Health & Safety Essentials
Health & Safety Essentials

Over 30 million working days are lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury each year

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 45m

Learning outcomes

  • Gain a better understanding of everyone's health and safety responsibilities
  • Be able to identify the different types of safety signs and what they mean
  • Gain a better understanding of the types of risks and hazards in a workplace and learn how you can prevent accidents and injuries

Training Modules

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 2 sections

  1. 1
    The Hazards
  2. 2
    Health and safety responsibilities

Health and Safety Essentials training explained

Everyone in your workplace is legally required to have Health and Safety Training, and this module provides the perfect introduction to Health and Safety – whether as an induction tool, refresher, or for people changing roles within your organisation.

This IOSH & RoSPA Approved Health and Safety Training helps build knowledge and understanding around essential Health and Safety aspects in the workplace.

Our Health and Safety Essentials training covers:

  • How to recognise and avoid hazards and risks at work
  • Minimising illness and absenteeism
  • Tips on how to reduce workplace accidents
  • The roles and responsibilities of employers and employees
  • Legal requirements and compliance with legislation
  • An overview of different safety signs in the workplace and what they mean
  • How to develop stringent emergency procedures
  • Fire awareness for all staff
  • What to do if somebody slips or falls at work?
  • Best practices for DSE measures.
  • Manual handling techniques.
  • COSHH procedures.
  • Electrical safety measures

Our Health & Safety training can be completed in one go or it can be done in bite-size chunks – whatever suits you. Our online system is designed so that you cna pick up exactly where you left off, offering a convenient delivery to complete all modules at a time and place that suits you.

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Available in 40 languages

All inclusive

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Our most popular languages

Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

Health & Safety Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Health and Safety Training – Basics & Essentials course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Health & Safety Essentials Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

14,572 real user reviews

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Very easy to follow

I was very pleased to be able to do the course at my convenience.

A good basic educational tool but think it could provide links to more in-depth information on PPE, particularly masks FPP numbers and hearing protection for different noise levels.

This user gave this course a rating of 4/5 stars

Accurate and informative

Refreshed my knowledge on actions and responsibilities

Great

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Good

Very good course

Very useful and well presented.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Good

Actually, it was really helpful to me. Because health and safety are the first things we need to consider whatever we do before. I learned a lot. I had a language problem. But I managed it.

good course

found this very useful

Why is this Health & Safety training important?

Health and Safety Training helps with compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

iHasco’s Health and Safety Essentials programme is a great starting point for workplace health and safety training, covering the basic knowledge required to help prevent some of the most common accidents and illnesses in the workplace. It covers the basic requirements of a range of different Health and Safety Regulations, including:

Every employer must ensure that their employees are provided with adequate Health and Safety training.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, Chapter 13 (2)

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