Course: NEBOSH Accredited - International General Certificate in Occupational Health & S

Prerequisites

Course Content

Course Details & Elements
Why we should manage workplace health and safety
How health and safety management systems work and what they look like
Managing risk – understanding people and processes
Health and safety monitoring and measuring
 Physical and psychological health
 Musculoskeletal health
 Chemical and biological agents
 General workplace issues
 Work equipment
 Fire
 Electricity

Learning outcomes

•    Justify health and safety improvements using moral, financial and legal arguments
•    Advise on the main duties for health and safety in the workplace and help their organisation manage contractors
•    Work within a health and safety management system, recognising what effective policy, organisational responsibilities and arrangements should look like
•    Positively influence health and safety culture and behaviour to improve performance in their organisation
•    Do a general risk assessment in your workplace – profiling and prioritising risks, inspecting the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures, planning actions
•    Recognise workplace changes that have significant health and safety impacts and effective ways to minimise those impacts
•    Develop basic safe systems of work (including taking account of typical emergencies) 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 – through monitoring, audits and review