---
title: "Training"
url: "https://docs.4hse.com/training"
description: "How training is organised in 4HSE: courses, editions and the certificates that attest the skills acquired."
---

# Training

Training keeps track of the courses workers must attend and of the renewals that keep them valid.

It is a [prevention and protection action](/prevention-and-protection/), so it follows the common cycle: define, add recipients, schedule, enrol, record the outcome, issue the certificate. What changes is the vocabulary — courses and editions — and the rules on validity and refresher training.

## Courses and editions

[Section titled “Courses and editions”](#courses-and-editions)

-   A **course** defines the training need: this course exists in this office, it is valid for a number of years, these workers must attend it.
-   An **edition** is one delivery of that course on a date, with a trainer, a location and the people enrolled in it.

![The Training menu](/_astro/training-management-1.De4KVLT2_Z5AsmU.webp) _The Training menu, with its two levels: courses and editions._

A course with no editions is a declared need that has not been met yet. Its recipients stay in the **New** status until an edition is recorded or a past certificate is registered — see [Statuses](/scheduler-and-notifications/statuses).

## Base course and refresher

[Section titled “Base course and refresher”](#base-course-and-refresher)

A course declares how it is structured over time:

-   **Base and update** — a first base edition, followed by refresher editions repeated over the years. You can set the duration of each separately.
-   **Single** — one edition that is not repeated.

This is what distinguishes training from the other action types: the obligation is not a single event but a cycle of first delivery and periodic refreshers, and the two have different durations and often different contents.

## The certificate

[Section titled “The certificate”](#the-certificate)

The certificate attests attendance and the skill acquired, and carries the expiry from which the renewal is calculated. A worker may also hold certificates issued by third parties: these can be made to count towards a company course, so their expiry is tracked alongside the others — see [Link an external certificate](/prevention-and-protection/link-external-certificates).

## What to do here

[Section titled “What to do here”](#what-to-do-here)

The procedures are the common ones: [create the course](/prevention-and-protection/create-an-action) · [add the recipients](/prevention-and-protection/add-recipients) · [schedule an edition](/prevention-and-protection/schedule-a-session) · [enrol the participants](/prevention-and-protection/enrol-recipients) · [record the outcome](/prevention-and-protection/record-the-outcome) · [issue the certificates](/prevention-and-protection/issue-a-certificate).

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