This training course helps you work from home safely by evaluating your working environment for safety and helping you overcome key challenges. You’ll find out important aspects of health and safety that need to be considered when setting up and managing home working.
This course was reviewed and updated in February 2025
If you’ve found yourself working from home for the first time it can be a difficult adjustment to make. You also need to ensure your working environment is suitable and safe to work in even if you regularly work from home.
Working from home is more common than ever before. It’s a different way of working than when in an office or on-site somewhere.
Starting to work from home can also be difficult adjustment for some. Working alone or without the usual equipment you’d find elsewhere can make it challenging to maintain your physical and psychological wellbeing. You need to be your own fire warden, first aider, IT technician and cleaner.
Even if you’ve been doing it for years, this course will help you ensure your homeworking environment is suitable and safe to work in. You’ll find out how to make it safer, how to overcome common challenges, and how to look after yourself.
This online working from home training course will give learners key information on how to ensure their working environments are safe and will also help learners overcome key challenges they may face when setting up.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, many people who were previously office based or on site now work from home.
This work from home training course will look at:
This working from home training course should take 30 - 45 minutes to complete, but e-learning is self-paced, so it depends entirely on your individual learning speed and how quickly you absorb the study material.
The training is saved automatically as you make progress you can complete it at your convenience.
This working from home safely training course has been certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines, on completion you will earn 1 CPD point.
After completing this working from home safely training course, you will be able to download and print a Virtual College lone working training certificate for your records.
To download the certificate you will need to pass the end of course assessment, the pass mark is 80% and there are 24 multiple choice questions. The assessment can be taken as many times as is required.
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
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We have some simple yet effective tips to encourage productivity for remote workers.
Some examples are; setting clear goals and objectives, scheduling regular catch-ups, provide regualar feedback, offer help and support and to focus on goals and not activity.
We have a handy, downloadable resources to help you make the most of remote working. You can access them here.
This article gives some advice and insight into the life of remote working.
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This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.