{"id":178499,"date":"2022-11-20T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/?p=178499"},"modified":"2023-03-23T01:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:26:48","slug":"employers-need-to-know-about-staff-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/employment\/employers-need-to-know-about-staff-training\/","title":{"rendered":"What Employers Need to Know About Staff Training in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly all jobs require training. As an employer, ensuring you provide your employees with adequate training will improve their productivity. Additionally, you owe certain legal obligations to your employees when it comes to training. This article will explain what employers need to know about staff training in the UK and how it intersects with your obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is Training?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Employee training is a necessary component of management and employment. Training can take various different forms, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing staff how to carry out a task;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">explaining what your staff should and should not do;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ensuring your staff are aware of their rights and rules at work; or<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">passing on information to your staff.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health and Safety Training<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As an employer, you have a legal duty to promote your employees&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/employment\/ensure-workplace-is-safe\/\">health, safety, and well-being<\/a>. In practice, this means that any training programme should be geared towards ensuring your employees can undertake their roles and responsibilities without undue risk;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This obligation to promote health and safety extends beyond employees and includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">management;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">contractors; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">self-employed workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Depending on the nature of your business, there will be some areas of health and safety in which your staff will require training to carry out the work. 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These include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">improved management capabilities;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/employment\/poor-performance\/\">identifying areas of improvement<\/a>;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">create greater accountability;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bolstered staff morale; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reduce customer complaints.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, providing staff training can help you to ensure you comply with additional obligations in the following areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Personal Data Compliance<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a business, you are legally responsible for ensuring that your business&#8217;s data is handed in accordance with the law governing the storage of personal data. The law will hold your business liable if employees handle personal data incorrectly. Therefore, any training programme should ensure employees know how to handle personal data accordingly.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Employer Disclosure Obligations<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As an employer, you must ensure your employees understand the extent of their <a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/employment\/key-changes-employment-contracts\/\">workplace rights<\/a>. For instance, their holiday and sick pay entitlements. You can therefore ensure you comply with your disclosure obligations by incorporating this information into any employee training.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The law does not obligate you to provide staff training as such. However, as an employer, you owe various other obligations to your staff such as promoting their health and safety. Therefore, the practical effect is that you comply with your health and safety obligations by providing comprehensive staff training. Therefore, employers need to know about staff training as it relates to their wider obligations. There are additional benefits to training your employees, such as improved productivity. This is why providing employee training is good practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you need help understanding staff training, our<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/employment-lawyers-lp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">experienced employment lawyers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can assist as part of our LegalVision membership. For a low monthly fee, you will have unlimited access to lawyers to answer your questions and draft and review your documents for a low monthly fee. So call us today on <a href=\"tel:+448081968584\" class=\"AVANSERnumber dynamic-number\">0808 196 8584<\/a> or visit our<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/membership\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">membership page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1668963485194\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>When must an employer provide staff training?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">You should provide training to all who work for you, whether, for example, employees, self-employed or contractors, where it is reasonably practicable to ensure their health and safety in the workplace.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1668963492261\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Is an employer legally obliged to allow their staff time off to train or study?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">As an employer, there are instances where you are legally required to allow your staff unpaid time off to train and study where they are legally classed as an employee and have been employed by you for at least 26 weeks. 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