Health, Hygiene and Wellness at Work
Your health affects your safety, your work and your future. A tired worker is more likely to have an accident. A worker who comes to work after a night of drinking puts the whole team at risk. Untreated TB, HIV or depression can quietly damage a person's health and career, even though help is available and often free. And simple habits, such as washing your hands and getting enough sleep, prevent many problems before they start. This course covers personal and workplace hygiene, fatigue and shift work, alcohol and drugs at work and how to get help, HIV and TB awareness and your rights, stress and mental wellbeing, and the support services available to employees in South Africa, from employee assistance programmes to organisations such as SADAG and SANCA. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson has a short activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task and a final assessment, and you receive a MetaCo Certificate of Completion. This is an awareness course. It does not give medical, psychological or legal advice. For your own health, speak to a nurse, doctor or counsellor.
What you will learn
Look after your health at work: hygiene, fatigue, alcohol and drugs, HIV and TB awareness, mental wellbeing and where to get support.
- Module 1: Introduction
- Module 2: Hygiene and Fatigue
- Module 3: Alcohol and Drugs
- Module 4: HIV and TB
- Module 5: Mental Wellbeing
- Module 6: Putting It into Practice
How it is assessed
Short quizzes as you go, a final assessment with three attempts (fresh questions each time) and a practical task.
Certificate
MetaCo Certificate of Completion, with your own number and a QR code employers can scan. This certificate confirms completion of a MetaCo short course.
Part of the pathway: Mine and Site Ready
What you get
- The lessons, quiz and practical task
- A downloadable workbook (PDF)
- The Health and Safety toolkit
- A one-page cheat sheet to keep
- The MetaCo certificate with a QR verification link, and a "Copy to my CV" line
- The Career Starter Kit, free with your first purchase
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