NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety
Important notice: The NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety is being withdrawn. The National Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management Professionals is the replacement.
This course could lead to senior career opportunities, joining an organisation in a competent person role, or starting your own consultancy.
Successfully complete our course and:
- You will achieve the NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety qualification.
- You can improve your career prospects, increase the scope of work you can perform and enhance your earning potential, if you already work in health and safety.
- You could join a company as a higher-qualified health and safety professional with ‘competent person’ status (in an advisor, manager, or consultant role).
- You could start your own consultancy, advising organisations of their health and safety obligations.
- You will gain knowledge on the key health and safety issues so you can advise organisations in line with current legislation.
- You will be eligible to apply to become a Graduate Member of IOSH so you can use the letters ‘Grad IOSH’ after your name.
- You will be eligible to apply to become a Member of the IIRSM so you can use the letters ‘MIIRSM’ after your name.
- You will be eligible to use the letters ‘Dip NEBOSH’ after your name.
What you will learn
Our course is split into four units of study, each of which is assessed separately:
Unit A: Managing health and safety
- Principles of health and safety management
- Principles of health and safety law
- Criminal law
- Civil law
- Loss causation and incident investigation
- Measuring and reviewing health and safety performance
- The assessment and evaluation of risk
- Risk control
- Organisational factors
- Human factors
- The role of the health and safety practitioner
Unit B: Hazardous substances / agents
- Managing occupational health
- Identification, assessment and evaluation of hazardous substances
- The control of hazardous substances
- The monitoring and measuring of hazardous substances
- Biological agents
- Noise and vibration
- Radiation
- Mental ill-health and dealing with violence and aggression at work
- Musculoskeletal risks and controls
- Work environment risks and controls
Unit C: Workplace and work equipment safety
- Workplace welfare requirements and specific workplace issues
- Fire and explosion
- Workplace fire risk assessment
- The storage, handling and processing of dangerous substances
- Work equipment
- Workplace machinery
- Mobile, lifting, access and work at height equipment
- Electrical safety
- Construction and works of a temporary nature - hazards and controls
- Workplace transport and managing work-related road risk
Unit DNI: Application of health and safety management in the workplace
An assessment must be completed
Support available
You can contact our experienced tutors by phone, email or Skype throughout your training. This gives you the opportunity to ask questions, receive feedback and further develop your knowledge of health and safety.
For free advice, please call Freephone 0800 977 4007 or 01409 220 792.
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