NEBOSH Award in Health and Safety at Work

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award provides a best practice introduction to workplace health, safety, and risk that is relevant to all industry sectors. This qualification is now available in Arabic, in addition to English.

The course content is delivered in an understandable and accessible way and will help you 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.

  • Element 1: Why and how you manage health and safety
  •    1.1: Moral, legal and financial reasons and benefits for managing health and safety
  •    1.2: Managing health and safety consistently well
  •    1.3: Auditing
  • Element 2: Dealing with common workplace hazards
  •    2.1: General workplace issues
  •    2.2: Violence and aggression
  •    2.3: Work-related stress
  •    2.4: Hazardous chemicals and substances
  •    2.5: Computers
  •    2.6: Substance abuse
  •    2.7: Electricity
  •    2.8: Fire
  •    2.8: Fire continued
  •    2.9: Manual handling
  •    2.10: Noise and vibration
  •    2.11: Work equipment
  •    2.12: Work at height    
  •    2.13: Workplace transport
  •    2.13: Workplace transport continued
  • Element 3: Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
  •    3.1: Inspecting the workplace
  •    3.2: Risk assessment theory
  • Element 4: Learning from incidents
  •    4.1: Why investigating incidents makes sense
  •    4.2: A simple four-step approach to investigations