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Professional Window Cleaning Safety Training

Learn the key safety skills you need to clean windows safely using water-fed pole systems. This online course is designed to help window cleaners understand common risks, follow safe working practices, protect the public, and work professionally on domestic and commercial sites.
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What you’ll learn

- Advantages of using water-fed pole systems

- Risks and hazards associated with water-fed pole work

- Pre-job risk assessments and site walk checks

- Understanding risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work

- PPE requirements for window cleaning operations

- Securing work areas
and setting up exclusion zones
- Safe hose management and trip hazard control

- Working safely around pedestrians, customers, vehicles, and traffic

- Managing risks in different work environments

- Legionella awareness and water system safety

- Manual handling and reducing musculoskeletal strain

- Safe equipment handling, checks, and maintenance

- Best practice for streak-free window cleaning

- Avoiding damage to windows, frames, sills, and customer property

- Weather-related safety considerations

- Safety around overhead power lines

- Final assessment and certification

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Our Process

This CPD-certified Window Cleaning Safety course gives you a practical, repeatable safety system for carrying out window cleaning work using water-fed poles. It is designed to help new starters, experienced operatives, supervisors, and business owners understand the key risks involved and apply safe working practices on every job. The course covers the full process from pre-job planning and site assessment through to setting up safely, managing public areas, controlling hose hazards, using equipment correctly, and recognising when work should stop due to unsafe conditions.

what you’ll be able to do after this course

After completing the course, you’ll be able to identify common hazards linked to water-fed pole window cleaning, carry out basic site checks, understand the importance of risk assessments and method statements, set up safe working areas, control hose and pedestrian risks, use PPE correctly, and recognise key hazards such as traffic, fragile surfaces, Legionella, manual handling, and overhead power lines. You’ll also understand how to protect customers’ property, maintain professional standards, and make safer decisions before and during window cleaning work.

who this course is for

This course is designed for professional window cleaners, new starters, supervisors, business owners, exterior cleaning companies, facilities teams, and anyone using water-fed pole systems as part of their work. It is ideal for businesses looking to onboard staff properly, demonstrate that basic safety training has been provided, and create consistent working standards across their team.

Course format

This is online, self-paced training that can be completed at a time that suits you. The course can be paused and resumed, making it suitable for both individuals and teams. You’ll finish with a multiple-choice assessment, with a 75% pass mark required to achieve certification. Your certificate will be issued upon successful completion

Online Window Cleaning Safety Training

Ready to work safer, train your staff properly, look more professional, and confidently demonstrate basic safety awareness to clients and commercial customers?
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