Health & Safety for Homeworkers

Health & Safety for Homeworkers Awareness

Section: Health & Safety

Cost- 34 Euro

Duration: 45 Minutes

Certificate: Valid for 3 years

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. 

Home working has risen from 4.7% in 2019 to 43.1% in April 2020 

Learning outcomes

• Understand the basics of staying safe as a homeworker
• Recognise and deal with potential hazards in the home
• Understand your responsibilities for your own personal safety

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 6 sections

1. Slips, Trips, and Falls
2. Your Workspace
3. DSE & Manual Handling
4. Fire & Electrical Safety
5. Safety Responsibilities & Procedures
6. Mental Health

About this course

This Health and Safety Training for Homeworkers programme has been designed to provide a good grounding in general health and safety.

It’s for anyone who works at home, whether it’s all of the time or some of the time.

It looks at important areas of safety, INCLUDING (and MUCH MORE):

• Avoiding slips, trips and falls
• Fire safety awareness
• Promoting good manual handling around the home
• Improving posture when using DSE Equipment
• Using electrical equipment safely
• Setting up a workstation with comfort and good posture in mind to avoid injuries
• Risk assessments

Other areas covered are home security, mental health, reporting accidents, personal safety, and the importance of maintaining a good work/life balance.

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.

Available in 40 languages