Electrical Safety Training Course

This online Electrical Safety Training course is ideal training for those who work with electrical equipment and require adequate knowledge to ensure that they conduct their work safely. There are many industries that require employees to work with electrical equipment. Due to this, it is essential that proper training has been undertaken and completed to ensure that precautionary measures are in place.

Electricity can cause serious injuries and, in some severe cases, accidents resulting in death. This course looks at the basics of electricity and how it behaves. Gaining this knowledge is useful for employees, as it can help them make informed and safe decisions when working with electrical equipment.

Our course will help learners to understand what control measures are needed to be in place when working with electricity. It also looks at the roles and responsibilities that employers and employees hold when dealing with electricity, also how to conduct a risk assessment within the workplace.

• Work towards compliance with UK Health and Safety legislation
• Train online at your own pace with a full audio voiceover
• Assured by RoSPA & Accredited by CPD
• Certificate on successful completion
• Course duration: 30 minutes
• Unlimited resits at no cost

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Who is this Online Electrical Safety Training for?

This online awareness course is for anyone in the workplace, especially those who work with machinery of any kind. Job roles that may find this training beneficial may inlcude; electricians, energy suppliers and engineers, IT technicians and cable engineers.

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Electrical Safety Training Certification

Our entire library of training courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as adhering to the universally recognised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

This training course and it's content has also been assured by RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Upon passing the online assessment you will have the options to both print and download your Electrical Safety Training Certificate in PDF format. In addition to this an automated email will also be sent to your chosen email address containing a link to your certificate ensuring you always have access to a copy.

Furthermore, a QR code is displayed on each certificate which when scanned by a smartphone links to our certification database. This allows employers, auditors and local authority inspectors, for example, to establish a certificates validity instantly and at any time.

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Course Aim

The aim of this training course is to give you a basic level of knowledge relating to what electricity is, how it can cause injury and the kinds of control measures you can follow to help minimise the risk of electrical hazards causing injury, or even death.

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Learning Objectives

On completion of the course, you should be able to:

• Give some statistics relating to death and injuries caused by electricity
• Name the regulations relevant to electricity
• Identify the responsibilities of the employers and employees under the Health and Safety at Work Act
• Identify the role and responsibilities of the HSE relating to electricity
• List employers and employees’ legal responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act
• Recognise what electricity is
• Identify how electricity is measured
• Recognise how electricity ‘behaves’
• Recognise how electricity can cause harm
• Identify what kinds of injuries are caused by electricity

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Training Course Content

This course is made up of the following modules:

• An Introduction to Electrical Safety Training

  This section covers types of use for electric, statistics relating to electrical deaths and serious injuries and the law and regulations that covers electrical safety.

• Module 1 - What is Electricity, Generators and how Electricity is Measured

  This section covers what electricity is and how it is provided to homes and workplaces, different generator types and how electricity is measured.

• Module 2 - Common Terms Used, How Electricity ‘Behaves’ and How it can Cause Harm

  This section covers the common language used when referring to electricity, how electricity behaves and how it can cause serious harm when used incorrectly.

• Module 3 - Electrical Safety and Control Measures

  This section covers how to correctly work with electrical appliances and what you should do to ensure safety of yourself and others, and the control measures that should be applied to reduce the risk of harm to all.

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Assessment

On completion of the course lessons and training material an online assessment will automatically unlock. The assessment will contain 15 multiple-choice questions and a mark of 75% or above will be required to pass.

The assessment will be marked instantly and so you will know straight away if you have passed or not. If you don't pass first time there's no need to worry. Unlimited resits at absolutely no additional charge are available so you can retake the assessment again as many times as you need to.

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