CPD Approved

Managing Occupational Health & Wellbeing Course Description

This course explains the key elements, procedures and activities involved in successful Occupational
Health and Safety Management in the workplace.

The course show how professional Occupational Health and Safety Management benefits individuals
and organisations.
It will investigate workplace health models, including the basic criteria of the World Health
Organisation model.
You’ll discover the importance of a Health Needs Assessment and how it leads to the development
of a Heath Management Strategy.
On a more practical level, the course will look at hazards, risks, controls and ‘Safe Systems of Work’
and the role played by health risk assessments.
Turning to workplace well-being, we’ll explain how to promote healthy lifestyles and positive mental
health.
You’ll learn how to manage absences from work, both authorised and unauthorised, how to create
an official Attendance Policy, manage the return-to-work process and deal effectively with
absenteeism.
Finally, the course discusses the steps needed to develop and build a strong health and well-being
culture, including leadership, communication, work-life balance and embracing change.

Duration: 90 minutes (Note: This is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off. It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions)

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand what Occupational Health and Safety is along with the benefits of promoting a healthy
• organisation.
• Create Health Management Strategies and collaborate with professionals for effective
• implementation.
• Define Employee well-being, risk factors and understand the importance of promoting a positive
• culture around occupational health.
• Create Risk assessments and understand when and where they are needed and the process to create
• effective assessments.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at supervisors and managers who are responsible for the health and wellbeing
of their employees.

Advantages

Creating a culture of health, safety and wellbeing in the workplace increases staff morale and
ensures a high level of retention.
Online training is flexible, efficient and cost effective meaning the candidate can progress through
the modules at their own pace and in their own time, so they can fit the training in around their
work and personal life.

Further Progression

Other business skills and health and safety courses would be great follow ups to this one, especially
Leadership Skills, Developing Teamwork and Health and Safety in the Workplace.

Module Number	Module Name	Pass % Required
1	Occupational Health Basics	70
2	Health Risk Assessments	70
3	The Health Risk Assessment Process	70
4	Long-Term Personal or Health Conditions	70
5	Employee Well-being	70
6	Substance Misuse	70
7	Managing Absence	70
8	Creating A Culture	70

Recommended System Requirements

• Browser: Up to date web browser
• Video: Up to date video drivers
• Memory: 1Gb+ RAM
• Download Speed: Broadband (3Mb+