Course Overview

Having completed this course, you will be able to make your workplace safer by:

• identifying slip and trip risks, and alerting your employer and/or colleagues, where appropriate
• initiating action to prevent slips, trips and falls

The Health and Safety Executive states that over one third of all major injuries reported to them each year is the result of a trip leading to a fall. Slips and trips are the most common cause of non-fatal major injuries in both the manufacturing and service industries, and account for over half of all reported injuries to members of the public on business premises. These statistics provide powerful proof of the dangers presented by trips and falls and this course will enable you to protect yourself, colleagues and visitors in your workplace.

The cost of slips, trips and falls to employers is around £300,000,000 every year in lost production and associated costs. This is a massive expense to industry and commerce that could be better spent increasing profits, improving staff benefits and boosting the economy. This course is a crucial first step in making the workplace safer, and creating accident-related cost-savings for your organisation.

The course is divided into 6 sections covering the following areas:

• why slips, trips and falls are an issue for everyone
• what the law says
• how slips, trips and falls happen
• preventing slips, trips and falls: good housekeeping; floor quality; footwear; taking care of yourself
• safety precautions
• ear plugs and defenders

How It Works

The information below is specific to this particular course. If you would like a more general guide to how our purchasing and learning works please visit the Four Easy Steps page which should tell you all you need to know.

Alternatively; if you have a specific question or concern why not contact us directly ?

What

This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post. If you wish you may print out any page of the training material, and may also print the notes you took during the training.

You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.

How

The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.

The lesson consist of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in the material.

Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSED and RESUMED at any stage. When all lessons in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course

When

This course is delivered fully online allowing you to learn at your own pace, however an average duration would be 4.5 hours.