Health and Safety Training Online: A Smarter way to Deliver and manage Training Content
When you search for ‘Health and Safety Training Online’, you’ll likely find courses you can buy.
It makes sense, buy a course, assign to your team, tick the box.
But what if you already have your own content? Or you’ve previously bought a library of content you want to distribute online?
What if you need something more flexible, something built for your sites, teams and way of working?
That’s where a training platform comes in.
The usual way: buy online health and Safety courses
There’s plenty of sites offering ready-made content on things like manual handling, fire safety or even COSHH.
They’re often video based, CPD certified and charged per user.
They work well if you don’t already have content and need something quick and general.
However, they can be restrictive. Online courses are designed for a wide audience, not just your business. This means you can’t easily edit or update to reflect your business, or accommodate any future business changes. They might even conflict with your internal policies.
And… if you’ve got lots of new starters or contractors, the ongoing cost can stack up quickly.
A Better fit: Deliver your own training online
If you’ve already got content, or purchased some that you own, there’s another option.
Instead of trying to build a course from scratch, you can use a purpose-built platform to upload, assign and track that content.
This includes videos, PDFs, policies, quizzes, and anything else you need people to complete, such as forms.
You get to stay in control, decide who needs to see what and when. And you can make sure the right people are trained the right way, whether that’s role specific training, site specific training, or user category (visitor, employee, contractor).
Its online training, but with your rules.
Why use a platform instead of a course?
Training platforms give you a lot more flexibility than off-the-self courses, not only for content delivery, but also for analytics, tracking and compliance.
With a training platform you can:
- Use your own content
- Target specific sites or roles
- Keep policies and inductions up to date
- Send automatic reminders and expiry alerts
- Track completions and generate reports
Everything’s in one place. And you don’t need to rely on external providers to make updates or issue certificates.
It works especially well for businesses with:
- A need to train employees and contractors
- High employee turnover
- Multiple locations
- Internal health and safety teams
What to look for in an online health and safety training platform
Not all tools are built with health and safety in mind.
If you’re choosing a platform, make sure it’s easy to:
- Upload your own files (videos, documents, policies)
- Assign training by job, team, or location
- Add quizzes or acknowledgment steps
- Track completions and reissue expired training
- Pull reports for audits or compliance reviews
Some systems even let you build custom forms, useful for incident reporting or on-site checklists.
When a platform is the right move
Courses are great when you need something basic.
But a platform is better when:
- You already have great content
- You need control over how and when it’s delivered
- You’re training a mix of employees and contractors
- You need to prove compliance
- You want something scalable and future-proof
Its ideal for inductions, recurring training such as refreshers, site-specific content and policy acknowledgement. Especially when these things regularly change.
Health and Safety Training Online, your way
You don’t need to settle for off-the-shelf courses.
With a platform, you can deliver health and safety training online using content that fits your business, not someone else’s.
It’s flexible. It’s trackable. And it helps you stay compliant without the admin headache.
Explore Induct & Train, a smarter way to deliver and manage health and safety training online.
