Health & Safety Training Zone
SAFETY AT WORK IS ESSENTIAL
During your apprenticeship your safety in the workplace is paramount. All employers of JTL apprentices must comply with the requirements of current Health and Safety legislation and codes of practice.
Before you can begin their apprenticeship with their employer a qualified JTL representative will visit the employer and conduct an extensive review, or a Pre-placement Vetting, to make sure that your client is being placed with a company that takes their training and health and safety seriously. If they do not match up to our standards then your client will not be allowed to proceed on their apprenticeship with them.
When talking to employers your client needs to let them know that we will need to do this before we can obtain funding for them. Their Training Officer will be able to give you and the employer all the advice they need.
The sort of things we will be looking for are:
Registration with HSE or Local Authority (unless working from a domestic premises)- Employers Liability Insurance (minimum of £5m)
- Public Liability Insurance (minimum of £1m)
- A Safety Policy
- A Fire Certificate (if required) and Fire procedures
- Risk Assessments
- First Aid procedures
- An Accident Book
- Provision of Personal Protective Equipment (free of charge)
So that we are certain that your client will be safe throughout their apprenticeship, their employer will also be required to:
- Carry out a medical on all apprentices to ensure they are fit enough to do the job
- Provide apprentices with a Health and Safety induction
- Carry out all necessary risk assessments to ensure all steps are taken to reduce the risk of anything untoward happening to an apprentice
- Have procedures in place to report any accidents to JTL.
It is typical small print stuff, but you should take a look at the schedule at the side of this page which explains in detail what we will expect from client's employer.
