Awareness of Health and Safety at Work

After completing this health and safety in the workplace course, you will be able to download and print a Virtual College health and safety awareness certificate for your records. This health and safety in the workplace course has been certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

See more about our Health and Safety courses here as well as our packages.

Health and safety is something that everyone is aware of and impacted by at work. If you’re an employer and/or a business owner, business health and safety laws will influence many of the decisions you make, which in turn can impact the success of your organisation.

The importance of health and safety in the workplace is linked to a wide range of factors, so ensuring that your business is safety compliant should be a priority. Following guidance and complying with laws should be more than just a box-ticking exercise - it’s something that you should always be striving to do to keep employees and customers safe.

See this article where we look at the different factors which contribute to health and safety being a major consideration for employers and employees.

Awareness of Health and Safety at Work is designed to teach both employees and employers why health and safety in the workplace is so important in relation to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

By taking this e-learning health and safety awareness course, you'll meet your legal obligations, minimise the risk of bad publicity or lawsuits for your company, gain awareness of health and safety issues and be able to demonstrate your understanding of health and safety laws.

Learn more about the importance of health and safety by clicking here.

To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.

Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.

Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.

If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.

The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.

If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.