Working at Height Awareness (Construction/Rail)

This course will take around 20 minutes

Knowing and understanding the risks and controls associated with working at height is important, to keep you and your colleagues safe and well. The course is designed to provide a general awareness of working at height at a workforce level. 

On completing the course you will understand: 

• what working at height is, the definition and key statistics, and why it’s a risk that needs to be managed 
• the legal requirements that apply to you and your employer
• about risk assessment and the hierarchy of control 
• the different methods of protection to manage falls from height and falling objects 
• some examples of working at height access equipment 
• about emergency planning arrangements