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NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health - IG

Level: Skill | Type: Classroom | Discipline: Health Safety and Environment

Course Objective

The IGC looks at everyday solutions for general workplace health and safety issues. When you have completed the qualification, you will be able to:

  • Justify the need for health and safety improvements;
  • Advice on duties for health and safety in the workplace;
  • Help your organization to manage contractors;
  • Work within a health and safety management system;
  • Positively influence health and safety culture and behavior;
  • Carry out a general risk assessment (using a 5-step approach) of your workplace;
  • Recognize workplace changes and their impacts and understand how to minimize 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, and help your employer check the effectiveness of
  • Their health and safety management system through monitoring, auditing, and review.
The following points shall be discussed in the course:

  • Justify health and safety improvements using moral, financial, and legal arguments.
  • Advise on the main duties for health and safety in the workplace and help their organization manage contractors.
  • Work within a health and safety management system, recognizing what effective policy, organizational responsibilities, and arrangements should look like.
  • Positively influence health and safety culture and behavior to improve performance in their organization.
  • Do a general risk assessment in their own workplace – profiling and prioritizing risks, inspecting the workplace, recognizing a range of common hazards, evaluating risks (taking account of current controls), recommending further control measures, planning actions.
  • Recognize workplace changes that have significant health and safety impacts and effective ways to minimize those impacts.
  • Develop basic safe systems of work (including taking account of typical emergencies)
  • and knowing when to use permit-to-work systems for special risks.
  • Take part in incident investigations.
  • Help their employer to check their management system effectiveness – through monitoring, audits, and reviews.
Training delivered by NEBOSH Authorised Learning Center Number: 1452

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Week 1 - Day 1 ( IG-1)

  • 2 - 2.1. Moral and Money - continued Morals and Money
  • 2.2. Regulating Health and Safety
  • 3 - 3.1. Regulating Health and Safety - continued
  • 4 – 4.1. Who Does What in Organisations – continued
Day 2
  • 5 – 5.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 5.2. Health and Safety Management Systems
  • 6 - 6.1. Making It Work – Health and Safety Policy
  • 7 - 7.1. Health and Safety Culture
  • 8 – 8.1. Improving Health and Safety Culture
  • 8.3. . Improving Health and Safety Culture - continued
Day 3
  • 10 - 10.1. Risk Assessment
  • 9 - 9.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 11 - 11.1. Risk Assessment – continued
  • 11.2. Management of Change          
  • 11.2. Management of Change          
  • 12 – 12.1. Safe Systems of Work
Day 4
  • 13 - 13.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 13.2. Permit-to-Work Systems
  • 14 - 14.1. Emergency Procedures and First Aid
  • 14.2. First-Aid Requirements
  • 15 - 15.1. Active and Reactive Monitoring
  • 16 – 16.1. Investigating Incidents Written Procedures
Day 5
  • 17 - 17.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 17.2. Investigating Incidents
  • 18 - 18.1. Auditing
  • 18.2. What is the difference between an audit and an inspection?
  • 19 - 19.1. Reviewing Health and Safety Performance
  • 20 - 20.1. Revision and Exam Preparation Skills
Week 2 ( IG2) - Day 6 
  • 1.2. Noise
  • 2 - 2.1. Vibration
  • 2.2. What occupations are most at risk of exposure to vibration?
  • 3 – 3.1. Case study Exercise 1
  • 3.2. Radiation
  • 4 – 4.1. Mental Ill-Health
  • 4.2. Violence at Work 
  • 4.3. Substance Abuse at Work
Day 7
  • 5 – 5.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 5.2. Work-Related Upper Limb Disorders
  • 6 - 6.1. Manual Handling
  • 6.2. Identify specific factors for a manual handling risk assessment
  • 7 - 7.1. Load-Handling Equipment
  • 7.2. What accidents could occur with the use of a forklift truck?  
  • 8 – 8.1. Forms of, classification of, and health risks from hazardous substances
  • 8.2. How can chemical/biological organisms enter the body?
Day 8
  • 9 - 9.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 9.2. Occupational exposure limits
  • 9.3. Control Measures
  • 10 - 10.1. The Practical Assessment – Risk Assessment (Part 2)
  • 10.2. Health, Welfare, and Work Environment Requirements
  • 11 - 11.1. Work at Height
  • 11.2. Suggest the control measures for the safe use of ladders.
  • 12 – 12.1. Confined Spaces
  • 12.2. Lone Working
Day 9
  • 13 - 13.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 13.2. Slips and Trips
  • 14 - 14.1. Safe Movement of People and Vehicles in The Workplace
  • 14.2. Driving for Work
  • 15 - 15.1. General Requirements for Work Equipment
  • 15.2. Hand-held tools
  • 16 – 16.1. Machinery Hazards Function of Investigations
  • 16.2. Control Measures for Machinery
Day 10
  • 17 - 17.1. Overview of previous day training
  • 17.2. Fire Initiation, Classification, and Spread
  • 18 - 18.1. Fire Prevention and Prevention of Fire Spread
  • 18.2. Fire Alarms and Fire-Fighting
  • 19 - 19.1. Fire Evacuation
  • 19.2. Principles, Hazards and Risks of Electricity
  • 20 - 20.1. Control Measures
  • 20.2. Final Briefing on Practical Assessment


  • This qualification is designed for anyone (managers, supervisors, and workers) in any type of organization
  • It’s ideal for anyone who needs a broad understanding of health and safety issues to be able to manage day-to-day risks effectively
  • Many people take the International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (IGC) as the first step in a career in health and safety
  • It gives a valuable overview, and is a sound basis for further professional study

  • Basic Recommended minimum standards of English Equivalent to an International English Language Testing System score of 6.0 or higher in IELTS tests
  • The course will require learners to undertake some research
  • They will require at least some access to the Internet resources for this purpose

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