Awareness of Home Working
Working from home has now become an ever-growing trend. With so many people in the workforce now embracing home working, employers must consider the challenges of supporting their home working staff to continue to work safely, just as they would with any employee. Equally, home workers must take care with their own health and safety.
This Awareness of Home Working online training course is packed with current information and engaging activities, looking at what home working is, risk assessments and controls, safe use of display screen equipment (DSE) and mental health and stress. If you’re an employer, hybrid or home working employee then this course is for you.
Topics Covered
Benefits of home working
• What is home working?
• Supporting home workers
• Risk assessments
• Risks and hazards of home working
• Electrical equipment in the home
• Conditions for home working
• Display screen equipment (DSE) and the correct use of DSE
• Working from home – managing stress and mental health
• The importance of appropriate communication
• Home working policy
• Employer and employee roles and responsibilities
Who is it aimed at?
This online training course is suitable for employees of all levels, where an awareness of home working is required.
Key details at a glance
Duration: 30 - 35 minutes
Assessment: Multiple choice questions
Certificated: Yes – Highfield Completion Certificate
Localisation: EU legislation within a UK context, but suitable for international businesses that trade with the EU and will be subject to the legislation.
Placing an order
To register learners for their course we need their names and email addresses. If you are ordering a single course for yourself we will use the details provided on the order unless you specifically tell us otherwise.
If you are ordering multiple courses for a team simply purchase the amount of courses you require and email the names and email addresses of your learners to office@evidentsolutionsgroup.com and we will complete the registration process.

