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Office Safety in Education eLearning
Online office safety training for school offices: reception, admin and finance areas, where visitors arrive, deliveries land and nobody thinks of it as a workplace hazard.
Who it is for
Who this office safety in education course is for
School offices are busier than most: reception handling visitors and parents, deliveries arriving, storage in every corner, and staff at screens all day. They are also the least likely part of a school to be risk assessed.
- School office and admin staff
- Reception and front-of-house teams
- School business managers and finance staff
- Attendance and pastoral office staff
- Anyone handling deliveries in a school
- Senior leaders responsible for the office area
Course content
What the office safety in education course covers
Four short lessons covering school office hazards and workstations, storage and deliveries, evacuation and visitors, and reporting, then a 12-question assessment.
School office hazards and workstations
The common hazards in a school office, electrical safety, and workstation set-up in brief.
Storage, housekeeping and deliveries
Keeping walkways clear, storing safely, reaching high shelves, and handling deliveries that land in reception.
Evacuation, reception and visitors
The office's role in a fire evacuation, signing visitors in, and handling difficult visitors.
Reporting
Reporting accidents, near misses and hazards, and the office's role in accident records.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise school office hazards and set up a workstation to reduce strain
- Keep storage, walkways and deliveries safe
- Carry out the office's role in an evacuation and manage visitors safely
- Report accidents and unsafe conditions
Your legal duty
The law behind office safety in education training
School offices are workplaces like any other. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 cover floors, routes, lighting, temperature, ventilation, welfare facilities and safe storage, and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require risk assessment.
Display screen work brings the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 into play. That matters in a school office where staff are often at a screen for most of the day.
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - section 3 covers visitors
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
School staff who are DSE users need the workstation assessment course too.
For employers
Office Safety in Education training for a team
School office teams are small and busy, and rarely included in whole-school safety training. This course is written for them specifically.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Office Safety in Education eLearning: common questions
Yes. A school office is a workplace and the duty to assess applies, even though it feels lower risk than a technology workshop.
At awareness level. School office staff who are DSE users under the 1992 Regulations need the workstation assessment course and a self-assessment.
It covers reception safety and visitor management. Aggression and de-escalation are covered more fully by the Conflict Management course.
Yes. The hazards of an admin office are the same whether it sits in a school or a trust central office.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.