E-Learning
New - now availableAssign courses from Safety Assistance Training to your workers, set a deadline and watch progress come in. When someone passes, Safety Mate® files the certificate and updates your competency matrix, so your training records are never a job for later.
Why it matters
Most e-learning ends with a certificate in someone's inbox and a spreadsheet nobody updates. Safety Mate® links each course to the competency it proves, so finishing the course updates the record that auditors, clients and your own managers check.
A catalogue of health and safety courses from Safety Assistance Training, written by safety professionals, with assessments and pass marks built in.
When a worker passes, the certificate is stored against them and the linked competency is added to your matrix, with its expiry date set from the course's validity.
Every assignment has a status and a deadline. See at a glance who hasn't started, who's part-way through, who didn't pass and who's overdue.
Under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, employers must provide the information, instruction, training and supervision needed to keep people safe. Regulation 13 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 adds that training should be given when people start, when their work or risks change, and repeated where appropriate. HSE's guidance on competence sets out the same expectations in plain terms.
E-learning is a practical way to cover the awareness-level part of that duty. Every worker gets the same content, can fit it around shifts and site work, and is assessed against a pass mark. Practical skills still need hands-on training, but e-learning means the knowledge part is consistent, current and evidenced.
Safety Mate® builds each of these into E-Learning, and keeps the result in the same competency matrix as the rest of your training records.
The course catalogue
Browse the Safety Assistance Training catalogue inside Safety Mate®. Each course shows whether it has an assessment, how many of your people are assigned and how many have completed it.
Courses such as manual handling, working at height, COSHH and asbestos awareness.
Courses available, in progress, completed this month and the average pass rate.
New courses appear in your catalogue as soon as Safety Assistance Training publishes them.
Assign in three steps
Choose a course, tick the workers who need it (or select everyone) and set a complete-by date. Before you confirm, Safety Mate® shows exactly what will happen on completion: the certificate, the competency and how long it stays valid.
Workers who already have the course open are marked as already assigned and skipped.
Each worker gets an email and a Task Manager task with a Start course button.
Workers sign in with their Safety Mate® account, or single sign-on, and go straight into the course.
Filed automatically
Completions land in the latest completions feed with the score, and the certificate and competency are filed straight away. Open the record from Training Records to see the verified certificate in Competency Management.
One competency matrix
E-learning completions sit in the same matrix as CSCS cards, first aid certificates, plant tickets and in-house training, so you see everything a person holds, and anything missing, in one view.
Each competency gets its expiry date from the course's validity period, or no expiry where it doesn't lapse.
Expiring competencies show up before they lapse, so you can assign the refresher in good time.
Export a worker's competency profile with their certificates whenever someone asks for proof.
Training records
Training Records lists every e-learning assignment with its status, dates and score, whether the competency has been filed, and a link to the certificate.
Search by worker or course and filter by status: assigned, in progress, completed, not passed or overdue.
See how far through each worker is, and chase the ones close to their deadline.
Withdraw an enrolment if someone no longer needs the course, for example when they change role.
Everything included
From choosing a course to filing the certificate, every step is covered.
How it works
Choose a course, select your workers and set a complete-by date.
They open the course from their email or task list and sign in with their Safety Mate® account.
Each course ends with an assessment, and progress and scores sync back as they go.
A pass files the certificate and updates the competency matrix, with a renewal date where needed.
FAQ
Safety Mate® partners with Safety Assistance Training, which writes and hosts the courses. They cover core health and safety topics such as manual handling, working at height, COSHH and asbestos awareness, and new courses appear in your catalogue as they're published.
No. Each worker gets an email and a task with a link to their course. They sign in with their normal Safety Mate® account, including single sign-on where your organisation uses it, and the course opens. There's no second username or password to remember.
Safety Mate® picks up the result, files the certificate against the worker and adds or renews the linked competency in your competency matrix, with an expiry date where the course has a validity period. The training record shows the completion date, score and a link to the certificate.
Yes. Choose a complete-by date when you assign a course. Training records show every assignment as assigned, in progress, completed, not passed or overdue, with progress and scores, and you can filter by status, course or worker.
No. E-learning is a good fit for awareness-level knowledge and refreshers. Tasks that need hands-on skill, such as operating plant, using a harness or first aid, still need practical training and assessment. Safety Mate® records those in the same competency matrix, so you see the full picture for each person.
E-Learning is available to UK organisations on Safety Mate® Pro and Enterprise plans. Admins and managers assign courses; workers only see their own courses. Your proposal reflects the courses and number of learners you need - book a demo and we'll talk it through.
Explore the platform
E-Learning is now live in Safety Mate®. Book a demo to see the course catalogue and how completions flow into your competency matrix, and receive a tailored proposal.