Nebosh Award in Health and Safety at Work Course
Duration: 3 days lectures plus Assessment
Overview:
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award provides a best practice introduction to workplace health, safety, ad risk that is relevant to all industry sectors.
This NEBOSH Award will help improve the safety culture in your organisation. It will equip your workforce to identify and deal with hazards at work, thus helping to reduce accidents and achieve cost savings for the business. It is also an ideal first step towards other higher-level NEBOSH qualifications including the NEBOSH National General Certificate.
This introductory qualification is aimed at anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job. This may be:
- Team leaders and supervisors
- HR professionals
- Facilities managers
- Those working with young people in a training environment
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award looks at everyday solutions for general workplace health and safety issues.
Content:
Through your studies, you will gain knowledge and practical health and safety skills. This will enable you to:
understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place
inspect the workplace, recognising common hazards, evaluating risk,recommending controls measures and assigning actions
- understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them
Assessment:
After completing the course, you will be asked to complete a workplace health and safety review which:
- Considers how health and safety is managed, and how it could be done better
- Identifies health and safety issues, how they are controlled and if the risk can be reduced
- Select the most important issue for improvement
- This assessment is designed to test your ability to put into practice what you have learnt and, as it is carried out in the workplace, can add instant value to your organisation
Once you have achieved a pass, a qualification parchment will be issued within 20 working days of the confirmation of the successful unit.
This course is CITB approved and grant aid may be available for those companies registered with CITB or Invest Northern Ireland.
Next available courses:
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