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Safety Hazards eLearning
Online workplace hazard awareness training: the categories of hazard, how to spot them on a walk round, and why reporting is the part that actually prevents injuries.
Who it is for
Who this safety hazards course is for
Hazard spotting is a skill, not an instinct. People walk past the same hazard every day until it hurts someone. This course gives staff a structure for looking, and a reason to say something.
- All staff, as part of induction or refresher training
- Supervisors carrying out workplace inspections
- Health and safety representatives
- New starters and young workers
- Agency and temporary staff
- Anyone contributing to a risk assessment
Course content
What the safety hazards course covers
Six short modules covering the categories of hazard, how to look systematically, and what happens after a report.
Hazard and risk
The difference, and why the two words are not interchangeable.
Physical hazards
Slips, trips, falls, machinery, vehicles, noise and vibration.
Chemical and biological hazards
Substances, dusts, fumes and biological agents in ordinary workplaces.
Ergonomic and psychosocial hazards
Manual handling, workstation design, workload, stress and fatigue.
Spotting hazards systematically
Walking the job, looking up and down, and noticing what has changed.
Reporting and acting
Making a report that gets acted on, and closing the loop with the person who raised it.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Distinguish a hazard from a risk
- Recognise the main categories of workplace hazard
- Carry out a systematic look round rather than a glance
- Judge which hazards need reporting immediately
- Write a hazard report that leads to action
- Explain why near-misses are worth reporting
Your legal duty
The law behind safety hazards training
Hazard identification is the first step of risk assessment, which the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to carry out. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 also places a duty on employees to take reasonable care and to co-operate with their employer, which includes reporting what they find.
There is no regulation requiring hazard spotting training by name. It is required in practice because a risk assessment can only be as good as the hazard identification behind it.
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 7
- No regulation names hazard awareness training; it underpins risk assessment
- RIDDOR applies to reporting certain incidents to the enforcing authority
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
Safety Hazards training for a team
Hazard reporting improves when everyone has the same categories in their head and knows the report goes somewhere.
- 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
Hazard spotting is step one of risk assessment; the full method has its own course. See the Risk Assessment course →
Safety Hazards eLearning: common questions
A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm. Risk is the likelihood of that harm happening and how serious it would be. The course keeps the two separate throughout.
Not by name. It underpins risk assessment, which is a legal requirement, and it supports the employee's duty to take reasonable care and co-operate.
Yes. The course is explicit that the threshold for reporting is a concern, not certainty, and that a culture where people wait to be sure is a culture where hazards persist.
Usually supervisors and safety representatives, but everyone contributes by reporting. The course covers how to look systematically rather than relying on a glance.
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.
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