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HSE Safety Officer Foundations: Risk, PTW and ISO 45001
The daily work of a site safety officer, built on the ISO 45001 management system: hazard identification and risk matrices, the hierarchy of controls, JSAs, permits to work and isolation, work at height, confined spaces, lifting, fire and emergencies, health hazards, incident investigation, safety KPIs, and leadership and reporting.
Inside the course
From the lessons
The safety officer's job and why accidents happen
Cengiz Turkoglu
Hazard identification and risk assessment
Safeti | Your Trusted Health and Safety Partner
Permit to work, isolation and hot work
Reynolds Training Services Ltd
Confined space entry
USCSB
Fire safety and emergency response
HASpod
Incident investigation and root cause analysis
NPTEL IIT Kharagpur
Lesson frames belong to the creators named in the Credits below and are shown from YouTube.
What you will learn
Explain why accidents happen and what a safety officer does; map ISO 45001 clauses 4 to 10 onto Plan-Do-Check-Act and run worker consultation; identify hazards and score risk on a 5 x 5 matrix; choose controls by the hierarchy and write a JSA; issue and close a permit to work with isolations, gas tests and a fire watch; plan work at height with a fall clearance calculation, a confined space entry with a rescue plan, and a crane lift with sling tensions; assess fire, chemical, heat and noise risks; investigate an incident to its root causes; calculate LTIFR and TRIR; and write an HSE report a manager can act on.
- Explain why accidents happen with the Swiss cheese and domino models, and what a safety officer does each day
- Map ISO 45001 clauses 4 to 10 onto Plan-Do-Check-Act and run worker consultation
- Identify hazards and score risk on a written 5 x 5 matrix, then choose controls in hierarchy order
- Write a JSA and issue, hand over and close a permit to work with isolations, gas tests and a fire watch
- Plan work at height with a fall clearance calculation, a confined space entry with rescue, and a crane lift
- Assess fire, chemical, heat, noise and manual handling risks
- Investigate an incident to its root causes and write strong corrective actions
- Calculate LTIFR and TRIR on a stated base, choose leading indicators and write an HSE report
For you
Taking HSE Safety Officer Foundations: Risk, PTW and ISO 45001 from the United States
- Free in the United States, as everywhere, and self-paced: lessons, notes and the final assessment are open at any hour, so your time zone and shift pattern do not matter.
- The optional certificate for learners in the United States is a one-off US$23.99. What you get for it
- Plants across the Americas most often run Allen-Bradley, Siemens and Inductive Automation; each has its own free course to take next.
- See automation and engineering jobs in the United States, and what the industry looks like in Houston, Detroit and Chicago.
- EDWartens also has a regional site for the United States, for classroom training and local support: edwartens.com/us.
The course project 路 about 10 hours
HSE pack for a pumping station shutdown: risk register, JSA, permits, lift and entry plans, KPI report and a near-miss investigation
Act as the HSE officer for a 14-day shutdown of a raw water pumping station: build the risk register, write the JSA for a wet well entry, set out the permits, the lift plan and the emergency arrangements, report the shutdown's safety performance, and investigate a near miss. The sample pack shows each document for an invented utility near Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
Sample document pack, 5 documents, filled in for the scenario
- Risk registerRisk register: pump 2 shutdown
- ProcedureJob safety analysis: entry into the pump 2 wet well
- PlanPermit matrix, motor lift plan and emergency arrangements
- ReportShutdown safety performance report
- ReportNear-miss investigation: dropped spanner from the crane gantry
Read inside the course and download as a workbook. The project is optional practice, marked when you submit it; the certificate needs only the modules and the final assessment.
Course content
14 modules 路 38 lessons 路 8h 10m
In order, at whatever pace suits you. Each module ends with a practice task that builds on the last.
- 01The safety officer's job and why accidents happen2 lessons11m
- 02ISO 45001: structure, PDCA and worker participation3 lessons35m
- 03Hazard identification and risk assessment3 lessons59m
- 04Hierarchy of controls, JSA and method statements3 lessons35m
- 05Permit to work, isolation and hot work3 lessons22m
- 06Working at height: ladders, scaffolds and fall arrest3 lessons45m
- 07Confined space entry3 lessons32m
- 08Lifting operations: lift plans, load charts and slings2 lessons18m
Requirements
- Who it is for
- Beginner. For engineering graduates, diploma holders, supervisors and technicians moving into HSE roles. No safety experience is needed; basic arithmetic is enough for the calculations.
- Software
- None required. A spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc) helps with the risk register and the KPI report. What to download, and how
- Hardware
- None.
Software you need
What to download, where from, what it costs and how to install it. Every link goes to the maker's own site, never a mirror.
Nothing to install
A spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc) is enough for the risk register, the calculations and the KPI report; every calculation is also worked by hand in the notes.
Optional
Useful, not needed to finish the course.
- 01Free
LibreOffice
The Document Foundation
- Runs on
- Windows 10 or 11, macOS 11 or newer (Intel or Apple silicon), Linux
- Account
- None needed
- Size
- up to 1.5 GB of disk space on Windows
LibreOffice is free, open-source software under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, for any use including business. Calc is its spreadsheet.
Steps
- 1.Open the LibreOffice download page.
- 2.Check the page has picked your operating system, then select Download.
- 3.Run the installer (administrator rights are needed on Windows).
- 4.Start LibreOffice Calc for spreadsheet work.
- 5.Save as .xlsx if you need to share files with Excel users.
- Choose the latest main version unless your organisation asks for the older, more conservative release.
Official download pagelibreoffice.org
Checked against each maker's own page on 27 September 2026. Trial lengths and editions change; the maker's page is the final word.
HSE Safety Officer Foundations: Risk, PTW and ISO 45001 at a glance
HSE Safety Officer Foundations: Risk, PTW and ISO 45001 is a free, self-paced online course from EDWartens for engineering graduates, supervisors and technicians moving into site safety roles, and engineers who issue permits or supervise contractors. It has 14 modules and 8h 10m of video lessons by Cengiz Turkoglu, Safety Toolbox Talk, SRM Safety Risk Management and others, with written notes and worked problems, a practical project with a document pack and a 15-question final assessment (pass mark 60%). Learning is free with an account; an optional certificate with a public verification code is issued when you pass. Last updated 27 September 2026.
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- Price
- Free, for good. No trial, no card. The only paid item is the optional certificate, a small one-off fee.
- Who it is for
- Engineering graduates, supervisors and technicians moving into site safety roles, and engineers who issue permits or supervise contractors
- Format
- 14 self-paced modules, 8h 10m of video, written notes, a practice task per module and one final assessment.
- Level
- Beginner. Beginner. For engineering graduates, diploma holders, supervisors and technicians moving into HSE roles. No safety experience is needed; basic arithmetic is enough for the calculations.
- Brand
- Vendor-neutral
- Software
- None required. A spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc) helps with the risk register and the KPI report.
- Hardware
- None.
- Certificate
- Optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, verifiable by code. Not a vendor credential.
- Video lessons by
- Cengiz Turkoglu, Safety Toolbox Talk, SRM Safety Risk Management, Auditor Training Online (ATOL), Safeti, Salus: Experts In Safety, NPTEL IIT Kharagpur, Healthier Workforce Center, Compassa eLearning, HSEBox, Reynolds Training Services Ltd, Civil Aviation Safety Authority - Australia, USCSB, Ally Safety, ABCS Safety Training Inc., XO Safety, Maritime NZ, Dr盲ger Global, LiftRight Academy, The Lifting & Rigging Channel, HASpod, Fire Industry Association, Federal Safety Solutions, What's Occ Doc?, Provoking Safety, RedRisks, Ron Alexander, Safe Work Australia (independent creators, credited below)
- Language
- English
- Last updated
- 27 September 2026
A shareable EDWartens certificate
Finish every module and pass the final assessment, and the optional EDWartens certificate is yours. It carries a unique verification code on a public page anyone can check, so it stands up when a recruiter looks it up. See it below.
The course itself stays free whether or not you ever buy one.
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A free course usually means a comment section and hope. This one does not. Every module has an Ask-your-trainer panel that reaches the same engineers who teach our paid programme: people who commission panels for a living, not moderators.
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Common questions
Who is this HSE safety officer course for?
It is for engineering graduates, diploma holders, supervisors and technicians moving into site safety roles in construction, oil and gas, utilities and manufacturing, and for engineers who issue permits or supervise contractors. No safety experience is needed.
Is the course free to learn?
Yes. Every module, the notes, the worked problems, the project and the final assessment are free. The certificate is optional.
Does this course give me a NEBOSH, IOSH or OSHA qualification?
No. It covers the foundation knowledge those qualifications test and prepares you to study for them, but it is not any of them. Those are awarded by their own bodies after their own exams; the EDWartens certificate is a certificate of completion.
What is ISO 45001 and how much of it does the course cover?
ISO 45001:2018 is the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems. The course explains its structure, clauses 4 to 10 on the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and worker participation in plain words, and shows how a safety officer's daily work supplies the evidence an auditor looks for. It does not reproduce the standard's text.
Which calculations does it teach?
Risk scores on a 5 x 5 matrix, fall clearance for a harness and lanyard, ventilation time for a confined space, crane utilisation and sling leg tension, heat stress checks, and injury frequency rates such as LTIFR and TRIR on both the 200,000 and 1,000,000 hour bases.
Do I need any software?
No. A spreadsheet such as Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc helps with the risk register and the KPI report, and the course notes include every calculation worked by hand.
How long does the HSE Safety Officer Foundations: Risk, PTW and ISO 45001 course take?
About 16 hours of video, notes and practice at your own pace. The optional shutdown HSE project takes about 10 hours more.
Can I use this course for safety jobs in the Gulf or elsewhere?
It teaches the practices used on sites worldwide, including the permit, confined space and lifting controls Gulf and Asian EPC sites expect, and recruiters see the topics on the certificate. Local law and a competent person always govern real work, and many employers also ask for a recognised qualification.
What you walk away with
Your certificate for HSE Safety Officer Foundations: Risk, PTW and ISO 45001
Finish the course, pass the final, and this is the document with your name on it.
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Issued by EDWartens, the training division of Wartens, as a Certificate of Completion for this self-paced course. Sold by Wartens Ltd (England and Wales). It is not a vendor certification, a university award or a CPD-accredited activity, and it does not certify competence on live equipment. Delivered electronically; see the refund policy.
Credits
Who made the video lessons
The video lessons in this course were created by the people below, not by EDWartens. Every lesson streams from its creator's own YouTube channel; EDWartens neither hosts nor sells that footage, and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens and do not endorse this course. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.
- Cengiz TurkogluJames Reason's Swiss cheese model of accident causation
- Safety Toolbox TalkHeinrich's domino theory and the accident pyramid
- SRM Safety Risk Managementthe ISO 45001 clause walk-throughs on leadership and support
- Auditor Training Online (ATOL)ISO 45001 clause 5.4, consultation and participation of workers
- Safetiusing a risk matrix with severity and likelihood, and reading safety data sheets
- Salus: Experts In Safetythe elements of a risk matrix
- NPTEL IIT Kharagpurthe university lectures on risk assessment terms, accident investigation and safety performance indicators
- Healthier Workforce Centerthe hierarchy of controls
- Compassa eLearningthe hierarchy of controls as examiners ask it, and how open-book safety exams are answered
- HSEBoxjob safety analysis and incident investigation and reporting
- Reynolds Training Services Ltdwhat a permit to work system is
- Civil Aviation Safety Authority - Australiathe Piper Alpha disaster and the permit handover failure behind it
- USCSBthe investigation films on hot work hazards and confined space deaths
- Ally Safetyfall protection basics, fire extinguisher use and hazard communication with GHS
- ABCS Safety Training Inc.fall clearance, arresting force and free fall distance in 3D animation
- XO Safetysupported scaffold safety
- Maritime NZan introduction to confined spaces
- Dr盲ger Globalthe process of a confined space entry with gas detection
- LiftRight Academyreading a mobile crane load chart step by step
- The Lifting & Rigging Channelhow sling angles change load ratings
- HASpodthe five fire extinguisher types
- Fire Industry Associationan introduction to fire risk assessment
- Federal Safety Solutionsexit routes, emergency action plans and fire prevention plans
- What's Occ Doc?assessing heat stress at work
- Provoking Safetyroot cause analysis with the five whys
- RedRisksLTIF and TRCF calculations
- Ron Alexandercalculating an injury rate on the 200,000-hour base
- Safe Work AustraliaProfessor Patrick Hudson on safety culture and leadership
If you are one of these creators and would like a lesson removed or credited differently, write to info@wartens.com.