NEBOSH Training Course

• 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
• General workplace issues
• Work equipment
• Fire
• Electricity

Training Course Content

The contents of the NEBOSH International General Certificate training course are covered in two units and their applications are practiced and tested in the third unit:

 UNIT IGC 1: Management of International Health & Safety

• Foundations in health and safety
• Health and safety management systems 1 – Plan
• Health and safety management systems 2 – Do
• Health and safety management systems 3 – Check
• Health and safety management systems 4 – Act

UNIT IGC 2: Control of International Workplace Risks

• Workplace hazards and risk control
• Transport hazards and risk control
• Musculoskeletal hazards and risk control
• Work equipment hazards and risk control
• Electrical safety
• Fire safety
• Chemical and biological health hazards and risk control
• Physical and psychological health hazards and risk control

UNIT IGC3: International Health & Safety Practical Application

Learners will be better able to influence their on-site colleagues to work more safely; because they will gain the confidence and technical know-how to challenge unsafe behaviors and offer practical solutions.

• CDM roles and responsibilities
• Health and safety culture
• Assessing risk
• Managing change
• Excavation
• Demolition
• Mobile plant and vehicles
• Working at height.

With an emphasis on practical application, successful learners will be able to:

• Recognize, assess and control a range of common construction hazards
• Develop safe systems of work
• Take part in incident investigations
• Advise on the roles, competencies and duties under construction legislation
• Positively influence health and safety culture
• Confidently challenge unsafe behaviors
• Help manage contractors.

NEBOSH Health and Safety Management for Construction (International) is ideal for:

• Construction site managers
• Contracts managers
• Site workers with health and safety responsibilities
• Construction health and safety advisors

NEBOSH Health and Safety Management for Construction (International) can help to:

• Minimize workplace injuries and illness
• Boost employee wellbeing
• Demonstrate your commitment to health and safety, which can help win business
• Provide knowledge on how to control a range of construction hazards
• Strengthen your health and safety culture

The NEBOSH IIRSM Certificate in Managing Risk is a perfect choice for anyone who wants to be able to identify, evaluate, and manage risks and understand their impacts for an organisation. It will help you develop risk management skills that can be used in any organisation, industry, and job, anywhere in the world!

This qualification is particularly relevant for risk professionals looking to gain a broader view of risk beyond a specialism such as health and safety, quality, or business continuity.

 You will learn:

• the principles of risk and risk management
• the risk management process and framework based on ISO 31000
• the relationship between psychology and decision-making
• how to analyze the environment in which an organization operates, identifying potential risks and opportunities
• the relationship between risk management, business continuity, crisis management and organizational resilience.

Process safety leadership

• Process safety management meaning
• Process safety leadership
• Organisational learning
• Management of change
• Worker engagement
• Competence

Management of process risk

• Establishing a process safety management system
• Risk management techniques used within the process industries
• Asset management and maintenance strategies
• Role and purpose and features of a permit-to-work system
• Safe shift handover
• Contractor management

Process safety hazard control:

• Operating procedures
• Safe start-up and shut-down
• Safety critical performance standards
• Utilities
• Electricity and static electricity
• Dangerous substances
• Reaction hazards
• Bulk storage operations

Fire and explosion protection:

• Fire and explosion hazards
• Fire and explosion control
• Dust explosions
• Emergency preparedness

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence has been designed to help you become a better advocate of health and safety in your business. The course content covers the following topics:

• What health and safety leadership means?
• The moral, legal and business reasons for good health and safety leadership,
• The links between health and safety leadership and culture,
• What the different leadership styles are,
• How human failures can impact performance and culture,
• The HSE’s model of effective health and safety leadership,
• How leaders can build effective relationships with the workforce.

The foundations of health and safety leadership

• • Reasons for health and safety leadership, organizational health and safety vision and business benefits of excellent health and safety leadership
  • The moral, legal and business reasons for good health and safety leadership
  • Leadership team assurance
  • The influence of good health and safety leadership on health and safety culture (with reference to Element 2.1)

Human failure and decision making:

• • The influence of human failure on culture
  • Decision making process, mental short cuts, biases and habits

Leadership:

• • Leadership styles
  • leadership values and supporting foundations
  • Building relationships with the workforce

The NEBOSH Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety covers one main unit (IOG1) entitled ‘Management of international oil and gas operational safety’.

The key topics covered by the qualification are:

• Hazards inherent in the extraction, storage and processing of raw materials and products
• Hydrocarbon process safety
• Risk management techniques used in the oil and gas industries
• Contractor management
• Fire and explosion controls in the oil and gas industries
• Marine and Land logistics

This unit is divided into the following five key elements:

Health, safety and environmental management in context

• Learning from incidents
• Hazards inherent in oil and gas
• Risk management techniques used in the oil and gas industries
• An organisation’s documented evidence to provide a convincing and valid argument that a system is adequately safe

Hydrocarbon process safety (1)

• Contractor management
• Process Safety Management (PSM)
• Role and purpose of a permit-to-work system
• Key principles of safe shift handover
• Plant operations and maintenance
• Start up and shut down

Hydrocarbon process safety (2)

• Failure modes
• Other types of failures
• Safety critical equipment controls
• Safe containment of hydrocarbons
• Fire hazards, risks and controls
• Furnace and boiler operations

Fire protection and emergency response

• Fire and explosion in the oil and gas industries
• Emergency response

Logistics and transport operations

• Marine transport
• Land transport

This qualification helps you understand how to manage environmental issues and this knowledge can be applied in workplaces anywhere in the world.

On completion of the qualification, you will be able to:

• understand a range of environmental issues so that you can improve environmental performance and reduce harm
• work within an environmental management system and contribute to continual improvement
• recognize environmental aspects and associated impacts, and evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls
• support decision-making with ethical, legal and financial arguments
• understand the links between your organization’s activities and wider environmental issues.

Foundations in environmental management

• The scope and nature of environmental management
• The ethical, legal and financial reasons for maintaining and promoting environmental management
• Supporting sustainable development
• The role of national governments and international bodies in formulating a framework for the regulation of environmental management

Environmental management systems:

• Reasons for implementing an environmental management system (EMS)
• The key features and appropriate content of an effective EMS (based on the requirements of ISO 14001)
• Benefits and limitations of introducing a formal EMS into the workplace

Assessing environmental aspects and impacts:

• Reasons for carrying out environmental aspect and impact assessments
• Types of environmental impact
• Nature and key sources of environmental information
• Identification of environmental aspects and associated impacts

Planning for and dealing with environmental emergencies:

• The importance of environmental emergency planning
• Emergency preparedness and response

Control of emissions to air:

• Air quality standards
• Main types of emissions to atmosphere
• Control measures to reduce emissions

Control of environmental noise:

• Sources and effects of environmental noise
• Methods for the control of environmental noise

Control of contamination of water sources:

• Importance of the quality of water for life
• Main sources of water pollution
• Main control measures that are available to reduce contamination of water sources

Control of waste and land use:

• Waste types
• Minimising waste
• Managing waste
• Outlets available for waste
• Risks associated with contaminated land

Sources and use of energy and energy efficiency:

• Use of fossil fuels
• Renewable sources of energy
• Energy efficiency

This relevant and respected fire safety qualification will help you to:

• Gain a solid technical foundation to build on through practical application and experience
• Positively influence fire safety behaviours and improve fire safety culture
• Learn fire safety techniques that are based on global best practice
• Provide valuable in-house fire safety expertise for you workplace
• Advance your career by gaining specialist fire safety knowledge
• Avoid the damaging and sometimes catastrophic losses that result from fire.

Managing fire safety:

• Moral and financial reasons for managing fire safety
• The role of national governments and international bodies in developing frameworks for the regulation of fire safety

Principles of fire and explosion:

• The principles of combustion, fire growth and fire spread
• The ignition of solids, liquids and gases
• Explosion and explosive combustion

Fuel, oxygen and ignition sources and control measures

Sources of fuel, oxygen and ignition sources

Appropriate control measures to minimize fire and explosion risks

Fire protection of buildings:

• The means of fire protection and prevention
• Means of escape
• The methods and systems available to give early warning of fire
• Classification of fires, extinguishing media and portable fire-fighting equipment
• The method of operation and maintenance of fixed installation systems
• Requirements for ensuring access for the fire service is provided and maintained

Safety of people in the event of fire:

• Fire emergency plan
• Fire evacuation
• Behaviours of people in the event of a fire
• Appropriate training requirements

Fire safety risk assessment:

• Objectives of fire safety risk assessments
• Principles and practice of fire safety risk assessments
• Matters to be considered in a risk assessment of substances capable of forming a flammable or explosive atmosphere

 The qualification will help you to:

• Explain the importance of reducing risks associated with manual handling activities
• Understand responsibilities in relation to manual handling
• Explain what manual handling risks are and how they may result in injury
• Demonstrate and practice appropriate manual handling risk assessment technique
• Apply wider elements of risk management for manual handling.
• Principles of manual handling:
• Basic definitions
• Spinal anatomy

Managing manual handling risk: Identification of risk factors:

The hierarchy of measures to be adopted to reduce the risks from manual handling

Managing manual handling risk: Control of risk:

• Reduction or removal of manual handling risk with the adoption of mechanical lifting aids

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Managing Stress at Work aims to help you understand the key principles of work-related stress and its relationship to mental ill health issues. Beyond this you will learn:

• How to recognize the causes and effects of workplace stress
• The responsibilities of employers and individual roles in managing workplace stress
• How to apply the HSE’s Management Standards approach to assess stress risks in the workplace?
• How to develop suitable interventions to address stressors, reduce negative impacts, and manage the effects of stress in the workplace
• Ways to continually improve your organization and create a great place to work

Key principles:

• Common terms
• Key statistics
• Signs of stress
• UK Legislation

Identification of risk:

• An organisational approach to the management of work-related stress
• key workplace stressors (The HSE Management Standards 2004)

Implementing interventions:

• Levels of intervention
• Characteristics of an effective personal action plan
• Creating a great place to work

The qualification is divided into two units, each of which is assessed separately:

Unit ED1: Controlling environmental aspects

Unit NDEM2: Environmental Regulation

Unit ED1: Controlling environmental aspects:

1. Key environmental cycles and the effects of human activity on the environment
2. Environmental
3. Environmental management systems and emergency planning
4. Environmental risk evaluation and control
5. Environmental performance evaluation
6. Sustainability
7. Waste management
8. Managing emissions to the atmosphere
9. Managing emissions to controlled waters
10. Control of environmental noise
11. Hazardous substances and contaminated land
12. Energy use

Unit NDEM2: Environmental regulation

Enforcement of environmental legislation

• Pollution prevention and control
• Powers of inspectors, different types of enforcement action
• Civil liability:
• Duties owed and defences in common law
• Legal principles of civil action and decided cases

Pollution prevention and control legislation:

• Role and purpose of environmental permitting in relation to the control of environmental pollution
• Legal requirements for waste management
• Legal requirements for managing emissions to the atmosphere
• Legal requirements for the prevention and control of discharges to, or abstraction from, controlled waters
• Requirements applying to environmental noise and nuisance
• Legal requirements affecting the storage, use and transportation of hazardous substances
• Legal requirements relating to contaminated land and pesticides
• Relevant legal requirements relating to energy usage.

The qualification is divided into two units, each of which is assessed separately:

• Unit ED1: Controlling environmental aspects
• Unit IDEM2: Environmental Regulation
• Unit ED1: Controlling environmental aspects:

1. Key environmental cycles and the effects of human activity on the environment
2. Environmental Leadership
3. Environmental management systems and emergency planning
4. Environmental risk evaluation and control
5. Environmental performance evaluation
6. Sustainability
7. Waste management
8. Managing emissions to the atmosphere
9. Managing emissions to controlled waters
10. Control of environmental noise
11. Hazardous substances and contaminated land
12. Energy use

Unit IDEM2: Environmental regulation

Enforcement of environmental legislation

• Enforcement of environmental law
• Role and influence of the United Nations

Pollution prevention and control multilateral treaties:

 This element will cover the main multilateral treaties relating to various sources of pollution:

• Explain the relevant international statutory instruments relating to waste management
• Explain the relevant international statutory instruments for managing emissions to the atmosphere.
• Explain the relevant international statutory instruments for the prevention and control of discharges to, or abstraction from, watercourses
• Explain the relevant international statutory instruments affecting the storage, use and transport of hazardous substances
• Explain the relevant international statutory instruments relating to contaminated land and pesticides.
• Explain the relevant international statutory instruments relating to energy usage