The NEBOSH Award in Health & Safety at Work is a NEW course developed by NEBOSH to complement their existing range of qualifications.
This standalone qualification is designed for workers in any sector who want a basic understanding of health and safety and acts as the perfect introduction to a NEBOSH Certificate.
The types of people who would benefit from this qualification include:
• Team leaders and supervisors
• HR professionals
• Facilities managers
• Those working with young people in a training environment
What you will study
Unit HSW1: Workplace Safety Foundations
• The Foundations of Health and Safety
• The Responsibility for Health and Safety
• Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Control
• Hazards and Controls Associated with Work Equipment
• Transport Safety
• Hazards and Controls Associated with Working with Electricity
• Fire Safety
• Hazards and Controls Associated with Manual Handling and Repetitive Movement
• Hazards and Controls Associated with Hazardous Substances
• Hazards and Controls Associated with the Working Environment
Unit HSW2: Practical Application
• The completion of a short risk assessment activity.
Recommended hours of study: 24 hours
Assessment:
The assessment consists of one multiple-choice examination for HSW1 and a short risk assessment activity for HSW2.
This NEBOSH Award is designed to provide process operators and technicians with an understanding of health, safety and environmental management within the process industries. If you work (or want to work) in industries like chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and food processing, then this course could be for you. It also provides a perfect introduction to a NEBOSH Certificate.
What you will study
Unit HSEP1: Health, Safety and Environment for the Process Industries
• The Foundations of Health and Safety
• The Responsibility for Health and Safety
• Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Control
• Hazards and Controls Associated with Work Equipment, Working with Electricity, Manual Handling and
Repetitive Movement, Hazardous Substances, the Working Environment.
• Transport Safety
• Fire Safety
• The Foundations of Process Safety
• Systems to Prevent Loss of Containment
• Common Hazards, Risks and Controls in the Chemical Industry
• Plant Integrity
• Emergency Response
• Foundations in Environmental Management
• Control of Emissions
• Environmental Risk Assessments (Impact Assessment)
Recommended hours of study: 44 hours
Assessment:
The assessment consists of one multiple-choice examination.
a) Award in Safety, Health & Environment for the Process Industries
This NEBOSH Award is designed to provide process operators and technicians with an understanding of health, safety and environmental management within the process industries. If you work (or want to work) in industries like chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and food processing, then this course could be for you. It also provides a perfect introduction to a NEBOSH Certificate.
What you will study
Unit HSEP1: Health, Safety and Environment for the Process Industries
- The Foundations of Health and Safety
- The Responsibility for Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Control
- Hazards and Controls Associated with Work Equipment, Working with Electricity, Manual Handling and Repetitive Movement, Hazardous Substances, the Working Environment.
- Transport Safety
- Fire Safety
- The Foundations of Process Safety
- Systems to Prevent Loss of Containment
- Common Hazards, Risks and Controls in the Chemical Industry
- Plant Integrity
- Emergency Response
- Foundations in Environmental Management
- Control of Emissions
- Environmental Risk Assessments (Impact Assessment)
Recommended hours of study: 44 hours
Assessment:
The assessment consists of one multiple-choice examination.
The NEBOSH HSE award in Incident Investigation course is designed to enable learners to carry out accident investigations, produce risk control plans and contribute to team accident/incident investigations for large-scale investigations. It is aimed at managers, supervisors, SHE champions, union representatives and aspiring health and safety practitioners.
The NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation course provides an excellent introduction
Choose how you study: Online, Classroom or In-Company
Benefits of Achieving the NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation
- Provides confidence to handle workplace incident/accident investigations effectively
- Provides an excellent foundation for further NEBOSH qualification
The NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation consists of one unit which must be successfully completed within six months to achieve the NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation. The course covers:
- Moral, legal and financial arguments for investigations
- Human and organisational factors
- Investigating accidents and incidents
- Positive strategies and the barriers to successful interviews
- Advanced accident/incident investigation techniques
The course is assessed by a one-hour evidence based action plan activity which is undertaken during the course.
The NEBOSH Safety Simplified is the perfect course for anybody who needs a solid introduction to health & safety and risk assessment.
The NEBOSH Safety Simplified course provides the knowledge, understanding and practical skills to help to reduce the personal, organisational and financial cost of accidents, incidents and work-related ill-health.
Benefits of achieving the NEBOSH Safety Simplified Qualification
- NEBOSH Awards are valued by employers – both in the UK and internationally
- Provides confidence to handle workplace hazards effectively
- Provides an excellent foundation for further NEBOSH qualifications
The Safety Simplified course consists of 5 elements:
- Making the case for health and safety
- Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
- Stopping incidents from repeating themselves
- Dealing with common workplace hazards
- Keeping an eye on how things are going
Assessment:
NEBOSH Safely Simplified is assessed by a 30 minute multiple choice examination.
The NEBOSH HSE Award in Managing Risks and Risk Assessment at Work course is an introductory level qualification designed to develop straightforward, practical health and safety risk management skills to enable learners to go beyond risk assessment and help effectively control the health and safety risks caused by hazards in the workplace.
Benefits of Achieving the NEBOSH HSE Managing Risk and Risk Assessment Qualification
- Develops straightforward practical skills to manage workplace risks
- Build confidence in learners risk assessment capabilities
- Contributes to the creation of a safer and healthier workplace
On completion of the NEBOSH HSE Award in Managing Risks and Risk Assessment at Work qualification learners will:
- Understand that risk management is about taking practical steps to protect people from real harm and suffering rather than a bureaucratic back covering exercise.
- Understand how to identify hazards that may need controlling and the resources that can be used to assist in this.
- Be able to use simple, HSE tools and methods to confidently manage risk in a low to medium risk premises
- Evaluate risks in a proportionate and sensible manner.
The course consists of one unit which covers:
- Why manage health and safety risks
- Managing risk: Identifying and understanding the risks
- Managing risk: Controlling the risks
- Managing risk: Sources of information and the application of HSE risk assessment tools
Assessment
The course is assessed by practical assessment, completed at the end of the course. After watching a video of a real workplace learners will complete a risk assessment to identify how they would manage and prioritise the risks present.
The NEBOSH Working With Wellbeing course is an introductory level qualification that looks at workplace wellbeing at both an individual and organisational level. It is designed for those who wish to gain a greater understanding of workplace wellbeing and the factors which affect it, including people that work in human resources, health and safety, occupational health or anyone with people management responsibilities.
Benefits of Achieving the NEBOSH Working with Wellbeing
- Provides understanding of what wellbeing is and why it matters
- Provides understanding of how wellbeing can be improved
- Enables intervention to improve wellbeing in your workplace
The NEBOSH Working With Wellbeing Qualification consists of one unit which must be successfully completed within six months to achieve the qualification. The course covers:
Foundations of Wellbeing – What it means and why it matters
The Branches of Wellbeing; benefits and what this means in practice – Interaction, exercise, mindfulness, nutrition, kindness, learning
Interventions in the Workplace – Planning & measuring their effectiveness
The course is assessed through the development of an effective intervention plan to improve wellbeing in the workplace which will take around one-hour to complete.