course | NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Unit IG1: Management of Health and Safety Element 1:
 

Why We Should Manage Workplace Health and Safety
 

• Welcome Introduction
• Introduction to H&S / Key Terms
• The moral, financial, and legal reasons for managing health and safety in the workplace
• Explain how health and safety are regulated and the consequences of non-compliance
• Summarise the main health and safety duties of different groups of people at work
• Explain how contractors should be selected, monitored, and managed 

Element 2: How Health and Safety Management Systems Work and What They Look Like
 

• Safety Management Systems: What they are and the benefits they bring
• What a good health and safety management system looks like
• Plan – Do – Check – Act
• Responsibilities
• Practical arrangements 

Element 3: Managing Risk – Understanding People and Processes
 

• Health and safety culture
• Improving health and safety culture
• How human factors influence behaviour positively or negatively
• Assessing risk
• Management of change
• Safe systems of work for general work activities
• Permit-to-work systems
• Emergency procedures 

Element 4: Health and Safety Monitoring and Measuring
 

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

Unit IG2: (Health and safety auditing) Element 5:
 

• Review of health and safety performance 

Safe systems of work for general work activities

• Permit-to-work systems
• Emergency procedures 

Element 8: Health and Safety Monitoring and Measuring
 

• Active and reactive monitoring

Safe systems of work for general work activities

• Permit-to-work systems
• Emergency procedures 

Unit IG3: Risk Assessment (Practical Assessment) Element 9:

Physical and Psychological Health
 

• Noise
• Vibration
• Radiation

 Element 10: Mental ill-health

• Violence at work
• Substance abuse at work