DSE Scotland
DSE Training & Assessements
e-learning
Lyme Disease Awareness
Lyme Disease Awareness is a new, short e-learning course designed to help protect anyone who spends time outdoors from Lyme disease, and other tick-borne illnesses. This could be for work, volunteering and/or in leisure time.
Key topics covered include:
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ticks
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protecting yourself and others from tick bites
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Lyme disease symptoms and treatment
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removing ticks safely
Lyme Disease Awareness can also be adapted or tailored to suit your own needs - please contact us for more details.
Key Benefits:
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addresses a growing public health risk
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helps ensure compliance with UK law (specifically the requirements to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of staff and non-employees, to assess and minimise risks to health, and to provide safety-related information and training)
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directly supports workplace health, safety and wellbeing strategies for staff who work outside
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provides practical hints and tips learners can take to minimise their own risk
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available on multiple platforms including PC and tablet
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successful completion awarded with certificate
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available as embedded or hosted package
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content can be tailored to your organisation
Lyme Disease Awareness is available to purchase from our e-learning partners echo3education.
This course was developed in collaboration with subject matter experts from Scottish charity Lyme Resource Centre.
We are also grateful to Lyme Disease Action, Lyme Disease UK (LDUK) and the University of Bristol for their help.
Please get in touch if you'd like more information, or to arrange a free, no-obligation trial of the course.