Health & Safety 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.

Learning outcome:

1. Understand both employer and employee responsibilities when it comes to employees working at home
2. Recognize the possible risks when working at home including manual handling, DSE, slips trips and falls and fire hazards
3. Learn how to report an accident when working from home and make an emergency call

Course content:

• Responsibilities and Legal Requirements
• Hazards and Risks
• Working at Home
• Safety and Emergency Procedures

Available Language: 29 Languages

Importance of training:

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.

Certificate (download and print):

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 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 Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers 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 recognized authorities.