
Healthy Working
There are risks to your physical and mental health and wellbeing wherever you work. But by taking some simple precautions, you can reduce these risks and their consequences.Our Health & Wellbeing Training Course explains company procedures to reduce risk, helping employees learn how to protect their health and wellbeing at work.
For those in leadership, we have a complementary Managing Safely Course.
- 20 Minutes
- All staff

Learning objectives
- Identify the consequences of failing to look after your health and wellbeing
- Maintain an appropriate posture to prevent upper limb disorders and back pain
- Take appropriate action to promote wellbeing when using display screen equipment
- Safely lift and carry goods manually at work
- Recognise signs of work-related stress and take action to prevent it
- Observe the UK Chief Medical Officers' Alcohol Guidelines ensure fitness for work
What can you expect your employees to learn?
Health risks at work
In the news...
- You decide: Recognising the consequences
Musculoskeletal & upper limb disorders
- Posture
- You make the call: Are these people at higher risk?
- There's nothing wrong with my posture!
- Exercise: Posture
- Recommended posture
- Exercise: What would you recommend?
What if you like to lean?
Keyboard & mouse
- The mouse position
- What if?
- Padded wrist rests
- Can you solve keyboard & mouse issues with tablets?
- Precautions with tablets
Monitors: Too close for comfort?
- Finding it difficult to read small type?
- Positioning your monitor correctly
- Look after your eyesight
- Are you straining your eyes?
Break time!
- Stretches that could help you
- Exercise: How does your workspace measure up?
Safer lifting & carrying
- Exercise: Safer lifting
- What's the safest way to lift a heavy object?
Work-related stress & mental wellbeing
- Stressed - who, me?
- You make the call: Recognising signs of stress
- Dealing with stress
- Causes of stress
Alcohol abuse
- You make the call: Is it within safe limits?
- How many pints a week?
You decide: What's good practice
Summary
Affirmation
Assessment
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Your questions, answered
Health & Safety
Common FAQs
How can I log and track work-related injuries, accidents and dangerous occurrences?
How can I ensure my employees’ workstation setups comply with health and safety regulations?
How can I measure and improve employee wellbeing in relation to health and safety?
Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?
What other tools are needed beyond training?
Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?
- You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
- For major legislative changes, we:
- Will send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
- Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
- Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance
Can you translate our content into other languages?
How can I give employees a secure way to record suspicious activity so we can act quickly?
Our Suspicious Activity Register allows staff to log concerns or irregularities they observe, helping you detect potential issues early. The secure register can be reviewed by compliance teams, enabling prompt investigation and action.
What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?
Features |
Supported file types and details |
File Exchange |
File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB |
SCORM files |
Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB |
xAPI file |
Max file size: 2GB |
Videos |
File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help |
Images |
File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB |
CPD evidence |
File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB |
Policy documents |
PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB |
Offline activities evidence |
File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB |
Client logo files |
File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG |
Registers |
PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, POT, PPA, PPS, JPG, JPEG, PJEPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, MP4, MOV, WMV, CPTX, CP, TXT, ZIP and MSG files |
Declarations |
JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files |