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The NEBOSH General Certificate course is the most widely recognised health and safety qualification of its kind, designed for managers and staff who need knowledge and skills in health and safety management.
Awarded by The National Educational Board in Occupational Health and Safety (NEBOSH), it is a level 3 equivalent qualification designed to develop your health and safety knowledge and skills and give you a highly respected and practical qualification covering:
The NEBOSH General Certificate syllabus tackles the UK’s key legal requirements for health and safety.
In this course, you will hone your health and safety skills and explore how to effectively manage health and safety, learning to identify and control common workplace hazards. It also shows you how to measure your success.
The syllabus is maintained by NEBOSH, a panel of experts and learning providers. It represents current legislation and reflects health and safety challenges faced by every industry.
The NEBOSH General Certificate is split into two units, NG1 and NG2:
The full NEBOSH National General Certificate course syllabus can be found here.
The NEBOSH certificate is relevant for any organisation and can deliver a significant positive impact.
By studying the concepts contained in the course learners will gain improved health and safety knowledge and skills, and the ability to contribute to organisation-wide performance.
The course is assessed in two parts; you will need to sit an online open-book exam and a practical risk assessment. To gain the NEBOSH International General Certificate, you’ll need to pass both.
Find out more about the assessments in our comprehensive guides:
NEBOSH Open Book exams are run once every month, throughout the year. The exam is a digital assessment that you will access at 11 am on the chosen exam date and have 24 hours to complete.
NEBOSH General results are released for each of the two assessments around 50 working days following the chosen assessment date.
For example, if you sat the exam on the 2nd of November, you would expect to receive your results by the 20th of January.
The NG1 open book exam is marked out of 100 and has a pass mark of 45.
Learners are provided with their mark plus a ‘pass’ or ‘referred’ grading based on their score.
The NG2 practical assessment is marked by NEBOSH and you are provided with either a ‘Pass’ or ‘Referral’.
If you receive a referral, you are provided with a feedback report on your practical assessment paper, outlining the areas you need to develop to achieve a pass.
To gain your NEBOSH general certificate you must complete and pass both NG1 and NG2 assessments.
Once you receive a ‘pass’ in both of the assessments you will receive your NEBOSH certificate.
Once you have a NEBOSH General certificate you can:
After this, you may decide to proceed to the NEBOSH National Diploma (making you eligible for Graduate IOSH status) and then on to chartered status (CMIOSH), the premier qualification and status for safety professionals.
Following the NEBOSH General Certificate, you can continue on the NEBOSH educational pathway and work towards a Diploma or Masters qualification. But, you don’t need to stick with NEBOSH to further your skills and knowledge.
Visit Health And Safety Training to plan your next steps.
We are a widely respected Health and Safety Training provider that has been approved to NEBOSH’s highest level and awarded NEBOSH Gold Learning Partner Status.
We successfully deliver hundreds of health and safety qualifications each year, helping learners to achieve the NEBOSH Certificates they need to further their health and safety careers. Our exam pass rate is well above the national average, a testament to the level of support and learning we provide to learners.
Working towards your NEBOSH General Certificate with TSW Training gives you access to our quality-assured network of health and safety experts.
Our Head of Health and Safety is always on hand to help and support learners. He has been a registered member of the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (created by the HSE) since its inception and is a chartered health and safety practitioner.
Awarded the standard of Recognised Safety Practitioner by IIRSM, he spends spend a lot of time mentoring H&S practitioners in the industry for IOSH.
I’d happily recommend this course to friends and colleagues. Thank you Luke for your time and masses of knowledge in the health and safety field. –
This course is available on our open programme, with a calendar virtual and classroom events. You can book a places for yourself, for an employee or for a group of staff.
This course can be delivered exclusively for your organisation, in any location or virtually through Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Read more on our in-house training services.
The General Certificate requires a minimum of 68 taught hours and approximately 40 hours of private study and background reading.
There are various study methods to choose from, the durations differ with each:
10 days plus revision, online exam and practical assessment completion
113 hours total study time plus online exam and practical assessment completion
10 days plus revision, online exam and practical assessment completion
10 days plus revision, online exam and practical assessment completion
NEBOSH does not stipulate specific entry requirements for this qualification however, they do state the importance of learners being able to read and write in the English language.
This is so that learners are able to understand and communicate the information contained in the syllabus.
It is advised that Learners undertaking this NEBOSH qualification reach a minimum standard of written and spoken English that is equivalent to the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 6.0 or higher.
To find out more about these language requirements, please take a look at the IELTS website.
It’s a level 3 qualification, which is equivalent to an A Level, or Level 6 in the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF).
Your course materials and books are included in your course fees and we’ll post them to you ahead of your start date. If you would like to do some wider reading, make sure it’s relevant to the current syllabus – you can run books and materials past your trainer to check they’re going to help your studies.
You’ll complete the risk assessment alongside your studies in the final few weeks of the course. You’re walked through examples in class and then apply what you’ve learnt in your workplace risk assessment.
You take the NEBOSH exam using an internet-connected device, from a location of your choosing.
You’ll be given a unique login and password to access the NEBOSH exam platform, download the paper and submit your answers within 24 hours.
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