NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction
Health and Safety
Health and Safety
For further information, please contact Linda Walsh, Nutts Corner Training Centre, 17 Dundrod Road, Crumlin.
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9082 5122 Fax: +44 (0) 289082 5128 E-mail: linda@bemac.info www.bemac.info
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9082 5122 Fax: +44 (0) 289082 5128 E-mail: linda@bemac.info www.bemac.info
NEBOSH is the UK's leading Health & Safety Awarding Body and is gaining increasing international status. NEBOSH qualifications are recognised and respected by employers in all sections of employment and provide the benchmark standard against which others are compared. Since the 1970s, the principle that "those who create the risks must manage them" has been enshrined in the management of Health & Safety at work.
Inadequate management of Health & Safety costs individuals, organisations and society dearly. These losses can be minimised by planning activities, organising and training staff, assessing the risk, implementing controls and monitoring their use, and periodically reviewing the system.
Managers and Supervisors making day to day decisions have a crucial role to play in any organisation's Health & Safety management system; for it is the quality of these decisions that will determine successful outcomes. And success in Health & Safety is not only a legal requirement but is also a precursor to good management in general.
The NEBOSH Construction Certificate, updated Aug 2007, is a qualification both for those with construction management responsibilities and for those who are required to provide routine day-to-day advice on health, safety and welfare in construction work. The programme of study broadly mirrors that of the National General Certificate. However, due to the specific nature of the award, the opportunity arises to convert key construction issues in rather more technical detail than would be appropriate for a general health & safety award.Inadequate management of Health & Safety costs individuals, organisations and society dearly. These losses can be minimised by planning activities, organising and training staff, assessing the risk, implementing controls and monitoring their use, and periodically reviewing the system.
Managers and Supervisors making day to day decisions have a crucial role to play in any organisation's Health & Safety management system; for it is the quality of these decisions that will determine successful outcomes. And success in Health & Safety is not only a legal requirement but is also a precursor to good management in general.
The refreshed syllabus content reflects the new CDM Regulations 2007 and is specifically referenced within the Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) for these Regulations as a key knowledge indicator when assessing Stage 1 competence for CDM Co-ordinators.
The Construction Certificate therefore contains additional units and requires a slightly longer programme of study than its counterpart. It is thus designed to cover general health and safety issues within a construction context as well as placing emphasis on the specific construction issues that make the industry amongst the most dangerous in which to work.
The Unitised National Certificate in Construction Health & Safety will consist of three units:
NGC1 Management of health and safety
NCC1 Managing and controlling hazards in construction activities
NCC2 Construction health and safety practical application
NGC1 and NCC1 are assessed by written examination and the NCC2 by practical examination.
Please note that unit NGC1 also forms part of the NEBOSH National General Certificate and the Certificate of Fire Safety and Risk Management. Candidates who have already achieved this unit as part of either qualification within the last five years can count it towards achieving their National Certificate in Construction Health & Safety. Unit A of the National Diploma achieved within the last five years can also count towards the NGC1 but the result for this unit is capped at a pass grade.
