NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award

Introduction

A practical qualification that provides a best-practice introduction to health and safety in an understandable and accessible way.

This course is delivered in partnership with Oak Tree Management & Training Ltd.

Who should attend?

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

• Those training young people in a working environment

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

Key learning objectives

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award looks at everyday solutions for general workplace health and safety issues. Delegates will gain knowledge and practical health and safety skills. This will enable them 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

This qualification will help delegates 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

Advantages for employers

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award can help organisations 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 organisation from the reputational damage caused by health and safety failures

What's included

After completing the course, you will be asked to complete a workplace health and safety review which:

• Considers how health and safety is managed, and how it could be done 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, legal and financial reasons

This assessment is designed to test your ability to put into practice what you have learnt during your course.

Training from LRQA

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