NEBOSH HSW – English- Health and Safety at Work Award E-learning

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award provides a best practice introduction to workplace health, safety, and risk that is relevant to all industry sectors. This qualification is now available in Arabic, in addition to English.

The course content is delivered in an understandable and accessible way and will help you to:

• gain an awareness of common workplace hazards so you can help to implement or maintain your organisation’s health and safety management system
• gain practical skills that can help keep yourself and others safe
• apply the principles of risk assessment
• have a positive impact on health and safety in your workplace.

This is a replacement qualification for the Health and Safety at Work Qualification.

Who is it for?

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 managers.

It provides a valuable overview, which can act as a sound basis for further study.

Employers

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award can help you to:

• Reduce incident and injury rates, and the associated lost time and absence
• Foster greater health and safety awareness amongst employees
• Improve employee engagement and enhance safety culture
• Secure higher levels of compliance with organisational safety measures
• Protect the business from the reputational damage caused by health and safety failures.

Employers looking for more information on how NEBOSH qualifications can benefit your organisation, can find out more on our NEBOSH Corporate Services page.

Course Details

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award looks at everyday solutions for general workplace health and safety issues.

Through your studies, you will gain knowledge and practical health and safety skills. This will enable you to:

• understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place
• inspect the workplace, recognising common hazards, evaluating risk, recommending controls measures and assigning actions
• understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them.

NEBOSH Learning Partners offer a variety of flexible course formats, including in-company options, so training can be arranged according to business need.

Length of course

This qualification has a minimum of 18 taught hours, two hours of self-study and a recommendation of three hours for the assessment.