Train Your New Workforce on Height Safety in Under 4 Hours: A Site Manager’s Guide

As a site manager, your role is like walking a tightrope. You’re constantly balancing deadlines, budgets, subcontractors, and safety requirements. When new workers show up, the pressure is on to get them up to speed quickly. However, they must be trained, skilled, and meet all legal standards before they even set foot near a scaffold, ladder, or MEWP.

This is precisely where the Leading Edge Basic Awareness – Working at Height course becomes essential. In just 3½ hours, your new recruits can transition from being untrained to certified. This gives you the assurance that your team is safe, compliant, and ready to tackle their tasks. Leading Edge expert training is not just about tick-box training – it’s face-to-face with industry specialists.

Why Height Safety Training is Key for You as a Site Manager

• Legal Compliance: According to the Work at Height Regulations 2005, it’s your duty to ensure everyone working at height is adequately trained and competent.
• Duty of Care: In the unfortunate event of an accident, you’ll need evidence that proper training was provided.
• Time Constraints: You can’t afford to take workers off-site for extended training — you need a quick solution that certifies them without halting progress.

This half-day course addresses all these challenges effectively.

What’s Included in Just 3½ Hours

The Basic Awareness course focuses on the essentials every worker must know before stepping onto the site:

2 Hours of Essential Theory

• Understanding why working at height is risky and how to minimise hazards.
• Knowledge about harnesses: their types, correct fitting, and the real consequences of falls.
• Identifying safe anchorage points and making informed decisions.
• Effective methods for using lanyards, lifelines, and fall-arrest systems.

1 Hour of Hands-On Practice

• Workers fit their own harnesses under the supervision of an instructor.
• They practice setting up anchors and fall-arrest systems in realistic scenarios.
• Your team gains not only theoretical knowledge but also the confidence to use equipment correctly on-site.

Certification That Benefits You

Every participant who passes walks away with a Leading Edge license card and certificate, valid for three years. The training is conducted on your site (with all necessary equipment provided), eliminating wasted travel time. You can relax knowing your workforce is prepared, properly documented, and legally covered.

Why Site Managers Prefer This Course 

• Quick Turnaround – Train new workers in half a day and get them back on-site.
• Easy Compliance – Proof of training to show auditors, inspectors, or clients.
• Practical, Relevant Content – Focused on the knowledge and skills your team truly needs.
• All-Inclusive – Leading Edge supplies all the kit, such as harnesses, lanyards, height safety equipment, and more. All we need to carry out the training on-site is a room to teach.

What This Means for Your Site 

Next time you welcome a group of new starters, book our basic training for the morning, and our expert trainers will ensure that all workers learn the necessary skills to work confidently and competently at height. Once they’ve completed their full height safety training, passed their exams, and received their certificates, they can then start to practise their newly qualified skills on-site. Our expert training courses provide site managers with the confidence that new starters are safe, capable, and compliant on-site. That’s the promise of this course.

Next Steps for Site Managers 

If you have new workers coming in or if your existing team needs a refresher, don’t wait until they’re already busy with their tasks to think about training.

✔ Book the Leading Edge Basic Awareness – Working at Height course.

✔ Train your workforce in under 4 hours.

✔ Get back to managing your site safely, efficiently, and without delays.

Ready to get your team trained? Reach out to Leading Edge today to schedule your on-site session and keep your operations running smoothly without compromising safety.