Health and Safety at Work and Risk Assessment Training Package

The seven most common health and safety risks in the workplace are:

Slips, trips and falls, ergonomic injuries, mental health and stress, manual handling injuries, fire and explosions, asbestos and electrical hazards.

You can learn more about these and how to improve the health and safety in your workplace by exploring our helpful blogs and articles here.

See our guides for writing a risk assessments here.

The "Six Pack Regulations" refers to the main health and safety regulations in the UK. They came into effect following the EU directives issued as far back as 1993, and they dictate how both employees and the general public should be kept safe in the workplace.

The Health and Safety six-pack includes:

• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
• Manual Handling Operations Regulations
• Display Screen Equipment Regulations
• Workplace (Health, Safety, and Welfare) Regulations
• Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
• Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations

The HSE currently state that specific training or qualifications are not essential to carry out a risk assessment. However, they do state that as an employer you must appoint someone who is competent, with the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to manage health and safety in your organisation.

See our resources page here, where you will find helpful blog articles and guides to risk assessments in many different areas of expertise.

To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.

Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.

Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.

If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.

The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.

If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.