Risk Assessment Training from Heightsafe teaches your team how to identify hazards, evaluate risks and put appropriate measures in place to manage and mitigate risk for personnel Working at Height.
The course shows delegates how a risk assessment must be undertaken before any work at height is carried out. It’s a systematic approach and a critical part of preventing accidents, because everyone involved needs to be protected, covered and safe at all times.
The one-day course is delivered at Heightsafe’s premises or on-site at your own premises, and is tailored to the work at height environments your team manages.
Falls from height remain one of the most common causes of serious workplace injury in the UK. Many of these incidents could have been prevented by a proper risk assessment carried out before work began.
A good risk assessment identifies what could go wrong, who could be harmed and what controls are needed. Without the right training, hazards such as fragile surfaces, unprotected edges or poor access can easily be missed.
Who Is the Course Suitable For?
This course is suitable for any managers or supervisors who arrange for their staff to work at height. The law requires businesses to protect people “as far as is reasonably practicable”, and this course helps those with these responsibilities meet their legal duties.
Delegates gain a thorough understanding of the practical application of risk assessment techniques, specifically tailored to the work at height industry, helping to create a safe, pleasant working environment.
Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how to carry out risk assessments specific to working at height tasks. Key topics include:
At Heightsafe, we bring depth and integrity to risk assessment training through:
Book your Risk Assessment Training today to make sure your team is equipped to identify, evaluate and control hazards safely and effectively.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to their employees and anyone else affected by their work.
The Work at Height Regulations 2005 add that all work at height must be properly planned, appropriately supervised and carried out by competent people. A thorough risk assessment is the starting point for that planning.
Employers with five or more employees must also record the significant findings. Our course shows delegates how to produce clear, practical assessments that meet these duties and stand up to scrutiny.
In practice, that means thinking through every stage of a job before anyone goes up: how people will get access, what could cause a fall, what protection is in place and how someone would be rescued if something went wrong.
Our course follows the five steps set out in HSE guidance, applied specifically to work at height:
Delegates practise each step through exercises based on real work at height scenarios.
We host courses at Heightsafe’s premises, or our trainers can come out to your premises. On-site training means delegates can assess the roofs, access routes and equipment they actually manage.
The course takes one day and combines classroom learning with practical exercises, so delegates leave able to apply the five steps to their own work at height tasks straight away.
Groups are kept to a trainer to student ratio of 1:8, giving every delegate the time to ask questions and work through their own examples.
Some sites need an expert assessment as well as trained staff. Our team can carry out Work at Height Risk Assessments and Site Surveys on your behalf.
Where assessments identify existing safety systems, we can also check they are fit for use through our Work at Height Compliance Testing service.
For supervisors who need broader knowledge, our Height Safety Awareness Training includes a dedicated Manager and Supervisor course.
It’s a course that teaches managers and supervisors how to identify hazards, evaluate risks and decide on control measures before work at height is carried out, and how to record and review their findings.
The course is designed for managers, supervisors and anyone responsible for arranging or planning work at height. Delegates don’t need previous risk assessment experience.
Our Risk Assessment Training course takes one day, with a trainer to student ratio of 1:8. It combines classroom learning with practical exercises.
Yes. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require employers to assess risks, and the Work at Height Regulations 2005 require all work at height to be properly planned.
Identify the hazards, decide who might be harmed and how, evaluate the risks and decide on precautions, record your findings and implement them, then review and update the assessment.
Review it regularly, and whenever something significant changes, such as new equipment, a different task, new staff or an incident. Our course covers how to monitor and update assessments over time.
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