NEBOSH INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMA FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY-LEVEL 6

Content outline

Unit IA: Managing health and safety

Principles of health and safety management Regulating health and safety

Loss causation and incident investigation Organisational factors

Measuring and reviewing H&S performance Risk Control

The assessment and evaluation of risk Human factors

The role of the health and safety practitioner

Unit IB: Hazardous substances / agents

The control of hazardous substances Biological agents

The monitoring and measuring of hazardous substances Radiation

Noise and vibration Managing occupational health

Work environment risks and controls Musculoskeletal risks and controls

Mental ill-health and dealing with violence and aggression at work

Identification, assessment and evaluation of hazardous substances

Unit IC: Workplace and work equipment safety

Workplace fire risk assessment Work equipment

Workplace machinery Electrical safety

Mobile, lifting, access and work at height equipment Fire and explosion

Construction and works of a temporary nature - hazards and controls

Workplace transport and managing work-related road risk

Workplace welfare requirements and specific workplace issues

The storage, handling and processing of dangerous substances

Unit DNI: Application of health and safety in the workplace

Units IA, IB and IC are by written examination.

Unit ID is a workplace-based assignment requiring application of learning across the syllabus.

COURSE ASSESSMENT

The NEBOSH International Diploma syllabus assumes that students will have

knowledge of health and safety equivalent to that provided by the NEBOSH

International General Certificate (IGC).

Entry requirements

Managers SupervisorsHealth and Safety practitioner Those who seek studying MSc

TARGET AUDIENCE