What is NEBOSH General Certificate?
Over 200,000 people hold a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. Why? Because it’s the gold standard in health and safety qualifications.
Thousands of leading experts and organisations have helped update the most widely respected health and safety qualification of its kind in the world. The qualification is designed to reflect the needs of today’s employer giving learners everything they need to know and do to make their workplace safer. - Focuses on key skills that are essential for the workplace.
The new syllabus has been streamlined to allow core skills to be considered in greater depth. It covers how to effectively manage health and safety, the UK’s key legal requirements and how to identify and control the key workplace hazards in every kind of workplace. Risk assessment is central to the NGC qualification making sure it reflects the real-life roles people perform:
Key Features
- Developed by NEBOSH experts with input from 3,000 of the world’s leading employers and health and safety professionals
- A qualification that is rooted in today’s real-world needs - Employer and learner friendly - has a pragmatic mix of theory and practical
- The syllabus has been streamlined to concentrate on core key skills
- Uses straightforward terms and language - it has been reviewed by the Plain English campaign
- Learner choice – can be completed by eLearning, face to face, block or day release
Assessed by a combination of:
- One open book examination question paper to assess what you know
- One practical – a risk assessment to assess what you can do
- Learners complete a risk assessment and develop an action plan for their workplace – this is immediately useful and valuable
Who should do this qualification?
- It is relevant to every workplace
- Ideal for managers, supervisors, or anybody with health and safety management responsibilities
- Perfect for those embarking on a health and safety career
Benefits for Employers
According to the Health and Safety Executive, workplace injuries and ill-health cost UK businesses over £15 billion per year. To go home safely at the end of the working day is a right, not a privilege.
When you achieve the NGC, you will be a huge asset to your employer. You will make a real difference in the workplace. You will have the knowledge, understanding and skills to help protect the health and safety of all workers. You will also be able help your employer to comply with the law and good practice, as well as help them avoid the huge costs from incidents and ill-health.
The qualification can help to:
- Boost employee wellbeing
- Minimise workplace injuries and illness
- Demonstrate your commitment to health and safety, which can help win business
- Strengthen your health and safety culture
- Ensure your organisation has valuable in-house health and safety expertise
Course Fees
£949 + VAT per delegate
Please note if you need to do a re-sit the cost is not included in the course fee.
The course fee includes registration fees, text books and light refreshments where delivery is in-person.
For further information on any of the programmes listed, please contact:
Colette Grogan
Tel: 028 822 50544
Email: colette@ghskills.com
