Course guide for learners

Version: 1
Specification date: May 2019
Publication date: September 2019
Course overview
Course Course key features
overview
Assessment: Assessment Type Assessment Time Pass Standards
Unit SS1: General health and safety awareness: Multi-format examination 30 minutes 60%
Unit SS2: General workplace risk assessment: Practical assessment 1.5 hours See guidance later in document
A ‘Pass’ must be achieved in both units to achieve the course.
Modes of study: A full-time block release course (minimum of 18 hours, three working days)
Part-time day release (minimum of 18 hours)
Open, distance or ELearning

Entry requirements: None

English
Languages available:
(More languages to be available in 2020)
Pass
Course grades:
Refer

Certificate issue: E-certificate

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Course Who is the course designed for? Benefits for your employer

overview Safety Simplified is ideal for anyone who is

looking for an introduction to health and safety
When you have passed the course, you will be
a huge asset to your employer. You will make a
issues in the workplace and risk assessment. real difference in the workplace. You will have
This may include team leaders and supervisors, the knowledge, understanding and skills to help
HR professionals, facilities managers and those protect the health and safety of all workers. You
training young people in a working environment. will also be able help your employer to comply with
the law and good practice, as well as help them
avoid the huge costs from incidents and ill-health.
Benefits for learners
Safety Simplified looks at everyday solutions for
general workplace health and safety issues. When
Achieving the course certificate
you have completed the course, you will be able to: You need to pass both assessments
to get the course certificate.
• make a case for managing health and safety
including recognising what good health and
safety management looks like;
• do a general risk assessment in your own
workplace – inspecting the workplace,
recognising a range of common hazards,
evaluating risks (taking account of current
controls), recommending further control measures
and assigning actions;
• understand why incidents happen and
how to investigate them; and
• help your employer to check their health and
safety management system effectiveness –
through monitoring, audits and reviews.

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Course Fair assessments for all

overview We want you to have a fair chance at the

assessments. If you have any disabilities, special
educational needs or temporary injuries, please
discuss these with your Learning Partner. They can
make adjustments to assessment conditions to take
your needs into account.

Appeals
If you feel that your assessments were unfairly
marked, you should speak to your Learning Partner
in accordance with their complaints procedure.

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Syllabus
 Syllabus summary

Syllabus Element

1 Making the case for health and safety

2 Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen

3 Stopping incidents from repeating themselves

4 Dealing with common workplace hazards

5 Keeping an eye on how things are going

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria

Learning outcome Assessment criteria Assessment
The learner will be (QP = question
able to: paper, P = practical)
Make a case for managing health Identify the moral, legal and financial reasons for QP
and safety including recognising managing health and safety in the workplace
what good health and safety Identify the main ingredients of an effective health and
management looks like safety management system

Do a general risk assessment in their Produce a risk assessment of a workplace which QP/P
own workplace – inspecting the considers a wide range of identified hazards (drawn
workplace, recognising a range of from element 4) and meets best practice standards
common hazards, evaluating risks (‘suitable and sufficient’)
(taking account of current controls),
recommending further control
measures and assigning actions
Understand why incidents happen Identify why incidents happen and how they can be QP
and how to investigate them investigated
Help their employer to check their Identify common methods used to check and improve QP
health and safety management the effectiveness of health and safety management
system effectiveness – through systems
monitoring, audits and reviews

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 Assessment SS1 –
Multi-format examination
Assessment This multi-format assessment will include
a range of different question types and
SS1 – will be marked by your course tutor.

Multi-format You will receive a ‘Pass’ or ‘Refer’. The ‘Pass’

mark is 60% (18 marks out of a possible 30).
examination If you receive a ‘Refer’ (i.e. don’t pass) on your
first attempt at the multi-format examination,
you will be given another chance to take
the assessment using a different paper.

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Assessment SS2 – Practical
Assessment Guidance on completing the risk Submission of the assessment
assessment
SS2 - Practical You can complete your risk assessment using
This must be your own work and be submitted
to your course tutor for marking. You can
the template we provide (it’s based on the one either hand write or type your assessment.
recommended by the British regulator (the HSE) So as to avoid any malpractice issues,
and should be fine for most workplaces). But, as part of your studies, your Learning
you can use any template you like (like your Partner will also confirm your identity.
organisation’s own format). But whatever you use,
you must make sure that you have included all of
the right information outlined below to meet the Marking
assessment criteria. Risk assessments don’t have
to be perfect or too detailed – they just need to be Your assessment will be marked by your course
good enough to help you decide on what to do tutor. You will receive a ‘Pass’ or ‘Refer’. We want
to control risks. The HSE has lots of examples on you to be confident in completing risk assessments
their website of what good risk assessments look and do it well. So, if your tutor decides that you
like for a range of different workplaces: www.hse. haven’t met the ‘Pass’ standard they will work with
gov.uk/risk/. You will have many hazards in your you to help you to see how to fix any shortfalls
workplace but we only want you to spend around before submitting the results to NEBOSH. But
90 minutes on this assessment. So we want you to remember, to learn well the assessment must still be
limit your risk assessment to just five hazard types. your own work – your tutor won’t do it for you.

The following page gives guidance on completing

each section of the risk assessment. You can also
use the guidance as a checklist to remind you to
complete each section.

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Learner name Your full name Date The date you carry out the assessment

Background Information

Include the following information about your organisation and the area you risk assessed:
• Who your organisation is and what sort of business it is
• The sorts of activities carried out in the location/area you are using for your risk assessment

How did you carry out this risk assessment?

Include what you did, such as:

• Sources of information you looked at (official guidance, company documents)
• Walking around the location to look at hazards
• People you talked to about the area/job

What are the

hazards? Who might be harmed What are you What else do you need to do to
Action by whom? Action by when?
(things, activities, anything and how? already doing? control this risk?
that could cause harm)
Identify five hazards Identify groups of people List what is already List anything else that can be realistically State the role of the Give a realistic
that may be harmed by in place to control put in place to reduce the risk person carrying out the date for when the
Each hazard should each hazard eg, staff, this hazard. There action – making sure that action should be
be a different type ie, visitors may be several If nothing else is needed give a brief the role is suited to the completed
not multiple manual things you are doing explanation is to why you think this is action eg, HR, Supervisor,
handling hazards And how they may be for each hazard, so Office Manager, Facilities
harmed eg, a hazard list them all – but To do this compare what is already in Managers. This may
Consider the types of ‘damaged electrical you only need to do place against good practice (covered in involve multiple people.
of hazard contained cable’ could cause this briefly, not too your course or other guidance)
in Element 4 of the electric shock/burns detailed.
syllabus Make sure the actions (if required) are
sensible and proportionate to the risk.
Often you will have more than one
action for each hazard.

Give a realistic date for when the risk assessment should be reviewed to see if hazards are still well controlled. For example, if risks are
low and things don’t change very often, you can set a review date that is quite far in the future. But be prepared to look at it sooner if
Review date:
things do change. Although not part of this assessment, when you are back in your workplace remember to check the actions have been
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