Health & Safety

NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award

About This Course

The qualification is designed for anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job. Many people take the three days NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award as a first step in a career in health and safety. It gives a valuable overview, and is a sound basis for further professional study.

Course Content

On completion of this element, candidates should be able to demonstrate understanding of the content through the application of knowledge to familiar situations. In particular, they should be able to:

Understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes are in place
Inspect the workplace, recognise common hazards, evaluating risk, recommending controls measures and assigning actions

understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job will benefit from taking this qualification including:

Team leaders and supervisors
HR professionals
Facilities Manager

Benefits for Leaners

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award looks at everyday solutions for general workplace health and safety issues. When you have completed the qualification, you will be able to:

Gain an awareness of common workplace hazards so you can help to implement or maintain your organisation’s health and safety management system
Gain practical skills that can help keep yourself and others safe

Apply the principles of risk assessment
Have a positive impact on health and safety in your workplace

Benefits for Employers

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award can help you to:

Reduce incident and injury rates, and the associated lost time and absence
Foster greater health and safety awareness amongst employees
Improve employee engagement and enhance safety culture

Secure higher levels of compliance with organisational safety measures
Protect the business from the reputational damage caused by health and safety failures.

Entry Requirement

There are no entry requirements for this qualification. It is important that learners have a suitable standard of English language in order to understand and articulate the concepts contained in the syllabus. NEBOSH recommends that learners undertaking this qualification should reach a minimum standard of English equivalent to an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 5.0 or higher in IELTS tests.

Assessment and Certification

The aim of this assessment is for you to practically apply the knowledge and understanding that you have gained from studying the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award. To do this, you will need to apply your knowledge to their workplace. Before you start the assessment, you must have completed your studies of the whole of the HSA syllabus (elements 1 to 4). The assessment must be carried out in your own workplace. Where you do not have access to a workplace, KBAT will help to make arrangements for you to carry out the assessment at a suitable premises. You will be informed of the date that the assessments will need to be submitted. Failure to submit will result in an ‘absent’.

You must achieve the pass standard 45 out of 60 (75%) in this unit in order to pass the assessment and achieve the qualification.

In-House Training

This course can be tailored to reflect your organisation’s system of work. It can also be presented as an in-company package at your company’s facility and/or preferred location. For further details such as corporate rates and schedules, please contact us.