154 - NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award
This NEBOSH health and safety at work award provides an overview of the core aspects of health and safety, suitable for all employees in the workplace.
What is the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award?
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award is a perfect introduction to health and safety in the workplace, suitable for all employees. It emphasises the principles of health and safety, rather than specific laws. This includes how to control common workplace hazards, helping organisations reduce accident and injury rates. The course has a practical assessment and requires a risk assessment of the workplace to be completed,
More than 35,000 people worldwide hold the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award, benefiting from the essential safety skills it provides. Many organisations use it to upskill their team, improving their safety culture and employee retention rates.
At Phoenix Health and Safety, we can also tailor the course content to your organisation, including industry specific case studies and hazards common to your sector.
This NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award replaces the NEBOSH Award in Health and Safety at Work qualification.
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Benefits for Employers
Reduce absence from workplace illness or injury, raising productivity
Demonstrate your commitment to ensuring the health and safety of your employees
Save costs by preventing accidents and injuries, which could lead to medical expense costs and legal fees
Benefits for Learners
Help promote a positive health and safety culture in your workplace
Learn how to identify and document risks, a skill applicable to a wide variety of roles
Begin to build your health and safety skillset with an entry level NEBOSH course
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Phoenix Health and Safety is a NEBOSH Gold Partner. This accreditation means our NEBOSH course materials, tutors, and learning environments are all stamped with excellence.
The Phoenix Pass Pledge
Every Phoenix NEBOSH course entitles you to continue studying free of charge if you fail to meet the required standard in examinations. However, this is rarely necessary. Our pass rate for NEBOSH training courses is above industry average, with a high number of credits and distinctions.
This NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award is aimed at individuals across an organisation to understand, demonstrate and apply the principles of health and safety as part of their job, including:
Team leaders and supervisors
HR professionals
Facilities managers
No prior knowledge or previous qualifications are required, and the content is relevant to employees across all industries and throughout the world.
The length of the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award depends on your chosen method of study.
When studied in-house, the course takes 3 days to complete.
When studied by e-Learning, the course can be completed in 24 hours. This includes 21 hours of content and a 3 hour assessment.
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award is comprised of one unit, HSA1: Workplace safety foundations, which covers the four following elements:
Element 1: Why and how you manage health and safety
Element 2: Dealing with common workplace hazards
Element 3: Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
Element 4: Learning from incidents
By gaining the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award, candidates can:
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.
The course assessment requires you to conduct a health and safety review, testing your ability to put the knowledge you've learned during the course to practice.
The review includes:
Evaluating current health and safety practices to see how they could be improved.
Identifying hazards in the workplace, determining how the risks they pose are managed.
Determining which areas, if any, in the safety strategy and practices of the business require improvement.
After you've completed a review and received a pass, your certificate will be shipped within 20 working days.
Once you have completed The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award you will be asked to complete a workplace review which:
Considers how health and safety is managed, and how it could be done better
Identifies health and safety issues, how they are controlled and if the risk can be reduced
Selects the most important issue for improvement
This assessment is designed to test your ability to put into practice what you have learnt and, as it is carried out in the workplace, can add instant value to your organisation. Once you have achieved a pass, a qualification parchment will be issued within 20 working days of the confirmation of the successful unit.
When and how will I receive my NEBOSH results?
Results are notified by NEBOSH after completing the course. NEBOSH send out the results 10-12 weeks after the exams. Your certificates will arrive after the results have been announced.
What level is the NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award?
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award is a level 2 qualification.
What is the difference between NEBOSH Awards and Certificates?
NEBOSH Awards are level 2 qualifications, whereas NEBOSH Certificates are level 3 qualifications. NEBOSH Certificates are therefore more detailed and provide the knowledge needed for students to progress to level 6 qualifications such as the NEBOSH Diploma.
Speak to a member of our team today to find out more about the course, as well as what a career in the health and safety industry can do for you.