Slips and Trips: Advanced

Our advanced course has been developed in collaboration with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the UK government agency responsible for the regulations of workplace health, safety and welfare. This online course covers the whole range of possible causes for slips, trips and falls in the workplace, how design and planning can help to avoid them, and the procedures to deal with them should they happen.

Personalised for various types of workplace and work environments, this course is particularly valuable for managers and supervisors who are responsible for the overall health and safety compliance of a company.

We also offer Slips and Trips: Introduction | Intermediate

According to the HSE, slips and trips are the single most common cause of major injuries in the workplace, and are often also major factors in other injuries, such as falls from height and accidents involving machines. Therefore, training in this area is vital.

Our advanced and wide-ranging course covers the whole range of possible causes for slips and trips in the workplace, the consequences if inadequate care is taken, how design and planning can aim to avoid them, and the procedures to deal with them if they happen.

The course includes personalisation for various types of workplace and work environments in each section. If you are a manager or supervisor in any workplace and are responsible for the overall health and safety compliance, including planning and layout, you will find this course particularly valuable.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of what is covered:

• How slips and trips can occur
• Workplace injuries are more likely to be caused by a slip or a trip than anything else
• Types of contaminants and spills that can cause slips
• Designing physical and engineering solutions to avoid slips and trips
• How to choose and implement a cleaning regime and relevant cleaning techniques, materials, equipment, and barriers
• How to change your cleaning regime successfully
• The importance of training, supervision, consultation of cleaning personnel
• Choosing the right type of flooring for the workplace
• How to test various types of floors and surfaces and using the resulting data
• Appropriate footwear, selecting, testing, maintaining
• Definition and control of environmental factors, external and internal
• Human factors leading to slips and trips
• The importance of risk assessments, supervision, and worker involvement
• The importance of maintenance, housekeeping, and how a work system can ensure their regular completion
• Designing workplaces and especially entranceways, including mats, doorways, canopies, ramps and tactile areas
• Designing and using bathrooms, toilets and kitchens

The course includes short challenges throughout to test your knowledge, both already held and just learned. We have also included different types of media to ensure the course is engaging, such as videos, interactive scenarios and case studies to help relate the course to real-life.

Who should take this course

Our Slips and Trips: Advanced course is suitable for all workplace environments but has been tailored for managers and supervisors.

Workplaces where slips, trips and falls may occur include offices, warehouses, manufacturing plants/units, food preparation areas, restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, residential homes and much, much more.

Duration

Our online health and safety course will take approximately 5-6 hours to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. You can proceed as quickly or slowly as you like, and there is no limit on how long you can take to do the course and your progress will be automatically saved so you can log in and out as you please.

Entry requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Test and certificate

The end of course test consists of 30 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six times at no extra cost.

If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.