NEBOSH - HSA

High Line Fire and Safety Training Institute is a NEBOSH accredited Learning Partner
approved to offer the:

NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award:

The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award provides a best practice introduction to
workplace health, safety, and risk that is relevant to all industry sectors.

The course content is delivered in an understandable and accessible way and will help you to:
• gain an awareness of common workplace hazards so you can help to implement or
maintain your organisation’s health and safety management system
• gain practical skills that can help keep yourself and others safe
• apply the principles of risk assessment
• have a positive impact on health and safety in your workplace.

Who is it for?
Anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job will
benefit from taking this qualification. The course provides a valuable overview, which can act as
a sound basis for further study.

Benefits to learners:
• The course is a perfect foundation to Health and Safety knowledge for beginners
• The course provides the ability to inspect the workplace, recognize a range of common
hazards, evaluate risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further
control measures and assigning actions.

Benefits to employers:
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award can help you to:
• 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

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Course Details
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award looks at everyday solutions for general
workplace health and safety issues.
Through your studies, you will gain knowledge and practical health and safety skills. This will
enable you to:
• understand why health and safety needs to be managed, ensuring effective processes
are in place
• inspect the workplace, recognising common hazards, evaluating risk, recommending
controls measures and assigning actions
• understand why incidents happen and how to investigate them.

What does this qualification cover?
The course consists of 4 elements:
Element 1: Why and how you manage health and safety
Learning outcome of element 1: Understand why health and safety needs to be managed,
ensuring effective processes are in place
Element 2: Dealing with common workplace hazards
Element 3: Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen
Learning outcome of element 2 & 3: Inspect the workplace, recognising a range of common
hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control
measures and assigning actions.
Element 4: Learning from incidents
Learning outcome of element 4: Understand why incidents happen and how to investigate
them.

Course Duration
This qualification has a minimum of 18 taught hours, two hours of self-study and a
recommendation of three hours for the assessment.

Entry Requirements
There are no entry requirements for this qualification.
It is important that learners have a suitable standard of English language so they can
understand and articulate the concepts contained in the syllabus. NEBOSH recommends that
learners undertaking this qualification should reach a minimum standard of English.

How is this qualification assessed?
After completing the course, you will be asked to complete a workplace health and safety
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
• Select 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.
Certification
Once you have achieved a pass, a qualification parchment will be issued within 20 working days
of the confirmation of the successful unit from NEBOSH.

SQA Accreditation
The NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award has been accredited and credit rated by the
Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) Accreditation. It sits in the Scottish Credit and
Qualifications Framework (SCQF) at SCQF Level 5 (equivalent to RQF Level 2) with 2 credit
points.

If this is your first NEBOSH Award-level qualification, then you may be interested in taking other
qualifications at this level, such as
• NEBOSH Working with Wellbeing
• NEBOSH Environmental Awareness at Work Qualification
• NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation
• NEBOSH HSE Award in Managing Risks and Risk Assessment at Work
• IOSH Managing Safely
• NASP / IASP Advance Diploma in OSH
Alternatively, you may wish to progress on to a Certificate-level qualification, such as
• NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
• NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
• NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Process Safety Management

For more information visit our websites:
• NEBOSH Health and Safety at Work Award – High Line Fire and Safety Training Institute – Highlinefireandsafety.com
• Health and Safety at Work Award – NEBOSH