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Our Fire Safety Funeral Course ensures essential workplace knowledge of fire prevention, detection, and response.

Benefits of this course:

• Understand the causes of fires and how to prevent them.
• Learn the fire evacuation procedure and identify escape routes.
• Gain knowledge on using fire fighting equipment and what to do if clothes catch fire.

Our Funeral Health & Safety Essentials course ensures compliance with health and safety law, focusing on accident prevention and maintaining high standards of safety.

Benefits of this course:

• Understand essential health and safety practices, including accident reporting and first aid procedures.
• Identify and reduce risks from common hazards.
• Comply with safety regulations by understanding COSHH, safety signs, equipment use, and manual handling.

Our Personal Essentials module within our Funeral Courses sector provides the learner key information to use within the workplace.

Benefits of this course:

• Learn the dress code, maintain clean uniforms, and uphold high conduct standards.
• Prioritise personal hygiene to prevent cross-contamination and manage occupational health.
• Understand equality and diversity policies and ask key questions about employment terms.

Our Funeral Security short course highlights branch security procedures, including lone working and viewing the deceased.

Benefits of this course:

• Understand branch access procedures and how to secure cash, valuables, and client information.
• Learn the restricted viewing policy for the deceased and ensure personal belongings are protected.
• Follow the lone working policy to ensure the safety of team members both inside and outside the office.

This e-briefing course quickly teaches learners the correct procedures for the identification of the deceased.

Benefits of this course:

• Gain expertise in handling removals for HM Coroner or hospital.
• Develop proficiency in arrival procedures and accurate coffin/casket identification.
• Learn essential procedures before departure and during the funeral, ensuring respectful and precise handling of the deceased.

This Legionella awareness training quickly and concisely provides a practical approach to prevent Legionella, for all housekeeping, spa, and gardening teams.

Benefits of this course:

• Understand what Legionella and Legionnaires\' disease is and how you can catch it.
• Understand the law around Legionella control and our duty to take suitable precautions to prevent/control the risk of exposure.
• Learn what preventative measures we can take.

Following what you've learnt from our essentials safety, health and wellbeing course, this training covers extra topics to help prevent accidents and keeps safety as a top priority.

What are the benefits of this course?

• Learn practical skills to manage risks effectively.
• How to handle equipment safely to reduce injury.
• The importance of building a positive safety culture at work.

Keeping your people and your business safe is a non-negotiable - and so is understanding the ins and outs of health and safety. Which is why our health and wellbeing course covers everything you need to know, including the practical skills that are so essential to a safe workplace.

What are the benefits of this course?

• Why safety, health and wellbeing is so important ? and the consequences of not taking it seriously.
• The difference between accidents, incidents, near misses and dangerous occurrences.
• That accidents and incidents must be reported to help prevent recurrence.
• What a risk assessment is and different ways to reduce the risk of common slip, trip and fall injuries.

Our violence and agression at work course helps you understand, identify and deal with workplace agression from both colleagues and customers.

What are the benefits of this course?

• Understand what can trigger workplace aggression and how you can reduce, or even eliminate, these triggers.
• How to help calm situations that could otherwise become out of hand.
• Learn what to do, and not to do, when there\'s a confrontation with customers.
• How to handle one-on-one confrontations, both during and after.

Our funeral courses are the ideal start for anyone joining a new company, giving you important information that will help you understand the sector, how the company is structured, its policies and procedures and also the help and support available to you.

What are the benefits of this course?

• Understand what working in the funeral sector entails, giving you a fantastic overview of the key info.
• Discover what the company is all about, including its core values.
• Get to grips with the key areas of your employment, including personal conduct, legal stuff, pay, benefits and time off.
• Understand the key roles and responsibilities of the people around you.