Delivered over 3 full-days, learners 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 they 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.
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Description
Key Commitment:
- This programme involves 18 taught hours.
- Delegates are expected to commit 2 hours for self-study.
- Achievement is via a practical assessment for which 3 hours is estimated.
Syllabus:
- Element 1: Why and how you manage health and safety. Learners will be able to understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place.
- Element 2: Dealing with common workplace hazards.
- Element 3: Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen. Learners will be able to inspect the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures and assigning actions.
- Element 4: Learn from incidents. Learners will be able to understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them.
Who Should Attend?
This course will provide employees with an awareness and understanding of the hazards and risks that may be encountered in the workplace. It also provides an awareness of the legal duties placed on both the employer as well as the employee.
Why Should You Attend?
This course is aimed at employees in a supervisory role or line management role, working in any business sector, who require an understanding of the essentials of health and safety.
Assessment:
Learners will be expected to carry out a workplace health and safety review which:
- Considers how health and safety is currently managed, and how it can be managed better
- Identifies health and safety issues present, how they are controlled, and if the risk can be reduced
- Selects the most important issue for improvement using moral, legal and financial reasons.
Progression
For those in a significant health and safety role, the NEBOSH General Certificate offers a deep dive and wider syllabus.
