NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award

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.

It provides a valuable overview, which can act as a sound basis for further study.

This course will be especially beneficial to managers, team leaders, supervisors and those that train workers.

It can also be a great course for lone workers who will need to identify hazards and evaluate risks in a variety of working environments.

This course makes a great step for anyone who may want to build up their understanding of health and safety prior to taking a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.

For employers, this course can help your staff to not only understand what health and safety hazards are in the workplace, but why it is important to manage health and safety, and the role that they play within the organisation.

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award can help you to:

• Reduce incident and injury rates, and the associated lost time and absence
• Foster greater health and safety awareness amongst employees
• Improve employee engagement and enhance safety culture
• Secure higher levels of compliance with organisational safety measures
• Protect the business from the reputational damage caused by health and safety failures.

Being able to recognise common hazards and make suggestions for control measures that are appropriate to the nature of the hazard is an invaluable skill for any manager, team leader, supervisor or worker to have.

This course is an ideal first step for staff to develop knowledge of health and safety, and can help you to develop new health and safety managers from within your organisation.

The knowledge and skills developed during this course can make a difference when it comes to improving the safety of the workplace. Health and safety management reduces incidents, accidents, lost time and keep the organisation working safely and effectively.

This training course is designed to enable learners to:

• Help to implement or maintain health and safety with an understanding of common workplace risks
• Understand why health and safety needs to be managed and how this can be done effectively,  ensuring effective processes are in place
• Perform workplace inspections,  recognising common hazards, evaluating risk, recommending controls measures and assigning actions
• Make recommendations for reducing risk and implementing further control measures
• Understand why incidents happen, how to investigate them and learn from mistakes

The course is broken down into four units:

• Why and how you manage health and safety – Understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring that effective processes are in place
• Dealing with common workplace hazards – Inspecting the workplace, recognising hazards, evaluating risks, recommending further controls
• Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
• Learning from incidents – Understanding why incidents happen and how to investigate them

This course has one assessment, HSA1, the aim of this assessment is to provide you with an opportunity to apply the knowledge and understanding that you have gained through your study of this course.

In this assessment you will be required to carry out a health and safety review of your workplace which considers how health and safety is currently managed, and how it can be managed better. Your assessment will also identify health and safety issues present in the workplace, and you will need to make judgements on how they are controlled and if the risk can be reduced.

The assessment should take you around 3 hours to complete.

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award is delivered over 3 days.

This qualification has a minimum of 18 taught hours, two hours of self-study and a recommendation of three hours for the assessment.

This course is supported by a NEBOSH Study Guide, which covers the course syllabus and content in detail.

The course book looks at why it’s important to manage health and safety in the workplace and the effective processes required. Common workplace hazards and controls are discussed, as well as understanding why incidents happen and how to investigate them. As well as a helpful aid to your studies, this book can also be used as a useful reference tool and practical guide for those looking to improve levels of wellbeing in their own workplace.

The NEBOSH Study Guide is available as both a hardcopy and an e-book for all learners taking the course.

We run a range of NEBOSH one-day courses, designed to give you an understanding of a single topic, such as Managing Risks and Risk Assessment at work, Introduction to Incident Investigation and Environmental Awareness at Work. They are great bitesize courses to introduce you to each topic, which could then be further specialised in the Certificate or Diploma range.