Health and Safety eLearning

Health and safety eLearning course highlights:

Engaging content

Our health and safety eLearning courses feature dynamic, interactive content designed to keep learners engaged and improve retention. Using simulations, real-world scenarios, quizzes, and drag-and-drop activities, we make training practical, memorable, and relevant to everyday work.

With varied formats including branching scenarios and assessments, our eLearning supports different learning styles — helping teams retain knowledge and apply it confidently on the job.

Highly customisable

Tailor your health and safety eLearning to fit your organisation’s needs. We can incorporate your internal policies, address industry-specific risks, and adapt the tone to reflect your company culture.

Whether you need light adjustments or a fully bespoke course, our flexible approach ensures your training is always relevant, effective, and aligned with your learning objectives.

Assessments

Our courses include built-in reflection activities and end with a comprehensive final assessment to reinforce learning and boost retention.

These aren’t just recall tests — they’re designed to assess how well learners can apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. Question types include multiple-choice, scenario-based challenges, and open-ended reflections, offering a well-rounded evaluation of each learner’s understanding and workplace readiness.

Translations

Our health and safety courses are available in multiple languages, ensuring every employee can access effective training — regardless of location.

We go beyond simple translation by fully localising content to reflect cultural norms, regional regulations, and industry-specific terminology. This guarantees the material is not only clear, but also relevant and compliant for international teams.

The result? Consistent, high-quality training across your global workforce.

Updates

Our courses are regularly updated to reflect the latest health and safety regulations, legal standards, and data protection requirements, including GDPR.

We work closely with industry experts to revise content as soon as changes occur, ensuring your training stays relevant, compliant, and legally sound — without any extra effort on your part.

Our health and safety eLearning courses:

Accident Reporting and Investigation

This 20-minute course is designed to equip learners with effective incident management skills. Participants will learn about reporting protocols, conducting investigations, and prevention strategies.

Control of Hazardous Substances

This 15-minute course helps learners to manage risks associated with hazardous substances. Participants will learn about regulatory frameworks, risk assessment, and control measures, ensuring a safer working environment.

Display Screen Equipment

This 30-minute course will provide learners with the knowledge to assess and manage risks when working with display screens. It includes identifying potential health hazards, optimising your workspace, and the importance of taking breaks.

Driver Safety

This 30-minute course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to improve the safety of their driving. Learners will explore the importance of planning, UK road safety regulations, and recognise potential driving hazards.

Fire Safety

This 30-minute course will provide learners with the knowledge to prevent, contain, and respond to fire emergencies in the workplace. This includes identifying potential hazards, assessing risks, and emergency procedures.

First Aid Awareness

This 40-minute course explores the fundamental lifesaving skills and knowledge learners need when responding to common emergencies. This includes CPR, wound care, and choking incidents.

Food Safety

This 30-minute food safety course has been designed to educate learners with essential knowledge and skills to ensure the safety and quality of food throughout its journey from handling to consumption.

Health and Safety

This 40-minute course is designed to support your team's understanding of health and safety in the workplace. This includes identifying potential hazards, assessing risks, and the practice of reporting accidents and near misses.

Health and Safety for Line Managers

This 30-minute course is designed to arm managers with essential knowledge for ensuring workplace safety. Participants will explore risk assessment, hazard identification, and how to promote an open safety culture.

Health and Safety for New and Expectant Mothers

This 30-minute course provides knowledge to support new and expectant mothers and ensure they are working in a safe and supportive environment. Participants will explore roles and responsibilities, risk assessments, and workplace accommodations.

Legionella Awareness

This 15-minute course explores legionella risk assessments, water management, and regulatory compliance. Participants will learn protocols for preventing and managing legionella bacteria risks.

Lone Working

This 30-minute course covers the risks associated with lone working and how to stay safe when working independently. Learn key strategies for risk assessment, emergency planning, and maintaining well-being.

Manual Handling

This 30-minute course explores the necessary techniques to safely move and manage items safely and preventing injuries in the workplace. Learners will explore proper lifting techniques, risk assessment methods, and ergonomic principles, minimising the risk of injuries.

Mental Health Awareness

This 30-minute course provides practical guidance on identifying early signs of poor mental health, understanding the impact of workplace culture, and knowing how to offer appropriate support without overstepping boundaries.

Personal Travel Safety

This 20-minute course explores travel safety awareness, providing learners with the skills to prepare for trips and travel safety.

Slips, Trips, and Falls

This 20-minute course equips participants with essential knowledge and safe practices to reduce the incidence of slips, trips, and falls.

The Role of a Fire Marshal

This 40-minute course will help enable learners to understand their duties as a fire marshal. Participants will explore fire marshal responsibilities, evacuation procedures, and fire prevention strategies.

Working at Height

This 20-minute course equips participants with the safety protocols necessary for tasks involving elevated positions. Risk assessments, fall protection measures, and best practices, will enable your staff to work safely and confidently at heights.

Why choose SkillSet for your health and safety eLearning?

Organisational branding

Include your logo, colour scheme, font, and grammar rules. This ensures each health and safety eLearning course reflects your organisation’s unique look and feel.

Real-world relevance

Integrate your existing materials and include specific scenarios within the health and safety eLearning courses to put the learning into a context that the user will understand and can apply to their role.

Rapid deployment

Our pre-written content allows for swift customisation, enabling you to roll out tailored training solutions within hours. This not only saves you valuable time, but also optimises resources, ensuring your team is equipped with the necessary skills quickly and effectively.

Our credentials

Certified to ISO 9001 for quality management and ISO 27001 for information security, we ensure the highest standards in our services. As an AWS Consulting Partner with Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications, we guarantee robust data protection for our clients.

Hosting flexibility

Choose to let SkillSet host the health and safety eLearning courses for you, or integrate them into your existing learning management system. We offer flexibility to meet your organisation’s needs.

Accessibility

Compliant to WCAG 2.1 AA standards, our health and safety eLearning courses are enjoyable for everyone, irrespective of whether or not they have a disability.

Meet our content development team:

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Jemma Greener

Operations Director

With over 14 years of industry experience, Jemma is the driving force behind SkillSet’s success. She excels in transforming complex client needs into tailored, effective training solutions. Jemma’s hands-on leadership style, combined with her dedication to collaborative problem-solving, has earned her respect from both clients and her team.

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Vesna Kranjec

Consultant

With 13 years at SkillSet, Vesna is a key creative force, known for her ability to balance innovative design with practical solutions. Her passion for tackling challenging projects has led her to continuously push the boundaries of eLearning, delivering visually engaging and effective training that meets the unique needs of every client.

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Adam Brown

Consultant

Since joining SkillSet in 2019, Adam has become an integral part of the team, recognised for his adaptability and enthusiasm in tackling diverse projects. He thrives on the challenge of transforming complex material into engaging, accessible training modules, leveraging his research skills and creative flair to deliver high-quality eLearning solutions for every client.

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Kate Williams

Content Writer

Kate joined SkillSet in 2024, bringing with her a strong background in marketing, PR, and communications. With experience across sectors like recruitment, coaching, and media, she excels in crafting clear, engaging content that resonates with diverse audiences.

SkillSet's health and safety eLearning was the perfect solution for these clients:

Customised Training

Cyber security eLearning

One of our customers surveyed over 38,000 learners after they completed our cyber security course. The survey found that 93% of respondents rated it as good or above, with 60% rating it as excellent.

Additionally, 94% of learners agreed that their technical skills had improved as a result of taking the course.

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Health and safety eLearning

SkillSet delivered highly customised off-the-shelf health and safety eLearning courses for a leading manufacturer.

Our client was able to deliver eLearning to their staff rapidly and effectively, demonstrating the organisation’s compliance with UK health and safety legislation.

Frequently asked questions:

How does health and safety eLearning benefit employees?

Whether you’re a small business or a large global corporation, our courses equip your employees with essential knowledge to recognise, prevent, and respond to workplace hazards. By understanding and adhering to safety protocols, employees can reduce the risk of accidents and injuries, leading to a happier, healthier workforce. Find out more in our blog post: Benefits of Off-the-Shelf Health and Safety eLearning.

How can health and safety eLearning help a small business?

Our courses provide cost-effective training that can be easily scaled to fit the needs of your team, regardless of size. By equipping employees with essential safety knowledge, small businesses can reduce the risk of workplace accidents, which in turn can lower potential legal liabilities and costly downtime.

Who is responsible for health and safety in my business?

Ultimately, the business owner or top management holds the primary responsibility for ensuring that your workplace meets all health and safety regulations. This includes implementing safety policies, providing appropriate training, and ensuring that all employees understand and follow safety protocols. However, employees also play a crucial role in maintaining a safe work environment by adhering to the training provided, reporting hazards, and using equipment and procedures correctly.

Yes, under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, employers have a legal duty to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety, and welfare of their employees and others who may be affected by their operations. This includes providing appropriate training to ensure that employees understand the risks associated with their work and know how to perform their duties safely.

What is the difference between bespoke and off-the-shelf eLearning?

Bespoke eLearning offers content that is finely tuned to an organisation’s specific industry, culture, and learning objectives. In contrast to bespoke material, off-the-shelf eLearning refers to existing training content available for purchase and use by a wide range of organisations. Read more in our blog post: What Is Bespoke eLearning?

SkillSet also offers these tailored off-the-shelf eLearning courses: