NEBOSH Health & Safety at Work

Course details

This introductory qualification provides a basic understanding of the management of health and safety. It aims to improve the safety culture in your organisation, by equipping your workforce to identify and deal with hazards at work. Thus, helping to reduce accidents and achieving cost savings for the business. The qualification is designed to meet the needs of an international audience.

Who Should Attend
This Qualification is for everyone! It is suitable for personnel of all levels within an organisation across all industry sectors who need to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their ;

Benefits
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Qualification proves that you have an essential skill for the modern workplace. This is an ideal first step towards other higher level NEBOSH qualifications. Organisations who seek to implement a basic health and safety training program, thereby ensure employees have an understanding of the principles of risk control so as to reduce the number of accidents and incidents resulting in cost saving for the business.

Course Contents
Unit HSW1 Workplace safety foundations

• Foundations of health and safety
• Responsibility for health and safety
• Health and safety risk assessment and control
• Work Equipment health and safety
• Transport safety
• Electrical safety
• Fire Safety
• Health & safety during manual handling & repetitive activities
• Hazardous substances
• Health and safety in the working environment

Unit HSW2 Workplace risk assessment
Unit HSW2 is the workplace-based risk assessment activity

How is it assessed?
The course is assessed through a multiple choice examination and a practical risk assessment.

After successful completion of the assessment you will attain the NEBOSH Award in Health and Safety at Work ; Updated on 16 August, 2019