Product Highlights
The benefits of our IOSH Risk Assessment online course include:
- Knowledge of how to protect your business using practical and accurate risk assessments to protect your employees from risks within their various roles
- Identifying various risks and putting measures in place to prevent harm to your employees
This short course on Health and Safety Risk Assessment has been developed by training specialists and explains how you can assess risk in the workplace and what controls or measures you need to implement upon assessing those risks.
What is the IOSH Risk Assessment online course?
This course covers how to understand risks in the workplace and carry out effective risk assessments.
A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your employees and your place of work. Preparing a risk assessment and evaluating any risks will help you identify those with the potential to cause real harm. Additionally, it will help you identify effective measures that can readily control risks to ensure your workforce is protected.
Furthermore, the IOSH Risk Assessment online course covers:
- Writing a risk assessment
- Identifying hazards and risk activities
- Deciding who might be harmed
- Evaluating risks
- Recording findings
What does the IOSH Risk Assessment online course cover?
You will learn about the risk assessment process for managing safety standards and hazards in the workplace. The course will also help you understand how to carefully examine what, in your workplace, has the potential to cause harm to people. This is a practical training course full of step-by-step guidance that will help you understand risks and the controls or measures you need to implement upon assessing those risks.
- Understand the five steps to risk assessment – You will learn what a risk assessment is and how risk assessments are carried out
- Understanding hazards and hazardous events – Understand the types of hazards and what a hazardous event is
- Introduction to common hazards – Understand the types of hazards that can cause harm, what you can do about common hazards and how easy it is to overlook some hazards
- Defining and assessing risk – Learn what a risk is and how to assess risk
- Hierarchy of controlling risks – Understand the hierarchy of control, how you reduce risk and which risk control(s) to use
- How to complete an IOSH Risk Assessment Form – Learn how to complete a risk assessment form and understand the risk rating matrices
- Final exam
- Study time – 2 – 3 hours.
Who is the IOSH Risk Assessment online course aimed at?
Our IOSH Risk Assessment online course provides both theoretical and practical content for anyone who may be involved with the risk assessment process in the workplace.
Furthermore, the course is suitable for all industries, workplace environments and premises.
We advise managers to also review our IOSH Managing Safely course.
Why choose the IOSH Risk Assessment online course from First4Safety?
- Access to training to achieve an official IOSH certificate
- Greater flexibility and cost efficiency than classroom training
- 100% online including exams, fully supported by IOSH-approved trainers
- Immediate start. Study when you want, on any device
- Stop and pick up where you left off when convenient
- No hidden charges, the IOSH certificate is included in the price
- Our candidates have a 100% success rate
- Free exam re-sits with additional tutor support, ensuring high-quality learning and results
First4Safety FAQs
Who is First4Safety?
First4Safety is an IOSH-approved training provider. We are listed in the trainers’ directory on the IOSH website.
We have had a relationship with IOSH since 1999 and have delivered in-person training for many years. As our customers’ learning requirements evolved, we have been delivering online learning since 2015.
The certificate you will receive at the end of the course is the official IOSH certificate created by IOSH. It is the same certificate you would receive after completing an in-person course.
What is flexible learning?
You have access to the IOSH Risk Assessment online course for six months, allowing you to study at your own pace whenever it suits your schedule. With the flexibility to log in from various devices such as desktop computers, laptops, or tablets, you can seamlessly engage with the course content as often as you like, allowing for a flexible learning experience.
Does the certificate have an expiry date?
No, once you have completed any IOSH certificate, it will never expire and will be valid indefinitely from the date of issue. However, IOSH does recommend that you take a refresher course every three years to keep your knowledge up to date.
Is this an official course?
Yes. This is the IOSH Risk Assessment online course. At the end of the course, your certificate is printed by IOSH.
What if I do not like the course?
You will receive a full refund within three days of purchase, as long as the course has not been completed.
Is the exam hard?
First4Safety wants to share Health and Safety advice, not catch you out. Therefore the examination is based on course learning. We fully support you and stand by our 100% success guarantee.
How long will the course take?
The course is approximately 2 – 3 hours of study time.
Is your online checkout secure?
The simple checkout process typically takes under three minutes. Our payment partner, Worldpay, offers one of the internet’s most secure methods of paying by card.
Businesses can also use the ‘pay by invoice’ option during checkout, or email us a purchase order (and delegate details) to [email protected] to make payment.
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This course was very easy to follow and very informative. Having completed the course I will now feel much more confident in completing risk assessments.
Easy to navigate course with easy to follow instructions. Completed the IOSH Risk Assessment Course within the guideline timeframe. Will be back for the next course!
