NEBOSH Health & Safety Award
NEBOSH Health & Safety Award
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award provides a best practice introduction to workplace health, safety, and risk that is relevant to all industry sectors.
The course content is delivered in an understandable and accessible way and will help you to:
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Gain an awareness of common workplace hazards so you can help to implement or maintain your organisation’s health and safety management system
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Gain practical skills that can help keep yourself and others safe
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Apply the principles of risk assessment
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Have a positive impact on health and safety in your workplace.
Who is the course for?
Anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job will benefit from taking this qualification including: Team leaders and supervisors, HR professionals, Facilities managers. Many people take the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award as a first step in a career in health and safety. It gives a valuable overview, and is a sound basis for further professional study.
Benefits for the Learner:
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award looks at everyday solutions for general workplace health and safety issues. When you have completed the qualification, you will be able to:
• understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place;
• inspect the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures and assigning actions; and
• understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them.
Benefits for the employer:
When you achieve the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award, you will be a great asset to your employer.
You will be able to help implement or maintain a health and safety management system by having an awareness of common workplace hazards. It will also ensure you can apply the principles of risk assessment and understand how to control common workplace hazards. This knowledge can help reduce the number of accidents in the workplace, improving staff morale, and resulting in costs saving for the organisation.
Achieving the qualification
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award has one assessment: This is based on a workplace assessment looking at and identifying health and safety management processes and workplace hazards. You must achieve a ‘Pass’ in the unit to be awarded the qualification. Once you have achieved a Pass a qualification parchment will be issued, within 20 working days of the result declaration date for the unit
Resubmitting the assessment
You can resubmit your assessment if you received a ‘Refer’ result. There is no limit on the number of times you can resubmit, however, you must register and pay the associated registration fee on each occasion. Qualification grading and issue of qualification parchment
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Element summary Assessment criteria
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Why and how you manage health & safety
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Dealing with common workplace hazards
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Stopping incidents & ill-health before they happen
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Stopping incidents & ill-health before they happen
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Learning Outcome - On completion of this course the learner will be able to:
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1. Understand why health & safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place.
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2 & 3. Inspect the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures & assigning actions
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4. Understand why incidents happen & how to investigate them.
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Assessment criteria
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Carry out a workplace health & safety review which:
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Considers how health & safety is currently managed, & how it can be managed better
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Identifies health & safety issues present, how they are controlled, & if the risk can be reduced
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Selects the most important issue for improvement using moral, legal & financial reasons.
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Unit prefix and title Unit HSA1: Health and Safety at Work
Assessment Unit HSA1: Assessment Type: Practical assessment: Time 3 hours (approx.) Pass mark 75%
Notional learning hours: A full-time block release course (minimum of 3 days) Part-time day release (spread over 3 weeks) Open, distance learning, eLearning
Qualification level and number of credits: SCQF Level 5 (equivalent to RQF Level 2) with 2 credits
Entry requirements: None
Recommended minimum standards of English: Equivalent to an International English Language Testing System score of 5.0 or higher in IELTS tests
Languages available: English
Qualification grades: Pass or Refer
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Information on all of Nebosh courses can be found on the Nebosh website at: www.nebosh.org.uk
