Falls from height are still the leading cause of death in UK workplaces

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 35m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand and show your commitment to the Work at Height Regulations 2005
  • Understand the risks associated with working at height and how you can prevent accidents from happening
  • Understand the legal responsibilities that are placed on you and your employer

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

  1. 1
    Working at Height
  2. 2
    The Risks
  3. 3
    Choosing Equipment

About this course

In the UK, falls from height account for over a quarter of all workplace fatalities, making it the leading cause of death at work. Add to this 43,000 non-fatal accidental injuries and you begin to get an idea of just how dangerous working at height can be.

However, despite being both common and dangerous, falls from height are also completely avoidable. All it takes is a little extra care, planning, and attention to detail and falls from height can be almost entirely prevented; whilst the effects of those that do still occur can be dramatically reduced.

At its core, this Working at Height Training programme takes the requirements of the Working at Height Regulations 2005 and the best-practice suggestions of the accompanying HSE guidance document and creates a course which is simple and concise yet comprehensive, ensuring that everyone understands their responsibilities and how to stay safe.

The course breaks the topic of working at height down into three easy-to-follow sections; the legal responsibilities of both employers and employees; the dangers associated with work at height and how to stay safe; and an in-depth look at the kinds of equipment which might be used, their benefits, and how to manage risks working at height poses.

Working in confined spaces? You may also be interested in our Working in Confined Spaces training course, as well as our Ladder Safety Training.

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The importance of Working at Height 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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Working at Height Training certificate

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

This Working at Height Training course concludes with a 20 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 Working at Height Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, 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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Why is this Working at Height 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 Work at Height Regulations 2005

For both employees and those that are self-employed, The Work at Height Regulations 2005 require that:

  • All work at height is properly planned and organised.
  • All work at height takes account of weather conditions that could endanger health and safety.
  • Those involved in work at height are trained and competent
  • The place where work at height is done is safe
  • Equipment used when working at height is appropriately inspected
  • The risks from fragile surfaces are properly controlled
  • The risks from falling objects are properly controlled

Where work is carried out at height, every employer shall take suitable and sufficient measures to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, any person falling a distance liable to cause personal injury

The Work at Height Regulations 2005, Section 6 (3)

When work is to be done at height risks must be assessed. There are duties placed on employers, the self-employed and on any person who controls the work of others; and there are also duties placed on employees and on people working under someone else’s control.

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