The NEBOSH National Diploma

After undertaking the NEBOSH National Diploma

After successfully completing the course the delegate will:

• GradIOSH designatory letters can be used after enrolment for a period of Initial Professional Development (IPD);
• CMIOSH chartered status is gained after successful completion of a minimum of 2 years Initial Professional Development (IPD) during which they will develop a skills based portfolio in OSH Practice and undertake a professional review interview with the Privy Council;
• Be able to provide detailed advice for health & safety issues in line with current legislation & HSE guidance;
• Be able to assist the organisation in continual health & safety management and control measures;
• Have a broad range of detailed knowledge & the application of key health & safety issues.

NEBOSH Diploma Course Content – The 4 units A, B, C & D content is outlined below & these are accompanied with a common skills element i.e. Communication Skills and Training Skills.

Unit A: Managing Health & Safety

• A1 Principles of health and safety management
• A2 Loss causation and incident investigation
• A3 Identifying hazards, assessing and evaluating risk
• A4 Risk control and emergency planning
• A5 Organisational factors
• A6 Human factors
• A7 Principles of health and safety law
• A8 Criminal law
• A9 Civil law
• A10 Measuring health and safety performance

Unit B: Hazardous Agents in the Workplace

• B1 General aspects of occupational health and hygiene
• B2 Principles of Toxicology and Epidemiology
• B3 Chemical Agents – Evaluating Risk
• B4 Hazardous Substances – Preventative and Protective Measures
• B5 Hazardous Substances – Monitoring and Maintenance of Control Measures
• B6 Biological Agents
• B7 Physical Agents (1) – Noise and Vibration
• B8 Physical Agents (2) – Radiation and Thermal environment
• B9 Psycho-social Agents
• B10 Ergonomic agents

Unit C: Workplace & Work Equipment

• C1 General workplace issues
• C2 Principles of fire and explosion
• C3 Workplace fire risk assessment
• C4 The storage, handling and processing of dangerous substances
• C5 Work equipment
• C6 Machinery safety
• C7 Mechanical handling
• C8 Electrical safety
• C9 Safety in construction and demolition
• C10 Environmental pollution and waste management

Unit D: Application of Health & Safety Theory & Practice

• Candidates are required to make a detailed reveiw of the health & safety performance of a workplace or organisation and produce a justified action plan to improve performance. The expected length of the assisgnment is around 8,000 words.

NEBOSH Training is available for a number of other areas which give you a rang of other certified skills. Protect Life are a health, safety and protective goods superstore. They offer all the above and much more.

Good vendors of this type of training are hard to find. Perhaps the best approach when selecting a supplier is to approach the HSP (Health Safety and Protective) Superstores, they can usually sasitisfy all your health safety and protective training needs. They pridictably have 4 primary training services which we can be delivered locally, nationally or internationally:

1. Defining your needs – Helping clients to evaluate or review theire training requirements and deliver a plan for training which will be flexible enough to work in the designated organisation;

2. Planning – Help customers to present and implement a clear and transparent plan address training all their health safety and protective needs;

3. Deliver one-off or periodic training for individuals/groups. With many of there courses you have the option of Training being delivered face to face, via video, via interactive computer based training or a combination of these methods;

4. Your training department – they can manage all your training issues for you.
They say “training does not have to be costly or restricted to any specific time” As some of their courses can be taken any time of the day and any day of the week.