NEBOSH为英国国家职业安全与健康考试委员会的简称。该机构提供一系列全球认可的、综合的、能满足健康、安全、环境与风险管理需要的职业认证。
你只知道NEBOSH，但你知道NEBOSH到底有哪些课程吗？大家所说的NEBOSH证书到底是指哪一门课程的证书？
其实NEBOSH把它的课程也分成了三个等级，以便不同工作经验，教育背景和考证目的的人员能选择适合自己的课程。这三个等级分别是Award，Certificate和Diploma。具体看下面这张表吧。
相应课程的英文缩写大家可以百度一下了，主要是跟工作安全，环境，防火有关的英文缩写啦。而我们常说的NEBOSH证书其实是指NEBOSH IGC和NEBOSH IOG。IGC内容主要是员工安全与健康综合管理，普遍适用于各行各业的EHS。IOG是NEBOSH Oil and Gas Certificate，适用于石油和天然气行业。要注意的是，这些课程的内容只涉及安全与健康。关于环境的有其它专门的课程。
无论有没有EHS工作经验，如果真的要考NEBOSH，都建议直接报考Certificate。因为Award性价比实在不高。每个课程也要个5K左右的费用，然而这些基本知识点去淘宝花100块买些二手安全工程专业课课本自己回家看看不就好了么。
为什么说IGC非常适合环境工程毕业的学生，且不管有没有工作经验呢，因为环境工程的专业课并不像安全工程的专业课包含很多管理和系统安全的概念，所以环境工程的人在做EHS的时候往往没有闭环管理和系统工程的意识，还只是停留在解决单个问题上。而IGC的课程内容看的多了，就能发现每个主题下面，解决问题的套路是差不多的，这样的内容或许可以给环境工程的学生一些EHS管理方面的启发。
国内报考IGC的人数最多，下面IGC答题攻略为主吧。
NEBOSH IGC出题并不是无规律可循，掌握套路，同样可以轻松通过。
在NEBOSH IGC考试中，经常会碰到“define, give, explain, suggest, complete, describe”等“Command words”。这些Command words使用的目的是检验学生对主题的理解程度以及对相应主题的表达能力。
下面小编就给大家列出常见的NEBOSH IGC问题及答题策略：
ACCIDENTS:
1) Accident Incident Rate: Meaning – Explain
Answer:
The number of accidents/incidents per thousand employees. = Total Incident / Accident * 1000
2) A record should be maintained – Why?
Answer:
- Explain Legal requirements (RIDDOR & BI 510)
- Identifying the trends.
- Insurance
3) Cause of accident & cause of an injury –Difference Explain
Answer:
Immediate & root causes of undesired events.
4) Above difference is important to investigate the accident – Why?
Answer:
(Accident causation theory & need to develop & need to develop investigation procedures to identify root causes).
5) Reference to RIDDOR 1995
Answer:
A) List four types of major injury
- Fractures
- Amputations
- Particular eye injuries requiring immediate medical treatment
- Loss of consciousness due to electric shock or exposure to a substance
- Injury requiring hospital admission for more than 24 hours.
B) Outline procedure of Reporting to Enforcement Authority
Notified to enforcement authority by the quickest possible means (normally telephone fax) & then on Form 2508 within 10 days of the accident.
6) Major injury (notifiable injury): Explain 2 examples (What is meant by?)
Answer:
(Knowledge of RIDDOR 1985)
7) Outline the Legal requirements for reporting a major injury (notifiable injury).
8) Reasons for reporting accidents at work.
Answer:
- Monitoring of accident data analysis & Identification of trends. (H & S Performance).
- Legal requirement under RIDDOR 1985
- The provision of information based on accident investigation & to help in civil claims.
- It provides essential information for reviewing risk assessment and achieving better control over accidents.
- Benefits to individual organization and on a national scale.
- Preventing a recurrence & reducing losses.
9) Accident Investigation – 4 objectives
Answer:
- To establish all the causes of an accident (immediate & underlying) to take preventive action.
- To determine economic losses to establish true cost to the organization.
- To determine the compliance with the law.
- To improve staff relation by demonstration commitment of H & S, thus increasing staff morale
10) Outline the factors that should be considered before undertaking an investigation of an accident.
Answer:
- Planning and preparation stages:
- Determine who should be involved to give the team the necessary skill and expertise.
- Ensure that accident scene is left unaltered (as long as it is safe to do so) etc.
- Identifying the persons (witness, supervisors) to be interviewed during the investigation.
- Checking the legal reporting requirements have been met.
- Ascertaining the equipment that will be needed (e.g measuring tape, plans, camera).
- The reports style formal/informal who is going to receive it. The depth of the investigation required usually determined by a number of factor e.g the seriousness of the accident, number of people involved etc.
11) Outline the reason for reporting accidents at work.
Answer:
- To implement initial controls. As a trigger for investigation.
- To prevent a recurrence and further injuries and losses.
- To comply with legal requirements.
- To provide information for Civil action.
- To highlight the need for and to assist in reviews of risk assessment.
- To provide data for use in the monitoring of safety performance
12) Permit to Work: Explain the practical measures that should be taken to ensure maintenance work is undertaken safely in an underground storage vessel.
Answer:
- Essential elements of the permit to work system ( briefly)
- Pre-cleaning.
- Testing Emergency procedures/ precautions.
- Lighting
- Access & Training.
13) Explain the meaning of term, Safe system of work: Integration of people equipment,
Answer:
- A safe system of work:
Integration of people equipment, material, and environment to produce an acceptable level of Safety.
- Describe the enforcement action that could be taken when a safe system of work has not been implemented.
Improvement Notices.
Prohibition Notices.
14) Describe the practical measures that must be taken to ensure maintenance work is undertaken safely in an underground storage vessel.
Answer:
- Permit to work procedure.
- Pre-cleaning / purging
- Atmospheric testing
- Competent personnel
- Suitable tools.
- Adequate lighting
- Appropriate PPE
- Communication system
- Emergency arrangement for the safe evacuation of staff
15) Define the term Permit to Work
Answer:
“A formally documented control system applied to a high-risk activity to ensure that all safety procedures are carried out”.
