NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award

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.

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. 

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.

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.

It is important that learners have a suitable standard of English language in order to understand and articulate the concepts contained in the syllabus.

NEBOSH recommends that learners undertaking this qualification should reach a minimum standard of English equivalent to an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 5.0 or higher in IELTS tests.

The NEBOSH Health & Safety at Work Award is delivered in a classroom learning environment.