Month One Safety Training (MOST) e-learning

MOST is an engaging way to learn about Imperial's hazards and how we manage them - and about your responsibilities should you either work with them or accidentally encounter them. The course describes and explains Imperial's systems - if you are a contractor, tenant or spin-off company, you must have your management systems for any hazards you introduce or hazardous procedures you conduct on our sites.

You will benefit from a safer environment. Information relating to hazards, their controls, and emergency procedures should and must be exchanged between employers, staff, visitors and contractors for our mutual benefit - this is part of the legal requirement of the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974.

• Build upon Day One Safety Training
• Understand your role in Imperial's safety management system (SMS)
• Know where you can find details of your responsibilities and who can give you assistance and guidance in carrying them out
• Gain an overview of Imperial's activities, hazards and associated management systems, including your role
• Understand the reasons for risk assessment, who must conduct them and the competency required
• Understand how risk-increasing factors can affect you in your daily work
• Understand the difference between accidents and near misses and know how to report them
• Know where to go for further training

Students may wish to take the course or be required to undertake it by their department as part of their induction.
Staff who have visitors at Imperial for over a month are responsible for ensuring their visitors undertake the MOST course.

Members of Imperial who employ contractors or make arrangements for tenants and spin-off companies who will be on-site for more than one month are responsible for directing the most senior on-site representative of the company to this online course. The senior representative is responsible for ensuring that persons under their control undertake the course. This is intended to supplement the local induction from the building manager or person(s) in charge of the relevant area(s). The sections on Imperial's hazards (including waste and recycling), how we manage them, and the system for escalations and reporting incidents are relevant.

Line managers should note the following: MOST is mandatory for every new member of staff joining Imperial, providing they will work for Imperial for longer than one month. This includes those rejoining Imperial.

MOST is designed to be projected, so you may wish to promote it locally. 
Please encourage line managers who undertake MOST with their staff and students to keep a record of attendance.
For more information, staff may also contact their Department Safety Officer or Faculty Safety Manager.
Those with departmental safety responsibilities can also contact safetytraining@imperial.ac.uk to request departmental attendance reports for the online version.

• It was very pleasant to take
• Very informative and not boring!
• It is comprehensive as it stands
• It was very clear
• The course is very well done
• The course was very informative and highlighted the necessary information
• It was well organised.