35.2 million working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 40m

Learning outcomes

  • Know how to reduce the risks of common workshop hazards
  • Know the responsibilities that you and your employer share
  • Understand the Hierarchy of Hazard Control

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

  1. 1
    Workshop Hazards
  2. 2
    Safe Workshop
  3. 3
    Workshop Rules

About this course

This programme is for anyone who works in a workshop.

It’s all about working safely, looking at why accidents happen and how they can be prevented.

General workshop safety training is vital to ensuring that your staff follow best practices and remain safe in the workshop. No two workshops are the same, each with different hazards and machinery, this programme concentrates on general safety awareness, safe working habits and safe operating procedures.

In our General Workshop Safety Training programme, we consider specific hazards that may be found in a workshop, such as dangerous equipment and hazardous substances. As not all hazards are relevant to everyone, these are optional – the information is provided as a pointer to further training that may be needed. For each type of hazard, it explains who needs to know about that particular type of hazard and what the dangers are.

If you work in a workshop you may also be interested in our PPE Training and/or our Abrasive Wheel Safety Training.

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.

The importance of General Workshop Safety Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Our most popular languages

Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

General Workshop Safety certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This General Workshop Safety Training course concludes with a 15 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 my certificate include?

Your Workshop Safety 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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will do it again if needs be

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I lean a lot , thank you for refreshing my mind

useful training

good training for general workshop use

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The course seemed overall informative and well put together. However, as my volunteering activities at South West Lakes Trust are very specific (I monitor ecological projects using fixed point photography), none of the courses I have been assigned are relevant to me. Therefore only 4 stars as it feels like a waste of my time.

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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 Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 states that employers must (See page 6):

– Assess risks to the health and safety of their employees and non-employees arising in, or from, the workshop, and review them when there is a significant change. Records of significant findings of the assessment must be kept where there are five or more employees.

– Plan, organise, control, monitor and review the preventative and protective measures taken as a result of the assessment.

– Provide health surveillance where necessary, for example, to help control health risks from metalworking fluids.

– Appoint any competent person(s) needed to help them comply with legal obligations, for example, when having lifting equipment thoroughly examined.

– Set out what should be done in case of serious and imminent danger in the workshop, such as the spillage of a large amount of degreasing solvent.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

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