About this course
This course trains hygiene (welfare) operatives to clean and maintain the welfare facilities and office accommodation on construction projects to a consistent, HSE-compliant standard. It is designed to be delivered online: each module is structured as reading supported by images, rather than slides alone.
How the course works
The course is organised in three parts: Part 1 — Foundations (Modules 1–8) covers the role, the law, welfare provision, COSHH, hazard pictograms, PPE/RPE, colour-coding and safe storage; Part 2 — Cleaning the areas (Modules 9–16) covers each welfare and office area in turn; and Part 3 — Site safety essentials (Modules 17–24) covers the wider construction-site safety topics every operative needs, from manual handling to fire, biological hazards and reporting.
- Work through the modules in order — later modules build on the health, safety and COSHH foundations set out early on.
- Each module begins with its learning outcomes and ends with a short knowledge check of three multiple-choice questions.
- In this learning copy the correct answer to each question is shown in bold. In an assessment version the bold would be removed.
- The recommended pass mark is 75% across the 72 questions (54 correct).
Important note
| KEY POINTThis course is a guide. Your exact duties, the products you use and your cleaning frequencies are set by your employer and by each site’s risk assessments and method statements (RAMS). Always follow the RAMS and ask your supervisor if anything is unclear. |
Sources and compliance
The content is drawn from and consistent with current HSE guidance, including: A brief guide to COSHH (INDG136); Provision of welfare facilities during construction work (CIS59); Welfare facilities — what you need to know as a busy builder (CIS62); Manual cleaning and disinfecting surfaces (SR4); and COSHH essentials: RPE with an APF of 4 (R1). The site-safety modules reflect the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, the Work at Height Regulations 2005, the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and RIDDOR 2013, together with recognised cleaning-industry practice on colour coding and cross-contamination control.