Electricity on site training for everyone who uses tools and leads, runs a generator or digs near cables
This is PHW training with a certificate of completion. It is not an accredited qualification, so it is for you to decide whether it is enough for your business.
Each person does the course on their own phone, passes a test that is marked automatically, and gets a certificate with a QR code that anyone can scan to check. You see who has passed. Then you watch them do the hands-on checks that apply to their work, on your own site, and sign them off. £22.50 a place.
£22.50 a place is the whole price. It costs the same for one place or fifty.
Electricity can kill. HSE says that every year, using electricity on construction sites results in accidents. Even the ordinary 230 volt mains supply can kill.
A shock can upset your breathing and your heart. A burn can come from the current, or from an arc, which is a flash of fire when the point of a tool goes into a live cable. Even a shock that does not kill can leave serious, permanent injury. It can also make you fall from a ladder, a scaffold or a platform.
Overhead power lines are the big killer. HSE says most of the fatal electrical incidents at work are caused by contact with them. The other big danger is digging into a buried cable. HSE says a cable strike can cause life-changing burns.
Your employer has to build and maintain electrical systems so that they do not cause danger, so far as is reasonably practicable. HSE says a temporary supply on site is not held to a lower standard. Your employer also has to give you health and safety training.
You have a duty too. The Health and Safety at Work Act says you must take reasonable care of your own safety and of anyone your work affects, and work with your employer on it.
There are eight short lessons and a test. The test is marked automatically. If you pass, you get a certificate with a QR code that anyone can scan to check it.
The certificate says you completed the online course and passed the test. Your employer then sees you do the hands-on checks that apply to your work, on your own site, with your own equipment, and authorises you in writing for that work. That part is theirs to assess and sign off.
What does HSE say causes most of the fatal electrical incidents at work?
Who decides which hands-on jobs from this course you are authorised to do on site?
Allow about 40 minutes, test included. It is eight short lessons and then the test.
It says the person completed the online electricity on site course and passed the test. It lists what the course covered and carries a QR code and a certificate number. It is training evidence you can put on file and show to anyone who asks.
Once someone has passed, you watch them on your own site with your own equipment doing the jobs that are part of their work: finding lines and cables, checking leads and, where the work needs it, isolating. You tick off the checks on the practical sign-off sheet that apply to them and write N/A against the rest. When every check that applies is ticked, you sign to authorise them in writing for that work. The online course teaches the rules and the method. The practical on your own equipment is assessed and authorised by you.
Yes. The course and the test are made for a phone screen. They need a mobile signal or Wi-Fi, because the test is marked online. Health and safety training has to take place during working hours, so let people do it on the clock.
Scan the QR code on the certificate. It opens a page that confirms the certificate is genuine.
They can retake the test straight away, as many times as they need. Each go draws a new mix of questions, and the key safety questions always come up. After a fail the course points them back to the lessons to read again.
They can ask for it again by email on the "Lost my link" page, as long as they gave an email address when they started.
This is PHW training with a certificate of completion. It is not an accredited qualification, so it is for you to decide whether it is enough for your business.