NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award
This course book looks at why it’s important to manage health and safety in the workplace and the effective processes required. Common workplace hazards and controls are discussed, as well as understanding why incidents happen and how to investigate them.
Who is the qualification designed for?
The qualification is designed for anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job; this would include team leaders and supervisors, HR professionals, facilities managers and those training young people in a working environment. Many people take the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award as a first step in a career in health and safety. It gives a valuable overview, and is a sound basis for further professional study.
Benefits for you
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award looks at everyday solutions for general workplace health and safety issues. When you have completed the qualification, you will be able to:
- understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place;
- inspect the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures and assigning actions; and
- understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them.
Benefits for your employer
When you achieve the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award, you will be a great asset to your employer. You will be able to help implement or maintain a health and safety management system by having an awareness of common workplace hazards. It will also ensure you can apply the principles of risk assessment and understand how to control common workplace hazards. This knowledge can help reduce the number of accidents in the workplace, improving staff morale, and resulting in costs saving for the organisation.
This course can be delivered within an organisation, or by accredited training courses run throughout the world by our network of accredited Learning Partners. NEBOSH Learning Partners offer a variety of flexible course formats, so training can be arranged according to business needs; either in-house or at training centres around the globe.
Achieving the qualification
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award has one assessment (see ‘Qualification overview’ for
details on the assessment and the pass standard); you must achieve a ‘Pass’ in the unit to be awarded the qualification.
Resubmitting the assessment
You can resubmit your assessment if you received a ‘Refer’ result. There is no limit on the number of
times you can resubmit, however, you must register and pay the associated registration fee on each
occasion.
Where can I take this course?
This course can be delivered within your organization, or your employees can attend training courses run at our training center. You should plan your study around a minimum of 241 taught hours and approximately 234 hours of private study and background reading.
SSIL have trained more than 2000 health and safety professionals, imparting them NEBOSH International General Certificate and NEBOSH Award in Health and Safety at Work for past more than 3 years
What do I study?
Element 1
Why and how you manage health and safety
- Moral, legal and financial reasons and benefits for managing health and safety
- Managing health and safety consistently well
- Auditing
Element 2
Dealing with common workplace hazards
- General workplace issues
- Violence and aggression
- Work-related stress
- Hazardous chemicals and substances
- Computers
- Substance abuse
- Electricity
- Fire
- Manual handling
- Noise and vibration
- Work equipment
- Work at height
- Workplace transport
Element 3
Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
- inspecting the workplace
- Risk assessment theory
Element 4
Learning from incidents
- Why investigating incidents makes sense
- A simple four-step approach to investigations
When can I enroll?
Any time across the year, enrolment for the course can be done.
What are examination details?
Assessment Type: Practical assessment
Assessment Time: 3 hours (approx.)
Pass mark: 75%
Method of Study: Open, distance learning, eLearning
Our Teaching Facilities Provides:
The fees includes:
- Course Enrollment
- Exam enrollment
- Study books and material
- Face-to-face training
- Qualification Certificate
- Technical Support
- Administrative Support
- British Council Fees
