Slips, Trips and Falls Awareness

Slips, trips, and falls are the most common cause of workplace injury, and they’re almost always preventable. This course highlights the impact of slips, trips, and falls on individuals, businesses, and operations, and gives practical tools for avoiding them.

Learners explore the causes of incidents and how to prevent them in everyday settings, including offices, warehouses, outdoor sites, and work at height. This course is built around practical, real-world scenarios and reinforces personal accountability as well as employer responsibilities

This training is suitable for:

• Staff working in physically active or safety-critical roles
• Supervisors or team leads overseeing site safety
• Office and remote workers who share responsibility for a safe working environment

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

LO1: Outline the key legislation for prevention of slips, trips and falls in the workplace

LO2: Explain why it’s important to prevent slips, trips and falls

LO3: List the common causes of slips, trips and falls

LO4: Explain how employers help prevent slips, trips, and falls

LO5: Describe the steps employees can take to prevent slips, trips, and falls

LO6: Explain how to prevent slips and trips while undergoing cleaning and maintenance

LO7: Explain the importance of good housekeeping

LO8: Explain how to manage trip hazards in the workplace

LO9: Describe the precautions for working at height

LO10: Explain how you can prevent slips, trips and falls

This course combines high-impact visuals, clear narration, and interactive activities to guide learners through: 

• Why slips, trips, and falls matter—statistics and real-world impacts
• UK legislation and employer responsibilities
• Common hazards in indoor, outdoor, and high-risk environments
• Housekeeping, personal accountability, and employee duties
• Working at height: ladders, fall protection, and risk reduction
• Safe cleaning practices and hazard control
• Interactive image assessments to test hazard-spotting 

This Slips, Trips and Falls Awareness training course ends with a 10-question multiple choice test with a downloadable certificate. 

User certificates, training progress, and results are all stored centrally in your LMS and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks, and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance

Your Slips, Trips and Falls Awareness training certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities. 

Note: If using SCORM delivery via a third-party LMS, certification will need to be generated within your host LMS.