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Course contents
This training course is broken down into 6 sections
- 1 Slips, Trips, and Falls
- 2 Your Workspace
- 3 DSE & Manual Handling
- 4 Fire & Electrical Safety
- 5 Safety Responsibilities & Procedures
- 6 Mental Health
About this course
This Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers programme has been designed to provide a good grounding in general health and safety.
It's for anyone who works at home, whether it's all of the time or some of the time.
It looks at important areas of safety, INCLUDING (and MUCH MORE):
- Avoiding slips, trips and falls
- Fire safety awareness
- Promoting good manual handling around the home
- Improving posture when using DSE Equipment
- Using electrical equipment safely
- Setting up a workstation with comfort and good posture in mind to avoid injuries
- Risk assessments (Homeworking Assessment Tool also included)
Other areas covered are home security, mental health, reporting accidents, personal safety, and the importance of maintaining a good work/life balance.
"Between 3 and 14 November 2021, around two-thirds (67%) of working adults in Great Britain reported travelling to work at some point in the past seven days. 3 in 10 working adults (30%) reported working from home at some point in the past seven days" (ONS). Our Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers makes sure that both employees and employers understand their responsibilities.
This eLearning course only provides awareness education. Face-to-face training would be needed in addition in order to complete all-round skills and knowledge to be able to carry this forward practically in your organisation.
Includes an online Homeworking Assessment
Our Homeworking Health & Safety Assessment Tool helps simplify Health & Safety for homeworkers and provides a complete online management tool for quick and easy issue resolution. With our training and assessment tool, working towards compliance is simple!
Explore our Homeworking Assessment ToolThe importance of Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers
It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Homeworker's Health & Safety 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 for Homeworkers course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions 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 and Safety Training for Homeworkers 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.
2,173 real user reviews
Thorough but a bit dry and long
I appreciated the efforts to keep the subject matter engaging but ultimately much of this information was common sense and it was hard to stay engaged at times. I wonder if the course could not have been shorter?
the training is clear and to the point
good course, easy to follow and complete
Points out the obvious not obvious
Enjoyed this course, I have worked from home for years and you get complacent - some things I really need to upgrade and could be a reason I have been spending a fortune on Chiropractors - new chair and workstation are definitely being reported today!
Too much detail
A lot of repetitive detail from the DSE training.
Too long and not engaging
It's hard to stay engaged when it's so long, which means you switch off and it becomes less valuable.
good but overly long.
good and useful refresh of mostly common sense topics. could be more concise.
Warning about downloading form in wrong
Warning that you need to download the assessment and fill out rather than fill out in window comes at the end after the test. This is too late as the the assessment comes up at the end of the slides so no warning not to fill out in window and you can't click next until you say you have read that. You then do the test and then get the message saying you just wasted your time filling out the form and need to download and do it again.
Very informative and practical
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Although homeworkers do not travel to a fixed place of work, The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 must be applied to homeworkers to ensure their safety.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations or MHSWR requires employers to carry out risk assessments of a homeworkers environment, this should identify any risks and allow the employer to control them.
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