If you are one of the Employees in Healthcare, working at height is part of the job - and so is the legal duty that comes with it. Here is what Employees in Irish Healthcare need to know, and how a Working at Heights Course keeps you covered.
The responsibilities of Employees
You also have legal duties: to take care of yourself and others, and to use the training and equipment provided. In day-to-day Healthcare work that means you should:
- Report defects and unsafe conditions
- Use access equipment as trained
- Wear and check PPE provided
- Never take shortcuts at height
The Healthcare hazards Employees must control
In Healthcare, the falls that Employees most often have to prevent involve ladder use in wards and clinical areas, estates teams accessing roofs and plant on hospital sites and work above occupied, sensitive spaces. Height work in live healthcare settings demands extra planning around infection control, patient safety and access timing.
The Working at Heights Course makes compliance simple
Certifying your people is quicker than most employers expect. Our Working at Heights Course is delivered fully online, takes about 45 minutes, and issues a downloadable certificate the same day. It is CPD certified, RoSPA approved and QQI aligned, and it is written specifically for Employees in Healthcare.
The Working at Heights Training covers the avoid-prevent-minimise hierarchy, ladder and stepladder safety, MEWPs and scaffolds, harnesses and anchor points, and how to carry out a proper risk assessment. Every learner finishes with a recognised Working at Heights Certificate that stands up to HSA inspection and supports your insurance position.
Training that goes beyond the tick-box
Young and new workers are over-represented in fall statistics, and Employees in Healthcare is no exception. Setting good habits from the very first day - never climbing on furniture, never overreaching, always inspecting equipment - is far easier than unlearning bad ones later. Early certification with a Working at Heights Course pays back for an entire career.
Falls from height remain one of the leading causes of serious and fatal workplace injury in Ireland, year after year. The pattern is depressingly consistent for Employees in Healthcare: a short task, a familiar setting, a ladder or platform that seemed fine, and a single moment of overreach. Proper training breaks that pattern by making the safe choice the automatic one.
Frequently asked questions
Do Employees in Healthcare need their own height training?
Yes. Whatever your role, if you plan, supervise or carry out work at height you need a Working at Heights Certificate.
What course suits Employees best?
The Working at Heights Course covers the duties of Employees and all other roles in one accredited, online programme.
How long does it take?
About 45 minutes online, with a same-day certificate, so Employees in Healthcare stay compliant without losing a work day.
More on staying safe at height
The rescue plan is the part most teams forget. If a worker doing employees in healthcare falls and is left hanging in a harness, suspension trauma can become life-threatening within minutes. Calling the emergency services is not a rescue plan; having the equipment, the trained people and the method to recover them quickly is. Our Working at Heights Training makes that planning routine.
Weather turns a routine job into a dangerous one faster than anything else in Ireland. Wind, rain, frost and poor light all raise the risk of employees in healthcare, and the right call is often to stop and reassess rather than push on. Knowing where that line sits is part of being properly trained.
Get certified today
Do not wait for an HSA inspection or a near miss to act. Employees in Healthcare can complete the Working at Heights Course online in 45 minutes and download a certificate the same day. For 10 or more learners, see our team training rates, or contact our team for a tailored quote.
Start the online Working at Heights Training now and put a recognised certificate in every worker's file before the next job at height begins.
