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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
Six short modules on the hazards of a school office, from workstation setup to managing visitors at reception.
School office hazards
Slips, trips, storage, electrical and handling risks in an admin area.
Workstations
Screen, chair and desk setup, and where the DSE self-assessment fits.
Storage and housekeeping
Filing, deliveries, stationery stores and the boxes that never get put away.
Fire and evacuation from the office
Escape routes, fire doors and the office's role in evacuation.
Reception and visitors
Managing visitors, signing in, and safety at a busy front desk.
Reporting
Accidents, near-misses and unsafe conditions in the office
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise the hazards in a school office
- Set up a workstation to reduce strain
- Keep storage and walkways safe as deliveries arrive
- Follow evacuation arrangements from an office area
- Manage visitors safely at reception
- 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
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
School staff who are DSE users need the workstation assessment course too. See DSE Assessment in Education →
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 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
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.