Health and Safety Induction Training Checklist
This health and safety induction training checklist enables managers and supervisors to systematically verify that all new employees have received and understood essential workplace safety training. Adapted from UK government guidance, it covers critical topics including emergency procedures, hazard awareness, manual handling, PPE provision, and safe systems of work to ensure consistent and compliant onboarding.
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How to Use This Checklist
- **Introduce the employee to the role and workplace safety.** Confirm they have seen the arrangements for doing the job safely, including welfare arrangements, HR and emergency contact details, and the training programmes required for their role.
- **Explain legal obligations, policies, and safe systems of work.** Cover employee duties under health and safety law and your organisational policies and procedures, and confirm the employee is familiar with the risk assessments relevant to their work.
- **Walk through emergency arrangements.** Show evacuation routes, assembly points, alarm activation locations, and the types and positions of fire extinguishers. Identify first aiders, the location of first aid kits, and emergency medical contact numbers. Explain how to report accidents and incidents, what documentation is required, and who receives the report.
- **Provide manual handling instruction.** Cover correct lifting and carrying procedures, the safe use of mechanical lifting aids and equipment, and how to prevent musculoskeletal injuries.
- **Review hazardous substances (COSHH).** Go through the applicable risk assessments, safe handling, storage and disposal, and confirm any occupational health vaccinations or health surveillance the role requires.
- **Assess and issue personal protective equipment (PPE).** Provide the PPE the role needs, and instruct on correct use, cleaning and storage, and how to report faults.
- **Cover hazard awareness and housekeeping.** Help the employee recognise common workplace hazards, explain the channels for reporting risks, and set out the principles for a clean, organised, and safe environment.
- **Train on equipment, tools, and machinery, including electrical equipment.** Cover safe operating procedures, emergency stop controls, the training certifications or authorisations required, and additional health risks such as hand-arm vibration syndrome and repetitive strain injury.
- **Book the mandatory health, safety, and wellbeing awareness course.** This training is compulsory for all staff, so confirm it has been scheduled for the employee.
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Why a structured induction matters
A health and safety induction is the point at which a new employee learns how to do their job without harming themselves or others. It is more than a welcome briefing: it sets out the safe way to carry out tasks, the arrangements in place for emergencies, and the employee's own duties under health and safety law. A structured induction makes sure nothing essential is missed, and gives you a record you can retain as evidence that the training took place. This checklist walks through the areas a new starter needs to understand. It is adapted from UK government guidance and follows a practical order: role and safety basics first, then legal obligations, emergencies, physical risks, and equipment, with the mandatory wellbeing awareness course confirmed at the end.
What a good induction covers
The checklist groups the induction into the following areas. Each is verified with a Yes, No, or N/A response so gaps are visible before the employee starts work.
Confirming and recording the induction
Once you have worked through the areas, confirm that the mandatory health, safety, and wellbeing awareness course has been booked and scheduled — the employee records how many mandatory training sessions remain outstanding. Capture the employee's full name, the delivery method used for the induction, an overall induction readiness score, and any additional comments or observations. The employee then signs, and you record when the inspection finished and its real start and end dates. The completed checklist is retained as a record that the induction was carried out.
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