Health and Safety at Work Training Package

There are so many benefits to completing this training. Upon successfully completing the course, you will be awarded a certificate authenticated by IOSH to show you now have an awareness of the basics of health and safety. This certificate is recognised by the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS), which is a necessary requirement when applying for a CSCS card required to work on a UK construction site.

This certificate also carries the same accreditation as the IOSH Passport to Safety and acts as evidence that you have achieved the necessary training required to meet the health and safety standards set by IOSH.

Completing IOSH Working Safely is also a great way to start a career in the health and safety industry. The course offers a fantastic foundation of knowledge on which you can build, and is recognised in many different countries by lots of employers.

Learn more about the importance and benefits of IOSH Working Safely here.

Health and safety in the workplace needs to be a key priority for office and site managers to safeguard staff and reduce the risk of preventable accidents, injuries and even fatalities. There are many safety precautions and guidelines you can follow including hand hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (e.g., gloves, masks, eyewear), and taking regular breaks.

Learn how you can improve health and safety in your workplace here.

You can learn more about health and safety in our helpful article here.

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 requires every employer to provide whatever training, equipment, PPE, and information necessary to ensure the safety and health of their staff. This usually includes some form of health and safety training.

The Health and Safety Executive, local authorities and other relevant authorities are responsible for enforcing the Act, along with any other relevant Acts and statutory instruments relevant to health and safety at work.

It is also known as: HSW, HSWA, HASAW 1974 or HASAWA.

You can learn more about it here.

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.