Backpower is a training branch of Harness-it (Safety). It is an enterprising concept and has been designed to provide employers with a range of cost effective Health & Safety Training Programs, helping to raise people’s safety awareness in the workplace, thereby making work a safer place for all to be.

Employers are required to provide employees with information, training and instruction to ensure they are competent and to enable them to perform their duties safely. Backpower can deliver a range of bespoke training solutions.

Below is a selection of our most popular courses, which can be tailored to meet your individual company needs

• Legal Awareness, this course has been designed to focus your Senior Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors and explains to them the importance and meaning of the various regulations. As you can appreciate, failure in key areas can expose your business to un-necessary business risk. If your personnel have a clear understanding of the regulations, this will help to reduce your risk of litigation. We will explain what your duty of care is, how claims are processed and why risk assessment is important. We will outline what information needs to be written down, and what needs to be retained and what needs to be included.

• Manual Handling is the most common cause of accident and ill health in the workplace, resulting in about a third of sickness absence reports. This course will provide participants with a clear understanding of the dangers and can reduce your accident rate or lost time ratio significantly. We can also provide ‘train the trainer’ courses to suit your workforce or workplace.

• Height Safety – People working at height face greater danger of serious injury. Falling from height can result in significant long-term injury and workers are often unaware of the dangers and take unnecessary risks as a result. This is a general course, which includes the use of fall protection equipment, care and maintenance and covers the working at height regulations.

• Confined Space Access – this is one of the principal areas where access, air quality and rescue techniques present the worker with additional challenges. Everyone who enters a confined space should be confident they could be retrieved safely and efficiently. Confined spaces are prone to instable atmosphere and these require additional skills to ensure a safe system of work, air monitoring, correct use of PPE and vertical access and escape techniques.

• Compressed and Cryogenic Gases - apart from the obvious danger, compressed gases can expose your workforce and others to significant risk. These can be from fire or explosion, asphyxiation due to accidental release, or toxic poisoning due to poor management and control of your equipment.

To book a ‘training session or consultation’ or if you require further support or advice, please contact us to see how we can help

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