NEBOSH General Certificate

To introduce industry standard certificate for health and safety practitioners, offering a valuable overview of the core aspects of occupational health and safety. Course comprised of two units, NG1 and NG2 practical unit.

Health and Safety practitioners

• Workplace hazards and offer advice on corrective and preventative measurements
• The scope, duties and offences of employers, managers and employees
• The HASAWA 1974
• The legal framework for the regulation of health and safety including sources and types of law
• How to plan and implement an effective health and safety policy
• How to Influence behaviour to create a positive Health & Safety culture throughout an organisation
• How to undertake risk assessments and accident investigations and recommend suitable action
• How to undertake a health and safety audit
• Hazards and risk control
• Transport hazards and risk control
• Musculoskeletal hazards and risk control
• Work equipment hazards and risk control
• Electrical safety
• Fire safety
• Chemical and biological hazards and risk control
• Physical and psychological hazards and risk control

NG1

• ELEMENT 1: Why We Should Manage Workplace Health and Safety
• ELEMENT 2: How Health and Safety Management Systems Work and What They Look Like
• ELEMENT 3: Managing Risk – Understanding People and Processes
• ELEMENT 4: Health and Safety Monitoring and Measuring

This unit has an Open Book Exam. You would have 24 hours to complete a scenario based exam.

NG2

• ELEMENT 5:Physical and psychological health
• ELEMENT 6: Musculoskeletal health
• ELEMENT 7: Chemical and biological agents
• ELEMENT 8: General workplace issues
• ELEMENT 9: Work equipment
• ELEMENT 10: Fire
• ELEMENT 11: Electricity NG1 UNIT

This unit has a detailed risk assessment to be completed after the course.

Any exam unit re-sits would need to be registered with NEBOSH and this results in an additional cost.