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Professional health, safety and environmental qualifications designed for learners, supervisors and working HSE professionals.
Choose the safety course that fits your next responsibility.
Explore workplace safety, risk assessment, manual handling, COSHH, confined-space rescue, investigation and task-risk programmes in one clear portfolio.
Overview, benefits and learning time.
Use these detailed boxes to compare the purpose, learner profile, practical benefits and published learning time before speaking with admissions.
Health & Safety at Work Place
Best for: Employees, new starters and anyone needing a practical workplace safety foundation.
Course Overview
Build a clear understanding of workplace health, safety and welfare responsibilities, the role of risk assessment, and how common hazards can be identified and controlled. The qualification is designed to help people understand how their own actions can affect both personal safety and the safety of others.
Key Benefits
- Understand essential health and safety terms and responsibilities.
- Recognise common workplace hazards before they cause harm.
- Understand how a basic risk assessment supports safer work.
- Apply straightforward controls and safer working practices.
Health & Safety at Work Place
Best for: Supervisors, team leaders and people preparing for supervisory health and safety responsibilities.
Course Overview
Develop broader supervisory competence for managing workplace safety. Learning focuses on legislation, the value of a safety management system, risk-assessment principles, hazard recognition and practical risk-control methods, helping learners deal more confidently with day-to-day safety requirements and incidents.
Key Benefits
- Strengthen supervisory decision-making around workplace safety.
- Understand the role of legislation and safety management systems.
- Build confidence in practical risk assessment and hazard control.
- Respond more competently to workplace safety issues and incidents.
Health & Safety at Work Place
Best for: Supervisors, managers and professionals with direct responsibility for workplace health and safety management.
Course Overview
An advanced workplace health and safety qualification for people with higher-level responsibility. It develops knowledge around health and safety duties, policies, risk assessments, safe systems of work, organisation-wide review of arrangements and incident investigation.
Key Benefits
- Support stronger health and safety policies and management arrangements.
- Develop and implement suitable risk assessments and safe systems of work.
- Review workplace safety arrangements across teams or functions.
- Strengthen incident-investigation and management capability.
Manual Handling – Principles & Practices
Best for: Anyone who performs manual handling at work or in routine activities.
Course Overview
Learn how to move and handle objects more safely while reducing the risk of injury to yourself and others. The course covers reasons for safe manual handling, task risk assessment, appropriate handling equipment and practical principles for safer lifting, carrying and movement.
Key Benefits
- Recognise common manual-handling injury risks.
- Use a simple assessment approach before moving loads.
- Understand when handling aids or equipment are appropriate.
- Apply safer lifting and movement principles in daily work.
Manual Handling Train The Trainer
Best for: People who need to prepare, deliver and evaluate manual-handling training sessions.
Course Overview
A two-unit trainer-development pathway. The first unit develops knowledge of safe manual-handling principles, processes and risk assessment; the second develops the skills needed to prepare, deliver and evaluate a training session in a manual-handling context.
Key Benefits
- Deepen technical understanding of safe manual handling.
- Plan structured and relevant training sessions.
- Deliver manual-handling instruction with greater confidence.
- Evaluate learner understanding and improve future sessions.
Award in Risk Assessment
Best for: Employees and supervisors who need a practical understanding of the risk-assessment process.
Course Overview
Provides learners with the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge of why risk assessments are needed, the legal requirements associated with risk assessment and a straightforward process for carrying out a suitable and sufficient workplace assessment.
Key Benefits
- Understand why risk assessment is a core prevention tool.
- Recognise key legal and workplace expectations.
- Follow a simple, structured risk-assessment process.
- Document hazards, risks and sensible controls more clearly.
Award in Risk Assessment
Best for: Supervisors, safety personnel and learners who need deeper practical risk-assessment competence.
Course Overview
Develops stronger knowledge and practical skill in risk assessment, including the importance of workplace health and safety, the relationship between hazards and risk, risk-assessment processes and the application of the hierarchy of controls to reduce risk to an acceptable level.
Key Benefits
- Differentiate clearly between hazards, risks and consequences.
- Apply a more structured approach to workplace risk evaluation.
- Use the hierarchy of controls to select stronger precautions.
- Support more consistent risk-based safety decisions.
Award in COSHH
Best for: Supervisors and employees who work with, manage or may be exposed to hazardous substances.
Course Overview
Focuses on the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) risk-assessment process. Learners explore relevant legal duties, how assessments support safer use of hazardous substances, and the precautions and procedures needed to keep exposure risks under control.
Key Benefits
- Recognise common hazardous-substance exposure risks.
- Understand the purpose of COSHH risk assessment.
- Support safer handling, storage and control arrangements.
- Improve awareness of precautions, procedures and workplace duties.
Emergency Rescue from Confined Space
Best for: Learners with prior confined-space qualifications or experience who want specialist emergency-rescue competence.
Course Overview
A specialist course for people preparing to work in, or already working around, confined spaces. It covers the nature of confined-space hazards, gases and atmospheric risks, safe systems of work, permit-to-work controls, PPE selection and rescue-readiness considerations.
Key Benefits
- Recognise high-risk confined-space hazards and atmospheric dangers.
- Understand the role of permits and safe systems of work.
- Select suitable PPE and essential control measures.
- Improve emergency-rescue awareness and response readiness.
Stress Management
Best for: Employees and supervisors working in potentially stressful environments or needing to recognise early warning signs.
Course Overview
A focused introduction to workplace stress: what it is, common causes, how to recognise early signs, practical coping approaches, immediate and longer-term solutions, and the role of risk assessment in managing workplace stressors.
Key Benefits
- Recognise early signs and common causes of workplace stress.
- Understand immediate and longer-term coping approaches.
- Support more constructive conversations about workplace pressures.
- Use risk-assessment thinking to identify preventable stressors.
Accident Investigation
Best for: Managers, supervisors, safety practitioners, committee members and anyone responsible for incident investigation.
Course Overview
Develop a structured approach to gathering complete, accurate and objective incident information, analysing evidence, identifying immediate and underlying causes, interviewing witnesses and turning investigation findings into corrective actions that reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
Key Benefits
- Gather and preserve more useful investigation evidence.
- Use stronger interview and fact-finding techniques.
- Identify root and underlying causes rather than stopping at symptoms.
- Recommend corrective actions and communicate findings clearly.
Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
Best for: Safety officers, supervisors, engineers, operations personnel and managers responsible for planning or controlling work.
Course Overview
Build a systematic method for breaking a job into steps, identifying hazards at each stage and selecting effective controls before work begins. The programme also develops JSA documentation, communication, collaboration and continuous-improvement skills so safer task planning becomes part of normal operations.
Key Benefits
- Break complex jobs into clear steps for structured analysis.
- Identify task hazards before work starts.
- Select practical controls and communicate them to the work team.
- Use JSA findings to improve procedures, efficiency and safety performance.
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