NEBOSH National General Certificate
Introduction
The NEBOSH National General Certificate is a qualification designed to help those with health and safety responsibilities (eg. managers, supervisors and employee representatives) to carry out their organisational duties and functions more effectively and to protect the organisations they work.
QM&T offer courses leading to the award of the National General Certificate. No previous health and safety knowledge is required but students must be able to write short reports.
The candidates are assessed by a combination of two written examination question papers and a practical assessment. The NEBOSH National Certificate examinations are held four times a year (usually on the first Friday) of March, June, September and December. Candidates wishing to sit the examination must register with NEBOSH through their examination centres approximately three months before the exam date.
Frequently Asked Questions - PDF
Mode of delivery
There are three modes of delivery of the NEBOSH National General Certificate course:
- Distance Learning - different page
- Day Release (DR): One day a week for ten weeks (usually Wednesday). See Health & Safety Zone for dates. A practical examination will be within two week of the examination date.
- Block Release (BR): Ten days with practical examination will be within two week of the examination date.
- Revision Course (RC): One day 6 Dec 2006 ( Available free to DR, BR students) and Distance Learning students
Accepting Booking for the following Courses - See Course dates
Business Benefits
Course delegates will be able to as a consequence of this course:
- Have sufficient information to competently and confidently attempt the NEBOSH examinations and assignment.
- Be clearly aware of the aims, objectives and benefits of 'Health & Safety management'.
- Be conversant with the application and implementation of vital Health & Safety; structures, systems, disciplines, legislation, etc.
- Capable of interpreting for application purposes Health & Safety processes, procedures and legislation.
- Be aware of the implications of Health & Safety legislation and relevant EC directives for organisations and their activities.
- Coherently answer questions regarding the principles & practice Health and Safety management.
- Able to communicate coherently with all representative bodies.
- Be QM&T validated and certificated as a Health & Safety Management practitioner.
Who Should Attend?
- Health & Safety Professionals
- People wish to further their career in Health & Safety
- Managers, supervisors and employee representatives who wish to carry out their duties and functions more effectively to protect the organisations and staff as they they work.
- Risk Assessors
Course Structure
Programmes of study may be part-time (day and/or evening), full-time block release or open/distance learning. Examinations are available at NEBOSH-approved centres, both in the UK and overseas.
The duration of study for the National General Certificate is a minimum of 87 hours plus private study and background reading. The syllabus is divided into sixteen units:
- Health and safety foundations
- Policy
- Organising for health and safety
- Promoting a positive health and safety culture
- Risk assessment
- Principles of control
- Movement of people and vehicles - hazards and control
- Manual and mechanical handling hazards and control
- Work equipment hazards and control
- Electrical hazards and control
- Fire hazards and control
- Chemical and biological health hazards and control
- Physical and psychological health hazards and control
- Construction activities - hazards and control
- Incident investigation, recording and reporting
- Monitoring, review and audit
Examination details
The examination is held nationally four times a year (March, June, September and December) and comprises two 2-hour written papers (Papers A1 and A2) and a practical assessment (Part B). QM&T offer 'local' examinations, set and marked by NEBOSH but held on a date of the centre's choice. Each written paper consists of one 'long-answer' question and ten 'short-answer' questions. All questions are compulsory. The practical assessment is held on a date set by the centre, marked by the centre's appointed Practical Assessor and moderated by NEBOSH. The written papers and the practical assessment must be taken at the same centre. Registration forms for the examination are obtained from centres approved to run National General Certificate courses.
Course dates and cost
See Health & Safety Training Zone for Courses for price list and order form for the QM&T Training centre.
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