NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Awardf

The qualification is designed for anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job. 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.

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 manager

• Why and how you manage health and safety
• Dealing with common workplace hazards
• Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
• Learning from incidents

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.

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.

There are no entry requirements for this qualification. It is important that learners have a suitable standard of English language in order to 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.

• Instructor-led (face-to-face or virtual)

• Taught hours: 18 hours
• Self-study: 2 hours
• Assessment: 3 hours (approx.)

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award has one assessment; you must achieve a 'Pass' in the unit to be awarded the qualification.

• 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