NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award (Attended)

This course is designed to provide employees with an understanding of the principles of health and safety as part of their job. It is ideally suited to team leaders, supervisors, facility managers, engineering managers, , HR professionals, and essentially anyone who would benefit from a greater understanding and awareness of health and safety at work.

This course will enable learners to gain knowledge and practical health and safety skills 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 control measures and assigning actions
• understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them

The course content is delivered in an understandable and accessible way and will help learners to:

*gain an awareness of common workplace hazards so they can help to implement or maintain their organisations health and safety management system

• gain practical skills that can help keep themselves and others safe
• apply the principles of risk assessment
• have a positive impact on health and safety in their workplace

The benefits to employers include:

• Reduction in incident and injury rates, and the associated lost time and absence
• Instilling greater health and safety awareness amongst employees
• Improvement of employee engagement and enhancement of safety culture
• Securing higher levels of compliance with organisational safety measures�
• Protecting the business from the reputational damage caused by health and safety failures

https://www.nebosh.org.uk/documents/hsa-syllabus-guide-learners/hsa-learner-guide-v2.pdf

There are no entry requirements for this qualification, however, it is important that learners have a suitable standard of English language so they can understand and articulate the concepts contained in the syllabus. NEBOSH recommends that learners undertaking this qualification should reach a minimum standard of English equivalent to an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 5.0 or higher in IELTS tests.

How long is this course?

3 days

When does this course start?

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How many hours / days per week is this course?

The course runs for a total of three days (college attended) with two hours of self-study and three hours allowed for the assessment.

Fee information

Adult (19+) learners

Depending on your age, course, educational history and personal circumstances, there may be options available for you to receive a course fully-funded by the government. Our fee calculator will help give you an idea on whether you'll be able to have your course fee waived or covered by an Advanced Learner Loan.

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Learners with an active Education, Health & Care Plan

If you are aged 19 - 24 at the start of your course and have an active Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP), any course up to and including level 3 will be fully-funded by the government. This means you will not have a course fee to pay and any equipment considered essential to complete your course will be provided by the college.

What qualification will I achieve?

NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Qualification

How is my course assessed?

After completing the course, each learner 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 hazards, how they are controlled and if the risk can be reduced
• Select the most important hazard for improvement.

This assessment is designed to evaluate a learners ability to put into practice what they have learnt and, as it is carried out in the workplace, it can provide instant value to their organisation.

Once a learner has achieved a pass, a NEBOSH certificate will be awarded for this qualification.