E-Learning for On-Site Staff: Part 6

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 6: Working at height

This course is available to on-site staff who would benefit from knowledge on safe procedures when working at height. The course covers the requirements to ensure that work at height can be performed in accordance with the current legal requirements.

Work at height means work in any place where, if there were no precautions in place, a person could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury.

The definition of working at height includes any position where a person or persons could fall and hurt themselves. This has far-reaching consequences, as the 30-minute course explores.