Course Description

As part of gaining a bat licence it is important to be aware of health and safety issues involved with bat work and how to reduce risks. In this course we will cover some of the most common hazards and risks associated with undertaking bat surveys. This course aims to raise your awareness of the risks of certain activities and how to keep yourself safe.

This self-study course will be split into 3 modules. An overview of these modules and what will be covered in each one is outlined below. As this is only an awareness course, we would encourage you to look into more thorough training on topics that you think may be particularly relevant to you in your job but we do provide a lot of useful video links to add to your learning.

Module 1:

• Night work – general hazards
• Lone working
• Working outdoors – general hazards

Module 2:

• Working in loft voids – hazards, asbestos, insulation
• Working at height – ladders, scaffolding and cherry pickers
• Driving – at night

Module 3:

• Working near roads
• Biosecurity – rabies and white nose syndrome
• Risk Assessments

How the course is delivered:

The course will be available as soon as you book and you can study it in your own time. Allow around 4-5 hours to work through it and do some of your own research. At the end there will be a short quiz and if you get over 70% you will receive a Certificate. 

Booking for another person?

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1. Create a student account using the student’s (whoever will be taking the course) details and contact information or use their existing student account.
2. Including the correct billing address and information for the payment method that was used.
3. Leave us a note in the ‘additional information’ box to let us know it was purchased with another person’s debit/credit card.
4. Make sure to pass on the Username and Password to the student so they can get started on learning. All their course materials will be available on their account.

Booking for multiple people?

If you are purchasing courses on behalf of multiple other people, follow these steps to ensure they can access their course/s:

1. Create a student account under your own details and add the correct number of courses for all the students you are purchasing for. (Example: If three people need to take Mammal ID, add it to basket three times).
2. Ask each student (person who you have purchased the course for) to create their own student account on our website with their own details.
3. Once purchased, contact us directly to let us know the Names, student account Usernames and Email Addresses for each student you have bought for.
4. We will contact each of them directly with directions on how to purchase the course free of charge once it has been paid for already.

If you have any problems with this process, please get in touch – [email protected] or 03301653024