HEALTH & SAFETY
NEBOSH International Certificate
Duration
Flexible
Start Dates
Flexible
Fees
International £ Price On Application
Attendance
Delivery
Face2Face | Online | Blended
Flexible
Entry Requirements
Minimum of 18 years
Academic
2 x ‘A’ Level qualifications passes (E Grade) or
vocational equivalent at BTEC National Diploma (Pass)
IELTS 5.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all skill areas) or equivalent.
Students with significant relevant work experience can also be considered.
Student Satisfaction
95% of Our students would recommend IBCM / IBCM Student Survey 2022
Awarding Body
NEBOSH
UCAS Course Code
N/A
Course Overview
This qualification is designed for Health & Safety professionals and those seeking a career in Health & Safety. The NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (IGC) is one of the leading health and safety qualifications around the world. It helps develop your understanding of general workplace issues and how they can be applied in different sectors around the world.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Justify health and safety improvements using moral, financial and legal arguments
- Advise on the main duties for health and safety in the workplace and help their organisation manage contractors
- Work within a health and safety management system, recognising what effective policy, organisational responsibilities and arrangements should look like
- Positively influence health and safety culture and behaviour to improve performance in their organisation
- Do a general risk assessment in their own workplace – profiling and prioritising risks, inspecting the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures, planning actions
- Recognise workplace changes that have significant health and safety impacts and effective ways to minimise those impacts
- Develop basic safe systems of work (including taking account of typical emergencies) and knowing when to use permit-to-work systems for special risks
- Take part in incident investigations
- Help their employer to check their management system effectiveness – through monitoring, audits and reviews
SYLLABUS
Unit IG1: Management of Health & Safety
Element 1: Why we should manage workplace health and safety
- Discuss the moral, financial and legal reasons for managing health and safety in the workplace
- Explain how health and safety is regulated and the consequences of non-compliance
- Summarise the main health and safety duties of different groups of people at work and explain how contractors should be selected, monitored and managed
Element 2: How health and safety management systems work and what they look like
- Give an overview of the elements of a health and safety management system and the benefits of having a formal/certified system
- Discuss the main ingredients of health and safety management systems that make it effective – policy, responsibilities, arrangements
Element 3: Managing risk – understanding people and processes
- Describe the concept of health and safety culture and how it influences performance
- Summarise how health and safety culture at work can be improved
- Summarise the human factors which positively or negatively influence behaviour at work in a way that can affect health and safety
- Explain the principles of the risk assessment process
- Discuss typical workplace changes that have significant health and safety impacts and ways to minimise those impacts
- Describe what to consider when developing and implementing a safe system of work for general activities
- Explain the role, function and operation of a permitto-work system
- Discuss typical emergency procedures (including training and testing) and how to decide what level of first aid is needed in the workplace
Element 4: Health and safety monitoring and measuring
- Discuss common methods and indicators used to monitor the effectiveness of management systems
- Explain why and how incidents should be investigated, recorded and reported
- Explain what an audit is and why and how it is used to evaluate a management system
- Explain why and how regular reviews of health and safety performance are needed
Unit IG2: Risk Assessment
For this unit learners must produce a risk assessment of a workplace which considers a wide range of identified hazards (drawn from elements 5-11) and meets best practice standards (‘suitable and sufficient’)
Element 5: Physical and psychological health Element 6: Musculoskeletal health
Element 7: Chemical and biological agents | Element 8: General workplace issues | Element 9: Work equipment | Element 10: Fire | Element 11: Electricity
Unit Assessments
There are two assessments for the NEBOSH International Certificate:
- An online open-book assessment
- A 3-hour practical risk assessment carried out in the workplace to demonstrate the knowledge learned in elements 5-11.
Modules
- Introducing Safety Management
- Assessing risks
- Controlling risks
- Understanding your responsibilities
- Identifying hazards
- Investigating accidents and incidents
- Measuring performance
- Protecting our environment
Academic
2 x ‘A’ Level qualifications passes (E Grade) or vocational equivalent at BTEC National Diploma (Pass) IELTS 5.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all skill areas) or equivalent.
Students with significant relevant work experience can also be considered.
You will be taught at our Central Manchester location and will attend three terms each year. You will attend classes 3 days a week, averaging 15 hours a week. Your classes will be scheduled Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm and you will experience a variety of teaching methods. Most modules are delivered through lectures, seminars and workshops.
- Lectures provide a broad outline structure for each topic to be covered. Lectures offer a good way of covering a lot of information and, more importantly, of conveying ideas to many people at once.
- Seminars enable you to complete directed self-study and to answer questions and solve problems which are set by the lecturer. You will discuss your answers and solutions within the seminar group. Seminars will enable you to explore further the topics introduced in the lectures.
- Workshops follow on from lectures and seminars. They are designed to enable you to work within a small group to perform set tasks (e.g. working on an exercise or case study).
Assessment
To achieve each module you will have to demonstrate competence in each of the relevant learning outcomes identified above. Assessment may take the form of a completed written assignment or report, a project, or a presentation (or combination of any of the above). Some group work may take place, although you will always be assessed on an individual basis.
You will be given formative assessment early on in each module to enable you to identify where your strengths are and which areas you need to develop in order to be successful.
You will then be assessed at the end of each module against the required Learning outcomes. All assessments go through our own Internal Quality Assurance process to ensure that they meet the highest possible standards and give you every opportunity to achieve (see IBCM Assessment and Verification Policy)
Students will be awarded a grade of pass, merit or distinction for each module and an overall grade at the end of the qualification.
All of our assessment and internal quality procedures are regularly monitored and an Assessment Board will be held at the end of each term to verify all decisions made as well as to investigate any issues of concern.
Should you not meet the learning outcomes on your first submission, you will be given one opportunity for a resubmission. You may also be given the opportunity to resubmit in order to obtain a higher grade. If, at the resubmission, you still do not meet the required outcomes, one opportunity to retake the unit can be authorised. This unit can then receive a maximum pass grade.
If a unit is still not passed at this stage it is deemed to have failed. Your assessor will discuss the options with you, such as an alternative unit in the case of optional units, or whether you are able to study the core module again (repeat). See IBCM Assignment submission procedure. Full attendance at lessons for the repeated module is required along with appropriate payment.
There are compensation provisions within both the HNC and HND provision in that students can still be awarded the qualification if they have not achieved a pass in one of the 15 credit units completed, but have completed and passed the remaining units.