Are you meeting your legal obligations?
“Employers have a legal duty to protect workers from stress at work by doing a risk assessment and acting on it. This is the same duty you have to protect people from other health and safety risks.“
This means that employers have a legal duty to include staff mental health in their risk assessments. Just as you assess the hazards of slips and trips, you also need to be considering potential issues around:
- Workload
- Conflicting deadlines
- Staff shortages
- Work-life balance
- Challenging students (non-specific)
- Administrative burden
- New technology overload
- And more
All of these are foreseeable risks that should feature in your generic setting risk assessment as part of your standard practice. However, many education employers have not managed to embed this properly yet.
That is why we are offering this targeted CPD course – to take you on a step-by-step journey through the process of adding mental health to your risk assessment.
This training enables you to:
- Learn about categories of, and how to identify, mental health hazards
- Risk assess the likelihood of specific hazards
- Identify and record control mechanisms (current and future)
- Identify gaps in your provision
- Access our risk assessment templates and matrix for mental health
- Complete a mental health risk assessment
- Be introduced to individual stress risk assessment
- Be legally compliant
By completing this education sector tailored course, you can be confident in your comprehensive coverage of mental health within your risk assessments.
One Time
£195 + VAT
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