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Nebosh Syllabus-HSE Professionels
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Nebosh Syllabus-HSE Professionels
Syllabus summary
Syllabus summary 10
Qualification overview
Qualification
overview
Pass
Qualification grades
Refer
Issued within 40 working days of the result declaration date for the last successfully
Parchment issue
completed unit.
“If minor incidents and near- Witness interviewing is a valuable skill for an incident
misses are investigated well, investigator. The qualification, therefore, introduces
organisations could potentially you to the PEACE model for interviewing. Once
prevent more serious or you have gained an understanding of the PEACE
catastrophic incidents happening. process you will be able to apply this to three
Investigating incidents helps you incident interviews as part of your final assessment.
to identify trends and ensure your The knowledge, understanding and skills
control measures are effective. that you will gain from this qualification
If you invest time in analysing will also allow you to contribute to team
incidents, you get a snapshot investigations of larger-scale incidents.
of what’s really happening
and you can improve your risk
management system. Employees
become more engaged,
and morale improves.”
Jill De Nardo
Head of Commercial Training at
the HSE Training and Events
Roger Schulp
Lead Investigator S&OR,
Investigations and Learning, BP
overview The syllabus has been developed by NEBOSH and the HSE
following extensive consultation with key stakeholders, notably
It is expected that this qualification will be delivered
over the equivalent of one day (depending on the
Learning Partners, employers, NEBOSH Alumni and subject experts. mode of study). You will be required to undertake
NEBOSH would like to take this opportunity to thank all those three hours of pre-course reading before your course
who participated in the development and implementation of this commences. Some suggestions for this pre-course
qualification, but in particular the reading include:
following employers:
• reading and understanding the requirements of
• Balfour Beatty; your organisation’s incident investigation policy;
• BP; • reviewing a sample of your organisation’s
previous incident investigation reports to find
• Sonoco; and
what lessons have been learnt; and
• University of Portsmouth.
• reviewing some of the incident investigation
case studies from the HSE’s website that may be
relevant to your organisation
(www.hse.gov.uk/slips/casestudies.htm).
“I get asked to be involved in
various projects, but this is one Your Learning Partner will provide you with further
I made time for because it’s an guidance.
area that is so important. As an
organisation, if you have an injury
or a serious near-miss, the least Reason for resits
you can do is learn from it.” You can resit if a ‘Refer’ result is received. There is
no limit on the number of times you can resit a unit.
Steff Williams You must register and pay the current fee(s) by the
Health and Safety Manager registration closing date for the relevant examination
– Industrial Europe, Sonoco sitting.
Alcore Europe
1 1.1
Understand why incident Incident terminology, the
investigations are carried moral, legal and financial
out and how human and arguments for investigations
organisational factors and management system
contribute to incidents requirements
2
of a theoretical
Understand how to 1.3 Investigating incidents
incident investigation
investigate incidents and
confidently carry out an
investigation 1.4 Positive strategies for and
the barriers to successful
interviews