NEBOSH National General Certificate In Occupational Health And Safety - United Kingdom

NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety Course Outline

Unit NGC1: Management of Health and Safety

Element 1: Foundations in Health and Safety

• The scope and nature of occupational health and safety
• The moral and financial reasons for promoting good standards of health and safety
• The legal framework for the regulation of health and safety including sources and types of law
• The scope, duties and offences of employers, managers, employees and others under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• The scope, duties and offences of employers, managers, employees and others under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
• The legal and organisational health and safety roles and responsibilities of clients and their contractors

Element 2: Health and Safety Management Systems 1 ­- Policy

• Key elements of a health and safety management system
• Purpose and importance of setting policy for health and safety
• Key features and appropriate content of an effective health and safety policy

Element 3: Health and Safety Management Systems 2 ­- Organising

• Organisational health and safety roles and responsibilities of employers, directors, and managers
• Concept of health and safety culture and its significance in the management of health and safety in an organisation
• Human factors which influence behaviour at work
• How health and safety behaviour at work can be improved
• Emergency procedures and the arrangements for contacting emergency services
• Requirements for, and effective provision of, first-aid in the workplace

Element 4: Health and Safety Management Systems 3 ­- Planning

• Importance of planning
• Principles and practice of risk assessment
• General principles of control and a basic hierarchy of risk reduction measures
• Sources of health and safety information
• Factors that should be considered when developing and implementing a safe system of work for general work activities
• Role and function of a permit-to-work system

Element 5: Health and Safety Management Systems 4 - Measuring, Audit and Review

• Active and reactive monitoring
• Health and safety auditing
• Investigating incidents
• Recording and reporting incidents
• Review of health and safety performance

Unit NGC2: Controlling Workplace Risks

Element 1: Workplace Hazards and Risk Control

• Health, welfare and work environment requirements
• Violence at work
• Substance misuse at work
• Safe movement of people in the workplace
• Working at height
• Excavations

Element 2: Transport Hazards and Risk Control

• Safe movement of vehicles in the workplace
• Driving at work

Element 3: Musculoskeletal Hazards and Risk Control

• Work-related upper limb disorders
• Manual handling hazards, risks and control measures
• Manually operated load handling equipment
• Mechanically operated load handling equipment

Element 4: Work Equipment Hazards and Risk Control

• General requirements for work equipment
• Hand-held tools
• Machinery hazards
• Control measures for reducing risks from machinery hazards

Element 5: Electrical Safety

• Risks associated with electricity
• Control measures

Element 6: Fire Safety

• Fire initiation, classification and spread
• Fire risk assessment
• Fire prevention and prevention of fire spread
• Fire alarm and fire-fighting equipment
• Evacuation of a workplace

Element 7: Chemical and Biological Health Hazards and Risk Control

• Forms of, classification of, and health risks from hazardous substances
• Assessment of health risks
• Workplace exposure limits
• Control measures
• Specific agents
• Safe handling and storage of waste

Element 8: Physical and Psychological Health Hazards and Risk Control

• Noise
• Vibration
• Radiation
• Stress