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NEBOSH National General Certificate

Developing an Understanding of Health & Safety
Ensuring ongoing health and safety improvements, compliance with your safety policy and other external requirements, is a key issue in any organisation. To fulfil these obligations requires an understanding of the broad issues relating to health and safety; including the legal standards, management methods, workplace hazards and controls, communications and consultation. Therefore non-specialists must have a broad understanding of health and safety requirements, management and methods. The NEBOSH National General Certificate is an ideal course to fulfil this critical business need.

An Overview of the NEBOSH National General Certificate Qualification
The NEBOSH National General Certificate has established itself as a leading award in basic health and safety, with wellover 100,000 having earned it. It has been designed to provide sound underpinning knowledge to enable non-specialists to discharge their duties or functions in workplace health and safety. Such people include, managers, supervisors and employee representatives.

The Messam & Rider Approach
Taught with an exceptionally practical approach, including many group exercises and continuous review and revision, the Messam & Rider Ltd NEBOSH National General Certificate programme, not only prepares the delegate for the NEBOSH examination, but also equips them with the necessary practical understanding and application to fulfil their personal and workplace requirements. Our two week block format is tried and tested, with 100% success rates regularly achieved. The Messam & Rider Ltd. NEBOSH National General Certificate Manual has been designed to give the delegate practical reference material and a complete revision pack for the examination.

The Course outline
The intended learning outcome is detailed in the revised course guide produced by NEBOSH. This is summarised as follows:

NGC1 - The Management of Safety and Health

  • Health and safety foundations
  • Policy
  • Organising for health and safety
  • Promoting a positive health and safety culture
  • Risk assessment
  • Principles of control
  • Monitoring, review and audit
  • Incident investigation, recording and reporting

NGC2 - Controlling Workplace Hazards

  • Movement of people and vehicles - hazards and control
  • Manual and mechanical handling hazards and control
  • Work equipment hazards and controls
  • Electrical hazards and control
  • Fire hazards and control
  • Chemical and biological health hazards and control
  • Physical and physiological hazards and control
  • Construction activities - hazards and control

All of our courses are 10 days in duration. These are available in a 2 week block, or on a day release basis over 9 weeks. However, unit NGC1 is covered in the first 5 days and NGC2 covered in the latter 5 days of each course. This allows for each unit to be studied and examined individually, which means that you can attend the first 5 days of a course and take the NGC1 examination and return on a later course to study NGC2 and take that examination. Providing you are succesful in both examinations and in the Practical Application (see below) within a 5 year period, you can achieve the NEBOSH National General Certificate. Of course you can still study the entire course in one sitting if you wish.

Paper NGC1 - The Management of Health and Safety - 2 hours
Paper NGC2 - Controlling Workplace Hazards - 2 hours

The practical assessment (NGC3) is carried out at the candidate's place of work on completion of the NGC2 unit and must be submitted for assessment within 7 working days of the final examination.

Successful candidates will be awarded the NEBOSH National General Certificate.

This successful course is available throughout the year, in Warwick, Click here for dates and details.

Additionally the course can be offered as an in company programme in any format that suits your requirements.

 

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