E-Learning for On-Site Staff: Part 5

During these challenging times where face-to-face training is often discouraged, e-learning is a practical and enjoyable training solution for your site staff. 

Each week over the next couple of months, we will shine a spotlight on an e-learning course that your estate manager, concierge, cleaner or on-site handyman can take in their own time.

The courses, which are health and safety based, can be taken on their laptop, tablet or even smartphone. Once your member of on-site staff has absorbed the course material, they will be presented with an on-line assessment to prove that they have grasped the subject. If they don’t pass first time, they can take the course again and re-sit the assessment. You will have proof of their learning and assessment, and they will have a certificate to keep for their own records.

Key benefits of e-learning:

  • Courses can be taken when it’s convenient for the member of staff.

  • They are a highly efficient way to learn. E-learning courses are typically 45 minutes including the assessment.

  • They are very cost effective – from as little as £60 per course per member of staff.

  • Helps to discharge your obligations as the building manager.

  • Your clients’ health, safety and welfare obligations towards their employees are fulfilled.

Week 5: Lone Working

This 20-minute course covers the potential hazards that relate specifically to lone workers and the appropriate action that should be taken to reduce the risks. It introduces the concept of lone working – i.e. on-site staff who work by themselves, without colleagues or direct supervision, and how the individual member of staff needs to be even more aware than staff who working in teams on site.

The lone working course is particularly useful for line management too, for their own awareness of the risks faced by their valued site-based colleagues.

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