15% of all fires in commercial and industrial premises are caused by hot work

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 15m

Learning outcomes

  • Know what hot work is and the hazards associated with it
  • Understand the hierarchy of control measures for hot work
  • Know when a permit-to-work is needed in order to perform hot work

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 2 sections

  1. 1
    Hot Work Overview
  2. 2
    Control Measures

About this course

Hot work is “any activity or process that generates flame, heat, or an incendiary spark, and introduces (or presents) a foreseeable risk of fire or explosion through a source of ignition by means of tools or equipment.” – GOV.UK

There are many kinds of industrial, maintenance and construction projects that involve hot work, which is a practice that can create significant Health & Safety hazards for workers and their workplace. In fact, it’s actually one of the biggest fire risks that employers, employees and property owners can face. Over the course of the last decade, hot work fires have resulted in an estimated £68 million worth of losses in the UK.

Throughout this course, we explore the common kinds of hot work and the hazards associated with practising them. The course covers responsibilities for carrying out hot work and the hierarchy of control measures, including the key procedures for safety during welding and cutting.

The course can be completed in just 15 minutes and provides a printable certificate upon completion of the end-of-training test.

The importance of Hot Work Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Our most popular languages

Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

Hot Work Training certificate

Download and print

At the end of this Hot Work Training course, users will be given a printable certificate.

In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress is all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Hot Work 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.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

67 real user reviews

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Not engaging or interactive

Found this course far worse than the manual handling one due to the lack of engaging content and information in comparison.

Straight forward and clear information

The course was informative, clear and detailed. A great overview of the subject.

good

nice

Think better always

We will always be careful in all kinds of work

Good

Good

Short and sweet

It would've been more informative if somebody was talking rather than having to read everything. It makes learning easier

Informative, could be better

I personally don't believe that 5 questions is enough for a competency questionnaire, people would probably benefit from a longer questionnaire and the 60% pass mark seems really low to be able to pass a test, I would imagine that 80% would potentially look better. Not all people can learn easily from reading too, some people learn better from either practically doing it (Which I understand that isn't always reasonably practical) or from being spoken to. I flicked through the whole training and answered the questions to which I got 60% and passed, I don't believe this is a true representation of someone being able to confidently learn something.

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This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

Employers must ensure that all workplace Health & Safety risks are properly assessed, controlled and monitored, by either themselves or a Responsible Person, so that staff stay safe from serious and imminent danger when performing hot work. They have a responsibility to ensure that:

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