
Explore moral, social, and economic drivers of health and safety, the employer’s legal duties, and the true cost of accidents—visible and hidden—illustrated by the uninsured losses iceberg.
Explore how international standards and enforcement shape workplace safety and employer and worker duties. Learn the roles of the ILO and ISO standards in risk management, training, and safeguarding health.
Discover how health and safety culture drives performance through continual improvement and the 5C commitments. Learn to recognize indicators of poor culture, such as accidents, absenteeism, staff turnover, and noncompliance.
Explore the five-step risk assessment, define hazards and risks, identify those at risk, evaluate probability and severity, and apply the hierarchy of controls with recording and review.
Develop a formal, recorded safe system of work by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing a written procedure with residual risk controls, with active worker involvement.
Explore how a permit to work forms a safe system of work, controls high-risk tasks, and documents risk assessment, precautions, and extensions from issue to completion.
Develop and implement emergency procedures by coordinating with local ambulance, police, fire services, and enforcement authorities to ensure medical and non medical evacuations, training, and mock drills.
Preserve life, prevent deterioration, and promote recovery through essential first aid, wound dressing, and non-medication care. Establish stocked first aid boxes, an appointed person, and cpr training for emergencies.
Investigate injury incidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses, and damage-only events to identify immediate causes (unsafe acts/conditions) and root causes (management system failures) using a five-step process.
Conducting inspection and audits examines health and safety management through internal or external audits, using document checks, records verification, and observations to identify strengths, weaknesses, and corrective actions for improvement.
The following is suggested as a learning material relevant to the NEBOSH Certificate (SCQF 6) examination. Another study method should also complement it. You will learn how to:
Using moral, financial and legal arguments you would be able to justify the health and safety improvements at your workplace
Help your company manage contractors in your workplace and advise on their main duties
Work within a health and safety management system, recognising what effective policy, organisational responsibilities and arrangements should look like
Positively influence health and safety culture and behaviour to improve performance in their organisation
Do a general risk assessment in their own workplace – profiling and prioritising risks, inspecting the workplace, recognising a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures, planning actions
Recognise workplace changes that have significant health and safety impacts and effective ways to minimise those impacts
Develop basic safe systems of work (including taking account of typical emergencies) and knowing when to use permit-to-work systems for special risks