EV and Lithium Battery Safety Awareness
Understand how electric vehicles and lithium batteries behave so you can work around them with confidence.
Start Course Now →Electric vehicles and battery-powered equipment are turning up in more workplaces, and the hazards they bring are easy to underestimate. This beginner course gives you a plain, practical grounding in how EV systems and lithium batteries work, where the risks lie, and what sensible precautions look like. It is for workers and organisations who may encounter EVs or battery kit and want to handle them safely.
Walk out able to actually help.
You can identify the main components of EV systems and the everyday hazards of lithium-ion batteries.
You understand charging-related risks and can tell when a battery is damaged or malfunctioning.
You know the basic emergency response steps, including awareness of thermal runaway.
You can apply everyday workplace practices that lower the chance of a battery or EV incident.
Built around the moment it matters.
Introduction to Electric Vehicles and Lithium Batteries
Covers EV basics and key components, plus the safety standards and features built into modern vehicles.
Lithium Battery Hazards and Charging-Related Risks
Looks at the hazards of lithium-ion batteries and the common risks that arise during charging.
Responding to Damaged Batteries and Emergency Situations
Shows you how to identify damaged or malfunctioning batteries and follow sound emergency response procedures.
Basic Precautions for Workers and Organisations
Sets out practical workplace practices and the organisational responsibilities and training that support safe handling.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Four guided modules with eight lessons
- Around two hours of learning
- Beginner-friendly, no prior knowledge needed
- Certificate of completion