Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers
Everyone should have health and safety training, regardless of if they work in a fixed place of work or they work from home. This course is for people who work at home, some, or all of the time. It’s to keep you safe while you’re at work, when your workplace is your own home. Our course includes access to our Homeworking Assessment Tool.
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Home working has risen from 4.7% in 2019 to 43.1% in April 2020
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Learning outcomes
- Understand the basics of staying safe as a homeworker
- Recognise and deal with potential hazards in the home
- Understand your responsibilities for your own personal safety
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Course contents
This training course is broken down into 6 sections
- 1Slips, Trips, and Falls
- 2Your Workspace
- 3DSE & Manual Handling
- 4Fire & Electrical Safety
- 5Safety Responsibilities & Procedures
- 6Mental Health
Section 1
Slips, Trips, and Falls are some of the most common causes of accidents at work. The measures taken, clothes worn and activities might vary from home. In this section, we will look at the common causes of slips, trips and falls at home and what can be done to help prevent accidents in your home.
Section 2
There are things to consider that are incredibly important when you’re at home, but users might not think of in a shared workspace. In this section we'll help users think about creating boundaries to separate their home and work life, finding the right workspace and creating a productive workstation, and creating strategies to avoid, or address, loneliness and isolation.
Section 3
In our third section, we will consider the effects that manual handling and DSE can take on your body and the differences between working in a workplace to working at home when using DSE. Staff will learn about their posture, setting up their home workstation, lighting, glare and manual handling in the home to help significantly reduce the chances of any accidents occurring.
Section 4
Fire is a hazard that can quickly cause considerable harm. In this section, we'll look at the risk that fire can pose in the home. We'll look at things in employees' homes that are potential fuel sources, the importance of smoke alarms, evacuation in case of a fire and ensuring electrical equipment is being used correctly and not damaged.
Section 5
Employers are responsible for staff's health and safety when they work from home and whilst they carry out work-related activities. Employees also have a duty to follow their employer’s safety policies and procedures. In this fifth section, we'll look at what employers should consider for their homeworkers. This includes buddy systems, check-ins, preparing for emergencies, risk assessments, visitors to the home & more.
Section 6
In this final section, we will look at employees' mental health as they work from home. Users will learn about the importance of a healthy work/life balance and how to create boundaries between the two. The three boundaries we look at are physical, mental, and social. Staff will also learn about the risk of loneliness and isolation and what they can do to maintain connections and avoid loneliness.
About this course
This Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers programme has been designed to provide a good grounding in general health and safety.
It’s for anyone who works at home, whether it’s all of the time or some of the time.
It looks at important areas of safety, INCLUDING (and MUCH MORE):
- Avoiding slips, trips and falls
- Fire safety awareness
- Promoting good manual handling around the home
- Improving posture when using DSE Equipment
- Using electrical equipment safely
- Setting up a workstation with comfort and good posture in mind to avoid injuries
- Risk assessments (Homeworking Assessment Tool also included)
Other areas covered are home security, mental health, reporting accidents, personal safety, and the importance of maintaining a good work/life balance.
“Between 3 and 14 November 2021, around two-thirds (67%) of working adults in Great Britain reported travelling to work at some point in the past seven days. 3 in 10 working adults (30%) reported working from home at some point in the past seven days” (ONS). Our Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers makes sure that both employees and employers understand their responsibilities.
This eLearning course only provides awareness education. Face-to-face training would be needed in addition in order to complete all-round skills and knowledge to be able to carry this forward practically in your organisation.
Includes an online Homeworking Assessment
Our Homeworking Health & Safety Assessment Tool helps simplify Health & Safety for homeworkers and provides a complete online management tool for quick and easy issue resolution. With our training and assessment tool, working towards compliance is simple!
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Homeworker’s Health & Safety certificate
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Health and Safety Training for homeworkers course concludes with a 10 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does certificate include?
Your Health & Safety for Homeworkers Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, completion date, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
The course was informative
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Good but not enough quiz
The video instructions were clear, concise and best of all; short! Long training videos are the worst so I really appreciated this format. But the quiz felt lacklustre compared to content covered in the video. I would have liked a quiz of 20 questions rather than 10 (still including the questions in between some of the videos too).
It was very thorough and easy to watch
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
I would give it Zero if it was an option
I must say I feel well and truly patronised after carrying out this training, it’s a wonder we all manage to survive life without doing this course! Learning useful facts like; Heat rises, Electricity can kill you and closing the blinds will help stop light coming in through the window. The videos look more like something off an episode of ‘The Office’! It also had a number of errors, for example standing for long periods of time does not give one varicose veins, just as sitting, in and of itself, does not cause raised cholesterol and other metabolic problems.
Easy use, good AV – accessibility and diversity of learner considered
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Great to have training specifically for homeworking
This training considers all aspects of homeworking from having a designated work space to safety at home. It uses common sense approach to create good common practice. I've spent many years working from home and thought that I had considered everything but still learnt a lot. It's great to finally have training specifically for the needs of remote/hybrid working.
Repetitive, time-wasting, and poorly structured
The EHS training modules were extremely disappointing due to the excessive and unnecessary repetition across different modules. Despite spending nearly seven hours completing them, I found that around 50% of the content was duplicated in each module, making the experience feel redundant and frustrating. Rather than providing a streamlined and engaging learning journey, the modules were bloated with overlapping material, leading to wasted time and a lack of new insights. The structure clearly lacks efficiency and consideration for the learner’s time.
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
Although homeworkers do not travel to a fixed place of work, The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 must be applied to homeworkers to ensure their safety.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations or MHSWR requires employers to carry out risk assessments of a homeworkers environment, this should identify any risks and allow the employer to control them.
