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Workplace Safety

Health & safety
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The foundation course every Irish employer is expected to provide — hazards, reporting, safe behaviour and the law, for the parts of the business beyond the kitchen door.

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  • Instant QR-verified certificate
  • Built around HSA guidance
  • Free assessment retakes
  • For every team, front and back office
  • €25One-off payment
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Your certificate

The certificate is the point — so we guarantee it.

The moment you pass, this is issued in your name — carrying a unique ID and a QR code any employer or inspector can check in seconds.

Food Safe Ireland Certificate of Completion

This certificate is awarded to

Sinéad Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh

for successfully completing

Health & Safety at Work

This certificate confirms the successful completion of Health & Safety at Work with Food Safe Ireland — issued in the learner's name, carrying a unique ID, and verifiable by any employer or inspector in seconds.

Adam KearnsManaging Director
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Certificate IDFSI-8K3D-2Q7X-M4PA
Date of Issue14 May 2026
Valid Until14 May 2029
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Accepted by your employer — or your money back If your employer doesn't accept your certificate within 60 days of issue, we'll refund you in full. Terms and conditions apply.

Anyone can check a Food Safe certificate — scan the QR, or verify it any time at foodsafeireland.ie/verify.

Why it matters

Safety is a whole-building job.

The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act doesn't stop at the pass — reception, offices, housekeeping, stores and maintenance all carry duties and risks of their own. This course gives every employee the foundation: spotting hazards, reporting properly, working safely and knowing what the law expects of them and their employer.

Most teams need more than one course. Get every course your team needs on one plan. See All Access plans →
Inside the course

Health & Safety at Work: what you'll actually learn.

Around 120 minutes

Slips and trips, ergonomics, hazards, controls and reporting — the risks every role actually meets, at your own pace.

Multiple-choice assessment

A 70% pass mark is required. If you don't pass first time, retakes are free — there's no extra charge and no catch.

Certificate valid 3 years

Issued instantly with a unique ID and QR code. Your employer can verify it in seconds.

By the end, you'll be able to

  • Spot and report workplace hazards before they become incidents
  • Understand your duties — and your employer's — under Irish law
  • Work safely with the equipment your role involves
  • Set up a workstation that doesn't quietly injure you
  • Know the emergency procedures wherever you work in the building
  • Apply the hierarchy of controls when a hazard can't simply be removed
  • Contribute to a culture where safety gets raised, not buried
Free sample · no sign-up needed

Try it before you buy it.

See exactly what the training is like — watch a sample lesson from the course and test yourself with a quick knowledge check. No account, no email, no catch.

Sample lesson
The hierarchy of controlsTaken directly from the course — exactly as paying learners see it
Knowledge checkQuestion 1 of 3

The FIRST option in the hierarchy of controls is:

Remove the hazard entirely if you can — everything else manages a risk that still exists. PPE is the last resort, not the first.

Workplace safety is legally the responsibility of:

Employers must provide a safe workplace; employees must work safely and report problems. The law binds both sides.

You spot a hazard you can't fix yourself. You should:

Report it, every time. A hazard that's reported gets fixed; a hazard that's worked around injures the next person.

0/3

That's a taste of it. The full course covers everything an inspector — or a bad day — can throw at you, and the certificate proves it.

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Who's behind it

Built by people who've done the job.

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Jason Kearns
Chartered Safety Professional (CMIOSH)

Jason builds the core course material — a chartered safety professional who has worked in safety since 1999, from EHS roles in manufacturing and pharmaceuticals to two decades of safety consulting, auditing and training. He holds a Level 9 Postgraduate Diploma in Fire Safety Practice from Trinity College, and he trains the instructors themselves, delivering QQI Level 6 Manual Handling and People Handling instructor courses.

CMIOSHPG Dip. Fire Safety Practice — Trinity, Level 9Dip. Occupational H&S — UCDQQI L6 Manual & People Handling Instructor Trainer
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Andrew Herbst
Subject Matter Expert & Instructor · Dublin

Andrew checks and verifies every module before it ships — a QQI Level 6 Manual Handling and People Handling instructor, and a fire safety and fire warden instructor, with 28 years of hospitality operations behind the training. The drills in this course come from someone who has run them in real buildings, not read about them.

QQI L6 Manual Handling InstructorQQI L6 People HandlingFire Safety & Fire Warden InstructorQQI L6 Train the Trainer
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Adam Kearns
Instructional Design & Fact-Checking · Managing Director

Adam designed the courses for how people actually learn online — short modules, knowledge checks and assessments built to fit around real shifts — and fact-checks every claim against the source guidance before it ships.

Dip. Instructional & Digital DesignIOSH Managing SafelyDip. Health & SafetyQQI L6 Manual Handling Instructor
Questions

Health & Safety at Work questions, answered plainly.

Every employee — it's the general foundation the law expects across the whole business. Kitchen staff should take Health & Safety in Kitchens instead, which covers the same duties in their much sharper environment.

Employers in Ireland must provide the instruction and training needed for employees to work safely. This course covers that foundation and gives you the certificate trail to prove it happened.

About 120 minutes, and you don't have to do it in one go. Your progress saves automatically, so you can stop and pick up where you left off on any device.

No — and that's deliberate. Lessons unlock in order, and each video has to be watched through before the next opens. It's still self-paced: stop, resume and rewatch whenever suits. But nobody can skip to the assessment, which is exactly why the certificate is worth accepting.

You retake it, free. There's no charge for additional attempts — we'd rather you knew the material than paid us twice.

The moment you pass. It's issued instantly in your name with a unique ID and QR code, ready to download, print or send on. It's valid for three years.

Then you get your money back. If your employer doesn't accept your certificate within 60 days of issue, we'll refund you in full on production of a letter confirming it. Terms and conditions apply.

Yes, and there's no minimum spend. Buy seats, add your team, and manage everyone's progress and certificates from your dashboard — from your very first seat. Seat pricing drops at 2, 5, 20 and 50 seats.

Related training

Courses that pair with this one.

Health & Safety in Kitchens The kitchen-specific version for back-of-house teams. €25View course → Manual Handling Lifting done right — graded by a QQI Level 6 Instructor. €60View course → Fire Safety Prevention, extinguishers and evacuation for the workplace. €39View course → All Access — Complete Every staff course including this one, one plan per person. €99View course →

Sources · Health and Safety Authority · Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 · HSA — Safety statement and risk assessment
Listed for reference. Your own procedures, and the officer inspecting your premises, are what govern your business.

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