NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

The NEBOSH National General Certificate is one of the UK’s most popular health and safety qualifications. It is designed to reflect the 
needs of today’s employer, giving you everything you need to know and do to make your workplace safer. You will explore the main legal 
requirements for safety in the UK, as well as a range of workplace hazards, and methods of control.

Course Content

The content in this course has been designed to focus on skills needed to manage safely, you will be covering…

› Element 1 - Why we should manage workplace health and safety
› Element 2 - How health and safety management systems work and what they look like
› Element 3 - Managing risk – understanding people and processes
› Element 4 - Health and safety monitoring and measuring
› Element 5 - Physical and psychological health
› Element 6 - Musculoskeletal health
› Element 7 - Chemical and biological agents
› Element 8 - General workplace issues
› Element 9 - Work equipment
› Element 10 - Fire
› Element 11 - Electricity

Course Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to... 

› Justify H&S improvements using moral, financial, and legal arguments
› Advise on the main duties for H&S in the workplace
› Help your organisation manage contractors
› Work within a H&S management system, recognising what effective policy, organisation and arrangements look like
› Positively influence H&S culture and behaviour to improve organisation performance
› Do a general risk assessment in your workplace
› Recognise workplace changes that have significant health and safety impacts and ways to minimise them
› Develop basic safe systems of work and knowing when to use permit-to-work systems for special risks
› Take part in incident investigations
› Help your employer to check their management system effectiveness

Assessment and Implementation

Assessment is a two-step process:
› A question paper to assess your knoweldge (2 hours)
› A practical risk assessment to assess application