NEBOSH Health and Safety At Work Award

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.

Course Content:

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

Benefits For Learners:

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.