in your school or MAT, because it’s their job to make sure health surveillance is carried out correctly.

Why choose iAM Compliant

Peace of mind with testing

This course also has an assessment at the end which allows learners to test their understanding and helps businesses demonstrate a level of competence in the topic.

Accessibility

Everyone has the right to learn and learner need can vary depending on environment or disabilities. To support this diversity, we provide transcripts so people have text options for media, alongside subtitles for all videos.