NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award

Description

Who Should Attend?

This introductory qualification is aimed at anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety.

Team leaders, supervisors, HR professionals, Facilities managers or those working with young people in a training environment.

The three day course is the perfect introduction to health and safety. It covers risk assessments and ways to control common workplace hazards such as fire, lifting and carrying, work equipment, electrical safety, hazardous substances and transport. 

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.

Course Content

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.

Download course syllabus here

Prerequisites

It is important that learners have a suitable standard of English language so they can understand and articulate the concepts contained in the syllabus.