NEBOSH - Safety Simplified course syllabus.

Category: Health-and-Safety

Level: Beginner

The human and financial costs of failing to manage health and safety are immense. Many organisations and individuals can feel daunted by their responsibilities. But that doesnt have to be the case.

Safety Simplified is a new approach in health and safety training that is relevant to anyone, in any organisation, in any sector.

It aims to demystify the practicalities of risk assessment and control, and help organisations reduce accidents and work related ill-health, achieve greater employee engagement and morale, and improve productivity.
Through a robust learning experience, with lots of practical hints and tips, delegates will return to their workplaces with ideas they can put into practice immediately.

The course content is absorbing, and engaging, makes use of the latest technology, such as augmented reality, to provide learning that brings health and safety to life and helps learners make a real difference in the workplace.

The NEBOSH Safety Simplified course certificate has 5 years validity.

It is recommended that you check with your course tutor for information on NEBOSH - Safety Simplified refresher courses and their recommended frequency or the next step qualification.

Those who complete it will return to their workplaces with safety tips, ideas and tools which can be put into practice straight away. They will be able to make a real contribution not just to their immediate workspace but to the organisations wider culture and its health and safety team.

Employers can easily adopt Safety Simplified to boost the health and safety knowledge and culture across their whole workforce. It is applicable to any sector and is simple to deliver with minimal set-up. For instance, the AR app and scenarios are free to download to any smart device from Googles Play Store and the Apple App Store.

3 days (18 hours total study)

1. Making the case for health and safety

Responsibilities for employers and workers

Moral and legal reasons and benefits

Policies, objectives and resources

Checking and monitoring

2.Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen

Risk assessments

What hazard, risk and risk assessment really mean

Why we do risk assessment

How you do risk assessment (five steps to risk assessment)

3.Stopping incidents from repeating themselves - A simple four-step approach to investigations

Gather information

Analyse information

Identify risk control measures

Develop action plan and implement it

4.Dealing with common workplace hazards

General workplace issues, violence/aggression, substance abuse, stress, noise/vibration

Hazardous chemicals/substances

Laptops/computers and manual handling

Electricity

Work equipment and work at height

Workplace transport

5.Keeping an eye on how things are going

Ignoring the trivial and focusing on the important

Inspecting the workplace

Auditing what, why and how

Learning from good and bad practice

Unit SS1: General health and safety awareness.

Unit SS2: General workplace risk assessment.

You need to pass both assessments to get the course E-certificate.