Managing Health & Safety

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