Working at Height Awareness
About Working at Height Awareness
If your job role involves you working at height and you would like to know the risks and legal implications involved when working at height, then this course is the one for you. The training will cover all heights, from step ladders to safety harnesses.
Course Length
Our Working at Height Awareness training course is 3 hours long and completed in a half-day. Our courses are structured to allow breaks for learners to eat and rest.
Certificate Validity
The Working at Height Awareness training certificate lasts 12 months (1 year). Before expiry, you’ll need to re-enrol to receive a new certificate.
Delivery
Our most popular form of training is held in-house, where we send a trainer out to your premises for a face-to-face session (for groups of up to 12). We also run the Working at Height Awareness training course online. Ask about our webinar sessions.
Topics Covered
Please see our course outline here. During this Working at Height Awareness training course, you will learn to understand the relevant legislation for both employees and employers, how to reduce risks and implement control measures, ladders and stepladders, and more…
Cost/Pricing
Pricing can vary depending on location, dates, group size (where applicable), and more factors. For a free email quotation, please contact our advisors directly on 0800 781 2041 or leave an enquiry.
How do you get Certified?
This course is available via an in-house group course for up to 12 delegates. Choose for the course to be delivered either face to face or by a blended learning option, at a time and place convenient to you. Alternatively, learn through one of our scheduled courses at centres located across the UK. Upon completion of this course, a certificate will be awarded.
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Outline Working at Height Awareness
- Introduction and explanation.
- The relevant legislation for both employees and employers.
- Reducing risk and implementing control measures.
- Ladders and stepladders.
- Edge protection.
- Scaffolding safety.
- Accessing towers and work platforms.
- Fall restraint and arrest.
- Risk assessment of site, task, equipment and personnel.
- Pre-use checks and inspections.
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Working at Height Awareness FAQs
What is a ‘working at height awareness’ training course?
A Working at Height training course helps candidates comply with the Work at Height Regulations 2005 by providing employers and employees with the necessary information needed to be able to deal with working at height risks and control measures successfully.
Who should take this course?
This course is a must for anyone who works at height in any place – including a place at or below ground level – where they are required to undertake training to prove that they are competent and safe in their work.
How is the course relevant to people working at or below ground level?
Working at height isn’t just relevant to people working at great heights such as window cleaners or roofing contractors. It also applies to anyone that could accidentally fall due to tasks associated with their role. This includes those involved in shelf stacking, machine maintenance, sign erectors, excavations, and unloading/loading vehicles.
Is this a mandatory course?
Regulation 5 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 states that employers must ensure all employees engaged in any work at height activity must be competent to do so. Falls from height are one of the most common causes of injury at work. Employers must ensure staff and members of the public are protected when conducting any work at height.
Working at Height Awareness FAQs
What is a 'working at height awareness' training course?
A Working at Height training course helps candidates comply with the Work at Height Regulations 2005 by providing employers and employees with the necessary information needed to be able to deal with working at height risks and control measures successfully.
Who should take this course?
This course is a must for anyone who works at height in any place - including a place at or below ground level - where they are required to undertake training to prove that they are competent and safe in their work.
How is the course relevant to people working at or below ground level?
Working at height isn't just relevant to people working at great heights such as window cleaners or roofing contractors. It also applies to anyone that could accidentally fall due to tasks associated with their role. This includes those involved in shelf stacking, machine maintenance, sign erectors, excavations, and unloading/loading vehicles.
Is this a mandatory course?
Regulation 5 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 states that employers must ensure all employees engaged in any work at height activity must be competent to do so. Falls from height are one of the most common causes of injury at work. Employers must ensure staff and members of the public are protected when conducting any work at height.
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