NEBOSH Health & Safety Management for Construction

The NEBOSH Health and Safety Management for Construction (UK) is aligned to Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM) regulations and is guided by legislation but focused on best practice. On completion of the qualification you will be able to:

- Advise on duties and manage construction risks under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
- Justify the need for health and safety improvements
- Produce or contribute to a construction phase plan
- Help your organisation to manage contractors
- Positively influence health and safety culture and behaviour
- Carry out a risk assessment of a construction site and manage a range of construction hazards
- Recognise workplace changes and their impacts, and understand how to minimise these impacts
- Develop basic safe systems of work that include emergency arrangements and know when to use a permit-to-work system
- Take part in incident investigations

The qualification is made up of one unit which must be successfully completed within 5 years to achieve the NEBOSH Health and Safety Management for Construction (UK) qualification:

Unit NC1: Managing Construction Safely

- The foundations of construction health and safety management
- Improving health and safety culture and assessing risk
- Managing change and procedures
- Excavation
- Demolition
- Mobile plant and vehicles
- Working at height
- Musculoskeletal health and load handling
- Work equipment
- Electricity
- Fire
- Chemical and biological agents
- Physical and psychological health

Assessment:

Unit NC1 is assessed by a scenario based Open Book Exam completed at home. It will take around 8 hours and you have 48 hours to complete the assessment and return it to NEBOSH.