LEARN courses
Training available on the LEARN platform, produced or made available by the Health and Safety Department
Courses available
Health and safety induction
Introduction to health and safety at the University
Risk Assessment
Role specific
Head of School responsibilities
Health and Safety awareness for Principal Investigators or Supervisors
Hazardous substances
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
Safe working with liquid Nitrogen
Respiratory protective equipment (RPE)
Respiratory protective equipment
Laboratory animal allergens
Courses required if working with laboratory animals
Access to LEARN
All staff and students have access to the University's e-learning platform LEARN, either direct at https://www.learn.ed.ac.uk/ or via MyEd - both are EASE authenticated and, once logged in, you will be presented with your own personal Homepage.
All courses provided by the Health and Safety Department can be found in the 'Course Catalogue'
To enrol on a course following these instructions:
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Login to Learn
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Select ‘Course Catalogue’ in the top right corner
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The ‘Search catalogue’ options will load. Enter the course name in the search catalogue section and select ‘Go’. If you aren’t sure what the name of the course is, try ‘Browse Categories’.
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Expand the options menu next to the relevant Course ID (you’ll need to hover over it). Select ‘enrol’.
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The self-enrol overlay will load providing further course information. Select ‘Submit’. An enrolment success screen will load. Then select OK to access the course.
Once enrolled, this course will appear on your Homepage next time you log in.
Course attendees data
If you require information on how to download course attendees, please email safetyelearning@ed.ac.uk for guidance.
Firefox Quantum issue
Please note that LEARN does not work correctly within Firefox Quantum and therefore some of our training videos will not run if using this browser. If you are using a managed desktop, you will have the correct version of Firefox installed.
IS have provided the following advice:
There are a couple of choices. You could play these videos in a different browser such as Safari or Chrome, or alternatively it is possible to have two versions of Firefox installed on your Mac - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1149213. You can then download the correct version of Firefox from here - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/.
Please see this link for supported browsers - https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/computing/application-development/application-support/supported-web-browsers
3rd party cookies error message
Some users have reported issues with an error message about their browser blocking 3rd party cookies. At this point, IS have given us the following advice:
"I've not been able to find a suitable third party site discussing enabling third party cookies or indeed an internal website link. I have instead found 4 support articles for Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Chrome at these links:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en-GB"