NEBOSH advice

Dave0687

Just wondering if anyone has advice on NEBOSH and what the course entails? Any recommended course providers?
Also what could I earn a year if i used NEBOSH as a career?
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HBPencil

Sorry im not quite clear on what you mean as NEBOSH as a career? It is just a Health & Safety Qualification, you can use it in any career.

With the correct background experience it does allow you to be the "competent person" in Health & Safety for a company. However there isnt a defined salary for NEBOSH.

tea_lover

There are a huge number of Nebosh qualifications (it's an exam board, like Edexcel or similar). Do you mean the General Certificate (that's the most common)?

Stuwat83

The NEBOSH general cert consists of 2 theory and 1 practical exam. The course can be completed in a 2 week crash course or via long distance. I personally did the long distance course as it is nearly half the cost of the 2 week course. you can work at your own pace and providing you have a good tutor to communicate with will help greatly. A lot of people do the 2 week course and they say its a lot to take in in a short period of time. but the positive to this is you are totally focussed on NEBOSH where doing it long distance you can come and go and things may not be as fresh in your mind as they could be.

Vicarious

Dave0687 wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone has advice on NEBOSH and what the course entails? Any recommended course providers?
Also what could I earn a year if i used NEBOSH as a career?
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Hya Dave,

Main question is... are you asking about award, certificate or diploma qualifications from NEBOSH ?

phill99

If you want to be a Health and Safety Practitioner, which is what I think you are eluding too you will need to do the NEBOSH Diploma. The Certificate is more for general business managers within an organisation.

dickydonkin

phill99 wrote: »

If you want to be a Health and Safety Practitioner, which is what I think you are eluding too you will need to do the NEBOSH Diploma. The Certificate is more for general business managers within an organisation.

I don't generally subscribe to that assertion.

The General Certificate is a fantastic kick start for a career in health and safety as NEBOSH is now arguably the benchmark of qualifications required for such a role.

Many employers do indeed send managers on the general certificate course, however, many never attempt to enhance their safety knowledge after completion and only attain the qualification not because they wanted it - but more likely as a requirement of their employer.

Many (including myself) believe that before even considering the Diploma route, you need to have completed the General Certificate as this would greatly assist in progressing to the Diploma.

Indeed, many providers would be reluctant to register someone for a Diploma who have no previous health & safety qualifications - and it is worth remembering that many of the modules of the diploma are similar to what have been completed in the NEBOSH certificate, so for those having successfully completed the general certificate will have a distinct advantage when attempting to attain the diploma.

Another great asset is having real life workplace experience.

It is all well and good having been awarded a general certificate, but it is interpreting the theoretical knowledge gained into actual workplace situations.

An example of this was when I was attempting to explain to a young safety practitioner who had all the required qualifications, but had never worked in a 'real world' workplace environment and I was trying to extol the virtues of a 'pallet gate' , how they work and how they protect falls from height - he told me he had never heard of one - let alone seen one working!

Quite worrying if a client was requiring a solution for working at height with exposed leading edges.

I believe that combining working life skills and a NEBOSH qualification will be a good start for a career in H&S, along with being thick skinned, having good persuasive skills, being a great communicator and having a decent level of English.

It can be challenging at times though, and it is a role you really want to do.

tea_lover

dickydonkin wrote: »

It can be challenging at times though, and it is a role you really want to do.

This is very true. I've been in health and safety for over a decade, and have reached the end of the line with it. There's only so much of it a person can take! You'll need an incredibly thick skin to deal with people constantly trying to ignore and bypass your professional advice.

Despite being a chartered profession it's seen as an irrelevance and a joke by a lot of society (try arguing against daily mail myths such as "conkers banned in schools" for several years and you start losing the will to live eventually).

dickydonkin

tea_lover wrote: »

This is very true. I've been in health and safety for over a decade, and have reached the end of the line with it. There's only so much of it a person can take! You'll need an incredibly thick skin to deal with people constantly trying to ignore and bypass your professional advice.

Despite being a chartered profession it's seen as an irrelevance and a joke by a lot of society (try arguing against daily mail myths such as "conkers banned in schools" for several years and you start losing the will to live eventually).

You sum it up brilliantly - I cannot add more to that.

I still do the odd bit of H&S work, but I can be selective on what I do and when I do it.

The problem though with this, is having to explain and indeed convince that documentation alone does not prevent injuries nor does it act as a form of disclaimer when things go wrong.

I do the groundwork and explain how to maintain a management system, sadly, I wonder why I bother at times.

I couldn't/wouldn't do it full time now.......I tried to a couple of years ago, but packed in after three months.....without going into great detail, I got sick of trying to turn around a business that was seriously at risk due to major health and safety failings.....they thought differently, wouldn't listen, but I was proven correct - although I take no satisfaction from that as people suffered.

Boy was I glad to get out when I did.

cnev

I work in construction as self employed builder but i want to get into health and safety. Would the nebosh general cert be a good starting point for me? also has anyone come across any funding for self employed people to do training?