Training
Health & Safety training is an important element of your working life at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and is a means of understanding how to do a task or activity safely without causing any ill-effects on health or workplace injuries.
The Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 requires every employer to provide whatever information, instruction, training and supervision is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the Health & Safety at work of their employees and other affected by their activities.
The benefits of providing Health & Safety training are:
- Employee competency – understanding of how a task or activity should be carried out safely
- Building a good safety culture
- Legal compliance – meeting the legal requirements for Health & Safety in the workplace
Health & Safety Services offer a wide range of training courses for staff. From Health & Safety Induction to Laboratory Awareness and Risk Assessment , there is a course to cover many of the Health & Safety requirements on campus.
Links to each of the courses on our 2024/25 learning programme are below. To book onto a course please do this directly via or visit our Book Training page for more information.
If the course you are looking for is not here, or you would like to arrange a bespoke course for your department, then please contact us on 0118 378 7737 (internal 8888) or email safety@reading.ac.uk.
Course Title | Dates | Booking |
Accident/Incident Investigation |
06/11/2024 25/02/2025 15/05/2025 |
or |
TBC | ||
Connecting Regulators & Gas Cylinders | On Demand | |
COSHH Risk Assessment |
15/10/2024 11/12/2024 30/01/2025 04/03/2025 01/05/2025 11/06/2025 |
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DSE Administrator Training (Cardinus) | On Demand | |
DSE Assessor Role Induction |
09/10/2024 17/12/2024 29/01/2025 06/03/2025 13/05/2025 05/06/2025 |
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Fieldwork Health & Safety Risk Assessment |
13/11/2024 29/01/2025 21/05/2025 |
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Fire Safety Induction/Refresher | Online Only | |
Fire Evacuation Officer Training |
02/09/2024 04/12/2024 19/02/2025 09/04/2025 |
or |
Fire Safety & Use of Extinguishers |
11/09/2024 19/09/2024 14/05/2025 17/06/2025 |
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Fire Evacuation Chair Operator Training | On Demand | |
Fire Wardens Training |
02/09/2024 04/12/2024 19/02/2025 09/04/2025 |
or |
Food Safety & Hygiene | On Demand | |
General Risk Assessment |
18/09/2024 24/10/2024 26/11/2024 15/01/2025 11/02/2025 20/03/2025 24/04/2025 21/05/2025 17/06/2025 |
or |
Genetic Modification: A course for researchers | TBC | |
Health & Safety Coordinator Role Induction |
17/09/2024 14/11/2024 07/01/2025 26/03/2025 30/04/2025 11/06/2025 |
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Health & Safety Coordinator Workshop |
23/10/2024 03/12/2024 23/01/2025 12/03/2025 29/04/2025 12/06/2025 |
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Health & Safety Induction |
08/10/2024 21/01/2025 23/04/2025 |
or |
Health & Safety Inspection Mentoring |
19/11/2024 05/02/2025 08/05/2025 |
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Introduction to Laboratory Safety for Biologists | TBC | |
Lab Awareness: An Introduction to Safety in Research |
17/10/2024 22/01/2025 04/02/2025 30/04/2025 08/05/2025 |
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Laboratory Risk Assessments & COSHH |
TBC |
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Laser Safety | TBC | |
Local Committee Chairs | 12/11/2024 | |
Managing Health & Safety for HSCs |
05/12/2024 18/03/2025 03/06/2025 |
or |
Manual Handling |
15/10/2024 13/02/2025 20/05/2025 |
or |
Manual Handling Risk Assessments | TBC | |
Radiation Safety: X-Ray Generators | TBC | |
Use of Ionising Radiation | TBC | |
Using Liquid Nitrogen Safely | TBC | |
Working at Height | TBC |
Please note:
- There is usually no charge for routine training courses delivered by Health and Safety Services staff. There may however be charges for courses provided by external companies.
- First Aid/Appointed Persons training arranged by Occupational Health is free but there is a fee if staff book a place and fail to attend or give inadequate notice of withdrawal.
Cancellations
H&SS operate a cancellation policy for all training.
Please contact us as soon as you know that you are unable to attend a training course. We can often offer your place to someone else. A late cancellation fee of £40 may be charged to Schools/Functions when less than 2 working days’ notice is given of withdrawal. Cancellation by simply not turning up to a session will increase the fee to £50 (or the full per person course fee for external training courses e.g. First Aid).
If you are unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances, an email notification should be sent from your Line Manager to safety@reading.ac.uk and consideration will be given to a waiver of the charge.
For more information please access our cross charging and cancellation policy.
MB, July 2024
Health and Safety Services training
Other training providers:
- Book training using
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Contact Health & Safety Services:
- email: safety@reading.ac.uk
- tel: 0118 378 8888 (internal 8888)
- Report an Incident Online