NEBOSH General Certificate
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The NEBOSH National General Certificate is a qualification designed to help those with health and safety responsibilities (e.g. managers, supervisors and employee representatives) to discharge more effectively their organisational duties and functions. The NEBOSH National General Certificate is not a qualification purely for health and safety specialists.
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The duration of study for the National General Certificate is a minimum of 80 hours plus private study and background reading (around 80 hours). The syllabus is divided into sixteen units:
1. Health and safety foundations
2. Policy
3. Organising for health and safety
4. Promoting a positive health and safety culture
5. Risk assessment
6. Principles of control
7. Movement of people and vehicles - hazards and control
8. Manual and mechanical handling hazards and control
9. Work equipment hazards and control
10. Electrical hazards and control
11. Fire hazards and control
12. Chemical and biological health hazards and control
13. Physical and psychological health hazards and control
14. Construction activities - hazards and control
15. Incident investigation, recording and reporting
16. Monitoring, review and audit
Assessment is by an end examination comprising of two written papers and a practical assessment which consists of carrying out a health and safety inspection of a workplace and preparing a management report.
