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Office Safety eLearning
Online office safety training: because most office injuries are slips, trips, manual handling and badly set up desks, and almost nobody gets told about any of them.
Who it is for
Who this office safety course is for
Offices feel safe, which is exactly why office hazards go unreported. Trailing cables, overloaded shelving, propped fire doors and a chair nobody has adjusted in three years all sit in plain sight.
- Office and administrative staff
- Reception and front-of-house teams
- Hybrid workers splitting time between home and office
- Office managers and facilities staff
- New starters, as part of induction
- Anyone responsible for office risk assessments
Course content
What the office safety course covers
Five short lessons covering office hazards, workstations and DSE, housekeeping, storage and electrics, fire and evacuation, and reporting and wellbeing, then a 12-question assessment.
Office hazards
What actually injures office workers, and the law that covers the office.
Workstations and DSE
Setting up a workstation, laptops, and spotting set-up faults.
Housekeeping, storage and electrical safety
Walkways, cables, storage at height, heavy files, and user checks on plugs and leads.
Fire and evacuation
Preventing fires in the office, and what to do when the alarm sounds.
Reporting and wellbeing
Reporting accidents and near misses, and looking after your wellbeing at work.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise what actually injures office workers
- Set up a workstation to reduce strain
- Keep housekeeping, storage and electrical equipment safe
- Follow the fire and evacuation procedure
- Report accidents and near misses, and look after your wellbeing
Your legal duty
The law behind office safety training
Offices are covered by the same duties as any other workplace. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 govern floors, traffic routes, lighting, temperature, ventilation, welfare facilities and safe storage. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require the risks to be assessed.
Display screen work brings the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 into play as well. That's why DSE is a section of this course and a full course in its own right.
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 - fire safety in England and Wales
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Anyone who is a DSE user needs the full display screen equipment course as well.
For employers
Office Safety training for a team
Office safety is a good induction course for a whole team, because low-risk environments are where reporting habits are weakest.
- 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 eLearning: common questions
Yes. Offices are workplaces, and the same duties apply. Slips, trips and manual handling injuries happen in offices constantly, and the reporting culture is usually weaker than on a site.
No. It covers workstation setup at awareness level. Anyone who is a DSE user under the 1992 Regulations needs the full DSE course and a self-assessment.
This course covers the office side. Home working has its own risks and its own course, and the DSE duties follow the user home.
Because a fire door only works closed. It is one of the most common and most dangerous pieces of office housekeeping, and the course explains exactly why.
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.
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