Protecting Yourself When Home Working in Ireland

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Protecting Yourself When Home Working Remote working offers benefits such as reduced commute times, flexible schedules, and increased productivity. However, it also brings health and safety challenges. This course addresses the risks and ensures employees understand how to protect themselves from injury and ill-health while working from home.

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Overview

Keeping Yourself Safe When Home Working Matters

There are many benefits to working from home, including reduced travel time, more flexible working patterns, and higher levels of productivity. These benefits have brought remote working to the forefront of working life, with many employees in Ireland now working from home on a permanent basis. However, home working can also present a number of health and safety risks and it's important for employees to know how to protect themselves from injury and ill-health when working from home.

The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, places certain legal duties on employers and employees to ensure a good standard of health and safety in the workplace. This includes when the employee is working from home.

What's Included

What is Included: Protecting Yourself When Home Working

The purpose of this course is to provide all employees in your organisation with an overview of how to protect their physical and mental health whilst home working. Although the employer is primarily responsible for managing health and safety, all employees have a duty to take care of their own health and safety. It is vital that employees understand their responsibilities under health and safety law.

This course is designed specifically for organisations based in Ireland who have employees working from home.

Topics covered include:

The importance of health and safety when home working
Your responsibilities under health and safety law
How to protect your physical health while home working
How to protect your mental health while home working
How to work together to protect each other
Common household hazards to watch out for

Should you have a particular need to brand or tailor any of our courses to your specific requirements, that is no problem at all. We offer a full bespoke service in-house. If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact our eLearning Client Executive, Glen Bell - glen@legal-island.com

Importance of Training

Understanding the Unique Health & Safety Risks when Home Working

Home working creates unique health and safety risks, from ergonomic concerns to psychological stressors. Proper training empowers employees to:

Prevent mental health challenges caused by isolation or overwork
Avoid physical injuries like repetitive strain or back pain
Minimise disruptions from illness or injuries, reducing time off work
Sustain productivity and maintain long-term career health

Understanding these risks helps build a healthier, safer workforce and reduces costs associated with absenteeism and turnover for employers.

Who needs this Protecting Yourself when Home Working training?

This course is essential for organisations with remote employees. All employees, regardless of role, need to understand how to care for their own health and safety.

Good practices in home working means a safer and healthier workforce; and consequently a more effective workforce.

Course Duration

How long does Protecting Yourself When Home Working Take?

This course will take no longer than 30 minutes to complete including an assessment. Each member of staff will receive their own personalised certificate upon successful completion.

Key Statistics

Why learn with Legal Island?

We take huge pride in the training we deliver across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Our key statistics show:

97%

of users said they found the courses beneficial for their organisation

96%

of users said they found the courses convenient and easy to use

96%

of users said their knowledge of the compliance topic area improved

96%

of users said they would recommend our eLearning courses to other organisations

750,000 +

hours of training and course content delivered

200,000 +

employees across the island of Ireland have now benefitted from our services

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"The comprehensive and easily accessible eLearning courses from Legal Island enabled our organisation to deliver consistent and standardised training across the company. This uniformity enhanced operational efficiency and boosts our employee productivity, as staff members have a clear understanding of policies, procedures, and best practices in various compliance topic areas."

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"During the unprecedented time of Covid, Legal Island's eLearning training courses enabled us to provide key compliance training to our staff who were and remain working from home."

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"We wanted to upskill our people managers for managing in the remote environment, and Legal Island's eLearning met all our objectives. Completing the course via eLearning meant our employees could allocate a time that suited them, to complete the training. Legal Island managed the administration, making the process seamless for us."

Imelda Flattery HR Manager, Engineers Ireland

"This eLearning training course was exactly what we needed to ensure our commitment to the Health and Safety of our staff. The training was easy to set up and gave us peace of mind knowing staff are fully informed in advance of returning to work."

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