Working Safely
Awareness of health and safety procedures can prevent injuries and save lives. Working safely means ensuring employees protect the health, safety and welfare of themselves and others.
Our Working Safely Training Course will help your employees understand and manage common hazards at work. It also explains how employees can maintain their health, safety and welfare at work.
We also have a companion course aimed at those in leadership entitled Managing Safely.
- 45 Minutes
- All staff
- Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.

Learning objectives
- Identify common hazards and the risks associated with them
- Recognise safety signs used for indicating hazards and control measures
- Manage common office hazards
- Identify types of emergency and first-aid interventions, and how to access them
- Appreciate their responsibility for monitoring and reporting
- Take appropriate action to maintain health, safety and welfare at work
What can you expect your employees to learn?
Introduction
What is Working Safely?
- Safety First
- Who is responsible?
- Legal responsibility
- Employee responsibility
Hazards
- Types of hazards
- What is risk?
- You make the call: Hazard or risk?
Risk Control Measures
- Exercise: Risk control measures
Safety Signs
- Exercise: Safety signs
Fire Safety
- Fire safety regulation requirements
- The fire triangle
- Preventive measures
- Fire alarm
- If you hear a fire alarm...
- If you are trapped...
- Exercise: Fire extinguisher
Slips, Trips & Falls
- Hazards
- Precautions for avoiding slips, trips and falls
- You make the call: Fix, avoid or report?
Electricity
- Dos and don'ts of working with electrical appliances
- Exercise: What can you do yourself?
First Aid
- In the event of an injury
Earthquakes
- Suspect Packages
- Suspect letter or package indicators
Monitoring & Reporting
- Exercise: Monitoring
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 |