The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award is an introductory level qualification that looks at health and safety in the workplace. It is suitable for anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job; this would include team leaders and supervisors, HR professionals, facilities managers and those training young people in a working environment.
NEBOSH offers Vocationally-Related Qualifications (VRQs) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, VRQs are known as ‘Other accredited qualifications.
Generally, for learners wishing to continue their professional development NEBOSH offers a wide range of
internationally recognised qualifications. NEBOSH’s Award and Certificate level qualifications offer the opportunity to
learn specific industry applications – such as process safety, construction, environmental management and leadership –
or hone in on specific skills such as incident investigation.
We have two modes of training delivery
1. Classroom based training
Number of days:3
2. Online based training
Number of days:4
Element No: | Element summary | Learning outcome On completion of this course the learner will be able to: | Assessment criteria |
| 1 | Why and how you manage health and safety | Understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place. | 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, |
| 2 | Dealing with common workplace hazarad | Inspect the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures and assigning action | |
| 3 | Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen | ||
| 4 | Learning from incidents | Understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them. |
To achieve the qualification, learners must complete and pass the Unit HSA1 assessment. This assessment is a workplace health and safety review which should be carried out in the learner’s own Workplace
From the result declaration date, it may take another 20 working days for the delivery of certificate
