NEBOSH IGC Overall Learning Outcomes and Syllabus

Overall Learning Outcomes

After completing NEBOSH course successfully, students will be able to

• Identify work environment risks and offers counsel on corrective and safeguarding methods
• Understand the job and goals of the International Labor Organization
• Plan and establish and effective occupational health and safety policies
• Influence behavior to make a positive effect in occupational health and safety culture in entire organization  
• Take up risk assessment and accident/ mishap investigation and suggest concern action  
• Conduct health and safety auditing

Full course content:

Unit IGC1: Management of International Health & Safety

Element 1: Foundations in Health and Safety

• The fundamental of occupational health and safety and its various barriers to effective standard
• The good, social and economic drivers for guaranteeing health and safety in working environment, which includes: financial status, globalization, migrant employees, insurance claims and other expenses  
• The aim and responsibility of the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Labor Standards and dimensions of legal duties

Element 2: Health and Safety Management Systems - Plan

• The key aspect of health and safety management system; ILO-OSH and OHSAS18001-   Plan-Do-Check-Act
• The uses and components of an excellent health and safety guidelines and the places where it influences the business

Element 3: Health and Safety Management Systems - Do

• The major roles and responsibility of managing occupational health and safety and their
• Managing contractual workers
• The major key parts of making a positive health and safety culture and its importance in occupational health and safety management.
• The procedures and projects which influences a positive change in conduct at work
• Risk assessment standards and practices
• The various levels and standards of occupational health and safety measures
• The procedures for creating a Safe work System in wide range of workplace.
• The role and purpose of Permit- to – work
• Key features of each PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).
• Emergency procedure and first aid provision at workplace.

Element 3: Health and Safety Management Systems ­- Check

• The duty and responsibilities of active/ reactive monitoring system
• The uses and procedures to investigate, record and report incident and accident at workplace.

Element 4: Health and Safety Management Systems - Act

• Internal / External auditing – Principle
• The uses and rules for doing health and safety review.

Unit GC2: Control of workplace hazards

Element 1: Workplace Hazards and Risk Control

• The health, safety, welfare and environment necessities of workplace
• Safeguarding falling material from safe stacking and storage
• Risk related with violence and materials which are misused at work environment and the various procedures required to control over it.
• Potential hazard and various control for safe move of individuals who works at height, confined space, excavation etc.

Element 2: Transport Hazards and Risk Control

• The hazard and its control for safe transportation in work environment which includes non- movement work related transport hazard
• Risk assessment procedure while driving at work

Element 3: Musculoskeletal Hazards and Risk Control

• Work – Related Upper Limb Disorder (WRULD's) risk and control
• DSE – Display Screen Equipment Risk and Control
• Manual handling activities’ risk and control. It includes manually operated/ powered load handling equipment.

Element 4: Work Equipment Hazards and Risk Control

• Fundamental requirements for work equipment
• Risk and control measures of hand-held tools, mechanical/ non- mechanical machinery

Element 5: Electrical Safety

• Electricity usage and the risk related to electricity at workplace.
• The roles and responsibilities of controlling electricity based risk
• Risk assessment procedures to work with electricity  

Element 6: Fire Safety

• The breakout, classification and spread of fire
• Fire risk assessment procedure
• Preventive measures of fire
• The basic principle and uses of fire alarm, fire- fighting equipment.
• Evacuation procedure in case of fire breaks down at workplace  

Element 7: Chemical and Biological Health Hazards and Risk Control

• Various forms, division and health risk from exposing into hazardous materials
• The key aspects of risk assessment hazardous substance
• Control measures of hazardous materials which includes occupational exposure limits
• Purpose and control of common work environment substances like Asbestos, Foodborne viruses, cement dust, carbon monoxide, wood dust etc.
• Legal duties and responsibilities while storing and handling waste material

Element 8: Physical and Psychological Health Hazards and Risk Control

• The principles, guidelines health effects and control of various health and safety hazard like noise, radiation, vibration etc.  
• Significance of stress management at work

Unit GC3: Health and safety practical application

•   Show the capability of applying knowledge gained from Unit 1(IGC1),Unit  2 (GC2) buy completing health and safety inspection at workplace.
•   Make a report to management in respect to inspection along with appropriate recommendations.

About GWG:

Green World Group in Cochin provides NEBOSH and other health, safety courses with the goal of creating a safety culture at your workplace. The level 3, NEBOSH IGC qualification is trained with well- experienced HSE professionals, maintain a high pass rate in the first attempt. Which makes the students to HSE professional. Training by GWG in Delhi is conducted in a well -organized classroom with effective NEBOSH course book and handbook also with lunch and refreshment to the students.