Competent Person Training
Skin health surveillance is an essential element in most occupational skin management systems. It aims to detect skin problems at the earliest point so early action can be taken, such as:
- Identifying causative exposures and improved exposure management
- Advice and treatment to allow continuation at work
- Ensure others remain unaffected
- Advice and guidance to ensure high standards maintained
Frequency of skin checks will depend on a number of factors including available resources. All too often the frequency needed for skin checks does not meet the resources available in occupational health. This is when the competent person becomes invaluable. Competent people are trained to do simple skin checks so that they can be more frequent.
The ideal individual is one that will naturally see a group of people during their normal work. Training these individuals to be competent in carrying out regular checks on skin condition increases our resources. The increased frequency provides a more robust and effective system.
EnviroDerm Services has considerable experience in a wide variety of workplaces in providing training to enable persons designated as first line skin condition assessors to be competent in conducting regular skin checks.
Benefits
- Increase resources for your skin health surveillance system
- Ensure a more robust and effective skin health surveillance system
- Confident competent persons
- Increased knowledge and understanding in a wider group of the workplace
- Access to additional resources
Course content
- Basics of skin anatomy and physiology
- Overview of skin disease relevant to the workplace
- The role of the competent person
- Visual assessment: simple skin checks
- Visual assessment: scoring techniques
- Worked examples of visual assessment
- Practical exercise for the competent person to check their new knowledge
- Next steps for the competent person
Further details
This course is a one hour training course run as a virtual training course for individual bookings. . The cost per person is £80 excl. VAT. Places can be booked here . Multiple bookings of 5 or more places are £70 excl. VAT.
It can also be run as a virtual single organisation course (£650 excl. VAT) and an onsite in-house course (£800.00 excl. VAT & travel costs). To book contact us with details of your requirements.
