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NEBOSH International General Certificate
Instructor:
syedwahabali58@gmail.com
04 April, 2022
Description
The NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety is relevant to workplaces across industries and countries. It develops the knowledge and practical capability needed to support safer work, manage day-to-day risks and contribute to an effective health and safety management system.
NEBOSH introduced the revised 2025 specification for teaching from February 2026. The current qualification uses two units: GIC1, Management of Health and Safety, and GIC2, Risk Assessment.
Who Is This Course For?
The qualification is suitable for learners in any type of organisation, including:
- Managers and supervisors with day-to-day health and safety responsibilities
- Team leaders, foremen, engineers and operational personnel
- Health, safety and environment assistants or coordinators
- Quality, facilities, maintenance, construction and project personnel
- Human resources and administrative professionals supporting workplace wellbeing
- Workers who want a broad understanding of occupational health and safety
- Career changers and new entrants seeking a foundation for further professional study
- Employers building practical health and safety capability within their teams
Eligibility Requirements
There are no formal entry requirements. However, learners must be able to understand and explain the concepts in the syllabus and produce written assessment responses in their chosen assessment language.
English-language guidance: For learners studying and being assessed in English, NEBOSH recommends a standard equivalent to IELTS 6.0 or higher. This is a recommendation rather than a separate formal entry qualification.
Course Outline
Unit GIC1: Management of Health and Safety
Main Focus: Moral, financial and legal reasons; regulation; duties; contractors
Main Focus: Management-system principles, policy and international frameworks
Main Focus: Culture, human factors, risk assessment, change, safe systems and emergencies
Main Focus: Incident investigation, performance monitoring, audit and review
Unit GIC2: Risk Assessment
Main Focus: Work-related health, wellbeing and physical or psychological risks
Main Focus: Manual handling, ergonomic factors and work-related disorders
Main Focus: Routes of exposure, health effects and appropriate controls
Main Focus: Workplace conditions, transport, working at height and other general risks
Main Focus: Machinery and equipment hazards, safeguarding and safe use
Main Focus: Fire causes, prevention, protection and emergency arrangements
Main Focus: Electrical hazards, risk controls and safe working principles
What Will You Learn?
By the end of the programme, learners should be able to:
- Justify health and safety improvements using moral, financial and legal arguments
- Recognise key workplace health and safety duties and support effective contractor management
- Work within a health and safety management system and understand the role of a clear policy
- Influence health and safety culture and behaviour positively
- Apply a structured risk-assessment process and recommend suitable controls
- Manage the health and safety impact of workplace change
- Help develop safe systems of work, emergency arrangements and permit-to-work controls
- Participate in incident investigation and organisational learning
- Support monitoring, audit and management review activities
- Recognise common workplace hazards and recommend proportionate control measures
Benefits
For Learners | For Employers |
Build a broad foundation in occupational health and safety | Strengthen in-house capability to identify and control workplace risks |
Improve confidence when discussing risk and controls | Support consistent health and safety management across teams |
Apply practical risk-assessment skills at work | Improve incident prevention, learning and performance monitoring |
Support progression into HSE-focused responsibilities | Develop managers and supervisors who can contribute to a safer culture |
Create a platform for further professional study | Demonstrate commitment to worker health, safety and wellbeing |
Assessment Overview
Unit | Assessment Type | What the Learner Does | Guide Time |
GIC1 | Open book examination | Scenario-based written tasks that assess knowledge and application; followed by a closing interview about the learner’s submission | 5 hours |
GIC2 | Practical risk assessment | Workplace risk assessment and action plan demonstrating the learner’s ability to identify and control risks | 4 hours |
Pass Marks and Qualification Grade
GIC1 Provisional Pass Mark | 45% |
GIC1 Grade | Distinction: 75 or higher; Credit: 65-74; Pass: 45-64; Refer: 0-44 |
GIC2 Result | Pass or Refer; refer to the current GIC2 guidance for the applicable pass standard |
Overall Requirement | A Pass is required in both GIC1 and GIC2 |
Overall Grade | Based only on the GIC1 result after both units have been passed |
Assessment Marking | Completed by external examiners appointed by NEBOSH |
Course Progeression
The qualification is credit-rated at SCQF Level 6 with 11 SCQF credit points and is comparable to RQF/CQFW Level 3. NEBOSH also publishes professional-body recognition information for eligible holders. Membership requirements can change and may depend on assessment location, experience or other conditions, so applicants should check the current rules directly with the relevant professional body.
After the International General Certificate, learners may consider specialist NEBOSH certificates, environmental or process-safety study, incident-investigation qualifications, or higher-level NEBOSH Diploma pathways depending on their career goals.
$90.00
Course Information
- Lessons: 11
- Duration: 14 Days
- Course level: Beginners
- Study Mode: Online
- Language: English, Arabic & Urdu
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