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Slips, Trips and Falls eLearning
Online slips, trips and falls training: the single most common cause of major injury at work, and the one almost everybody assumes is somebody else's fault.
Who it is for
Who this slips, trips and falls course is for
Slips and trips cause more major injuries at work than anything else, in every sector. They are also the hazard people walk past most often, because a trailing cable or a wet floor looks ordinary until someone goes down on it.
- All staff, as part of induction or refresher training
- Cleaning, catering and housekeeping teams
- Warehouse, retail and hospitality staff
- Care, education and healthcare workers
- Facilities and maintenance teams
- Supervisors responsible for housekeeping standards
Course content
What the slips, trips and falls course covers
Five short lessons covering why slips and trips matter, how slips and trips happen, cleaning and housekeeping that remove the risk, and reporting, then a 12-question assessment.
Why slips and trips matter
The scale of slip and trip injuries at work, the harm they cause, and why they are so often ignored.
How slips happen
Contamination, floor surfaces, footwear and how people move, and how they combine to cause a slip.
How trips happen
Obstructions, trailing cables, changes of level, damaged flooring and poor lighting, and how to deal with them.
Cleaning and housekeeping
How cleaning can cause slips, how to clean safely, dealing with spills, and housekeeping that removes hazards for good.
Reporting, and your employer's duty
What the law requires of floors and traffic routes, and how reporting hazards and near misses prevents falls.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Explain why slips and trips matter and the injuries they cause
- Recognise the conditions that make a slip likely, including footwear
- Recognise the conditions that make a trip likely
- Clean floors and keep areas tidy in a way that does not create a hazard
- Report a hazard or a near miss, and explain your employer's duty for floors and routes
Your legal duty
The law behind slips, trips and falls training
There is no regulation called the slips and trips regulations. The duties sit in the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, which require floors and traffic routes to be suitable, in good condition and free from obstructions, and to be kept free from anything that may cause a person to slip, trip or fall.
On top of that sits the general duty to assess risk. Because slips and trips are so ordinary, they are frequently missed out of risk assessments altogether. That is exactly why they remain the leading cause of major injury.
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 - floors and traffic routes
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 3
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Where your own procedures, equipment and reporting lines need to be in the training, we can build that version for you.
For employers
Slips, Trips and Falls training for a team
Slips and trips are a housekeeping culture problem. Training everybody, not only the cleaners, is what changes what people walk past.
- 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
Slips, Trips and Falls eLearning: common questions
Not by that name. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 require floors and traffic routes to be safe and free from obstruction, and the general duty to provide information and training applies to that risk like any other.
Everyone's. The employer must provide safe floors and routes; employees must take reasonable care and not create hazards. The course is explicit that walking past a spill is a decision.
No. Falls from height are covered by the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and have their own course. This is same-level slips, trips and falls.
It depends on the floor, the contamination and the task, and the course explains how to judge it. Where footwear is needed as PPE, the employer provides it free of charge.
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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