E-Learning Course Content:
This highly interactive and engaging e-learning course focuses on the topic of Managing Contractors, which is the process of ensuring that external workers are engaged safely, effectively, and in compliance with legal requirements.
Contractors bring valuable expertise, flexibility, and speed to organisations, but managing them involves unique challenges and risks compared to employees. From safety and quality concerns to cost control and shared legal responsibilities, organisations must adopt a structured approach to contractor management to protect both people and projects.
This short course aims to help learners manage contractors safely. They will be equipped with practical tools to plan, select, induct, monitor, and review contractor work, enabling them to ensure safety, compliance, and successful project outcomes.
The e-learning can be provided as SCORM files, or on a subscription basis, whether hosted on your own Learning Management System, or using our, feature-rich, easy-to-use learning platform.
Watch this video for a quick overview of the e-learning course:
Managing Contractors
Safe, compliant, and effective contractor management
Managing contractors is essential for ensuring that organisations engage external workers safely, effectively, and in compliance with legal standards. The Managing Contractors e-learning course provides a comprehensive overview of how to differentiate between employees and contractors, assess the benefits and risks of using contractors, and apply the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) structured 5-step plan for contractor management. It covers planning, selection, induction, monitoring, and review, helping organisations avoid safety incidents, quality issues, cost overruns, and legal consequences.
Through interactive content and real-world scenarios, this course equips learners with the knowledge and practical skills needed to manage contractors with confidence, strengthen compliance, and ensure successful project outcomes. Whether learners work in construction, facilities management, manufacturing, or office environments, understanding contractor management is crucial for protecting people, maintaining standards, and safeguarding organisational reputation.
This e-learning course is aimed at all employees and provides a general overview of the key requirements of managing contractors safely and effectively. Therefore, it is excellent training for:
- All employees
- Health and Safety Officers
- Procurement and Supply Chain Teams
- Project and Site Managers
- Team Leaders and Supervisors
- HR and Compliance Officers
- Senior Managers and Directors
- Facilities and Operations Staff
- Consultants
- It’s an online e-learning course
- Containing two interactive modules
- Blending videos, text, graphics and images
- Regular on-going testing as you progress
- A full final assessment with CPD certification
To put it simply, this online course serves as a critical training tool for professionals across all sectors, ensuring organisations engage and manage contractors safely, effectively, and in compliance with legal requirements. With this e-learning course:
- Understand the differences between contractors and employees
- Learn the key benefits and risks of engaging contractors
- Recognise shared legal responsibilities for contractor safety and compliance
- Gain insights into the HSE’s structured 5-step plan for contractor management
- Be equipped with practical tools to plan, select, induct, monitor, and review contractor work
- Definition of contractors vs employees – what sets them apart
- Key benefits of engaging contractors – flexibility, expertise, and speed
- Potential risks – safety, quality, cost, and legal considerations
- Shared legal responsibilities for health and safety compliance
- Planning – defining work scope and identifying hazards
- Choosing a contractor – assessing competence and safety record
- Working on site – providing inductions and clear communication
- Keeping a check – monitoring safety, quality, and progress
- Reviewing the work – capturing lessons learned for future projects
- A chance to test your knowledge of the topic with scoring
- The e-learning course comes with free CPD certificates for the learners
- Practical courses – This course is designed to help your learners in the real business world, giving them practical skills that they can quickly and easily implement in the workplace.
- Interactive and engaging – Learning doesn’t have to be boring. This multi-media course is designed to keep your participants engaged throughout.
- Step-by-step learning – This course is broken down into easy to manage bite-size chunks. From start to finish we take your learners on an enjoyable learning journey.
- Fully accredited – The CPD Verification Service accredit all our courses, so you can be sure our training materials are of the highest standard.
Where clients are not using our LMS and wish to host it on their own LMS instead, we provide SCORM files that they can simply install directly. Although these files are added to the clients LMS as usual and the user will access and view the course exactly as they would if it was built on the clients system, we are still able to track user numbers our side and also provide regular updates to the content.
Our e-learning products are always provided ‘white-label’ with no Trainer Bubble logos or references to our company.
We also understand that you may like to make alterations to the content. Whether it’s minor edits, larger alterations, adding of logos, or swapping images to better reflect your corporate identity – we can provide this change for a small fee.
Please note: We regularly update our courses to reflect legal changes or just general improvements to content. All this happens without you having to lift a finger whether the course is on your LMS or ours.
