Health and Safety Courses

Employers must ensure the health, safety and well-being of their workers. Our extensive library of off-the-shelf health and safety courses makes it easy to fulfil your legal and moral duties to protect and train your workforce.

Why Choose Human Focus?

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Over 28,000 organisations train their workforces with Human Focus

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Over 6.5 million training sessions delivered

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Immediately downloadable course certificates

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Access courses anytime, anywhere

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More affordable than traditional classroom training

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Excellent customer support

Stay Up to Date with Your Health and Safety Certifications

Choose from our most in-demand workplace health and safety training courses to get the accreditations you need. From the construction sector to logistics and distribution, you’ll find the right health and safety courses to coach your staff, demonstrate compliance and help grow your business.

Why Health and Safety is Critical

Individual pain and suffering aren’t the only consequences of work-related accidents or ill health. Employers also have to shoulder the financial burden of sickness-related absence, compensation, damaged equipment and fines for health and safety breaches.

The indirect costs are harder to quantify. These costs include delays in production, loss of skills, forced downtime due to accident investigations and increased insurance premiums. Company reputation is also at risk. Failures in health and safety can cause investors, suppliers and customers to turn away.

If you’re an employer, you have a moral, financial and legal duty to protect your staff. It’s essential to provide occupational health and safety courses online or by other means. Failure to do so can have severe consequences for you, your employees and your organisation.

Are You Aware of Your Responsibilities?

Employers in the UK are required by law to protect the health, safety and welfare of their workforce and anyone else their work operations might impact.

The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 detail the legal obligations employers have towards their staff.

These obligations include:

  • Identifying foreseeable hazards through risk assessments
  • Ensuring any identified hazards are controlled to a reasonably practicable level
  • Providing workers with the knowledge, resources and training – such as health and safety awareness courses online – to perform their jobs safely
  • Ensuring that the tools, equipment and machinery used at work are suitable, adequately maintained and safe to use
  • Supplying essential personal protective equipment (PPE) and ensuring it’s used correctly
  • Communicating health and safety issues to the workforce & their safety representatives
  • Appointing competent individuals to assist in managing health & safety
  • Recording accidents and near-misses and using this information to improve health and safety performance

Employers unable to fulfil these duties face heavy fines or prosecution. To ensure compliance, employers must fully understand their responsibilities, implement efficient health and safety management systems and provide health and safety training for employees.

Why Choose Health and Safety Training Courses with Human Focus?

The Human Focus catalogue of online health and safety courses offers guidance for both general and specific work areas.

Online training offers benefits such as:

Flexibility to learn anytime & in bite-size sessions
Discounts on volume purchases
Cost reductions compared to in-person training
Excellent trainee support
Ensures compliance with health and safety legislation
Reduces accident rates and prevents potential injuries
Improves productivity and motivates workers

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. All Human Focus health and safety courses are accredited, assured or certified by notable bodies such as IIRSM, RoSPA, IOSH and CPD.

Yes. It’s essential to provide employees with relevant health and safety training courses in the UK to ensure compliance with regulations and promote workplace safety.

The certification for our health and safety courses generally lasts up to three years. After that, it’s necessary to retake the training to refresh your knowledge and renew your certification.

For most courses, you earn an accredited health and safety training certificate by completing the training course and passing the assessment.

Health and safety training courses are designed for employees and managers to improve their understanding and appreciation of workplace health and safety. Employees will be better equipped to protect themselves and others while working and reduce the risks of accidents and legal liabilities.

Human Focus offers a wide range of health and safety training courses covering diverse topics such as manual handling, safe display screen use, personal protective equipment, near-miss reporting, electrical safety, construction safety and more.

Occupational health and safety courses educate employees on workplace hazards, safety regulations and safe working practices that prevent accidents and injuries.

The level of health and safety training course you need depends on your role, industry and workplace hazards. Entry-level positions in the workplace require basic health and safety training, while senior roles or high-risk industries require specialist training. It’s important to assess your job role and consult relevant regulations or guidelines to ensure compliance with training requirements.

Becoming a Health and Safety Officer requires relevant qualifications in occupational health or a related field and adequate training. Professional certifications, practical experience and strong communication skills can also greatly enhance your prospects in this role.

Health and safety online courses give you easy access to training and certification. This accessibility enables you to deliver training across your organisation and lets workers fit training around their current duties. The Human Focus system also makes it easier to manage training records, letting you track and check progress online.

Online courses also offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional in-person training as they eliminate the overheads inherent to classroom-based courses.

Absolutely. You can explore the e-learning platform, get course previews and see how easy online training can be. Speak to one of our sales team or click here to arrange your free trial of our health and safety training courses.