Official Online Courses

Start with the course cards on this page: choose the course your work calls for, enrol in a minute and it opens at once on any phone, tablet or computer. Everything listed under official online courses is fully online, so there is no classroom to book in Ireland and no date to wait for.

Every certificate carries a unique verification code. An employer, an inspector or an insurer enters it on the verification page of Irish Manual Handling and sees the name, the course and the date in seconds.

Yes. Every certificate is CPD certified, names the course and the date and carries a unique verification code. Employers in Ireland, from construction and pharma to healthcare, hospitality, logistics and agriculture, check it online in seconds, and it is accepted across Ireland, the UK and Europe.

Yes. Every course is 100% online and open at any hour, so a learner in Dublin and a team in Cork start the same minute and hold the same certificate.

Yes. The duty in Section 10 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 is to train employees for the hazards of their work; how the training is delivered is left to the employer. What an inspector looks for is the record, and each course here ends in one: a dated certificate with a verification code.

It depends on the course. The period is given on the course page and the expiry date is printed on the certificate itself, so nobody has to remember it. A refresher, the same course taken again, renews it with a new certificate.

Yes. The course was built for small screens as much as large ones, so a phone carries every lesson and the assessment, and your progress follows you if you switch to another device.

Yes, and without a single booking. The Employer Dashboard is free: staff are added by email, courses are assigned in a click, progress is visible live and the certificates collect in one place. Larger orders are discounted automatically.

Each course is a series of short video lessons with knowledge checks, followed by one online assessment. Progress is saved automatically, so you can pause on one device and resume on another, and the assessment can be retaken free as many times as needed.

Ask what the job involves and who is asking for the certificate. A named course from an employer, a site or an insurer settles it; otherwise the course cards on this page, from manual handling and manual handling theory to working at heights and abrasive wheels, show which course covers which work, and more than one can be taken under the same account.