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BLENDED CLASSROOM NEBOSH GENERAL CERTIFICATE

16th - 31st March 2009 Hull, East Yorkshire £1295+VAT

Registrations are welcome for open enrolment for those candidates wishing to attend a classroom based, tutor led NEBOSH General Certificate (NGC) at the Hessle Training centre in Hull, East Yorkshire. Candidates will be entered on the local exam on March 31st and will receive complimentary login to the NEBOSH e-learning programme. We have a 98% pass rate on classroom based NGC and enrolled students can start studying over the internet in advance preparation for the two week block study. Lunch and NEBOSH Study book included along with full tutorial for exam preparation.

The NEBOSH National General Certificate is established as a leading award in basic health and safety held by more than 65,000 people. This comprehensive NEBOSH Certificate course which concludes with a two-part written examination and practical safety assessment, gives an excellent grounding in the fundamentals of occupational health and safety management. Having completed NEBOSH Certificate course, you will have the competence and knowledge to recognise hazards and risks, analyse the significance of human factors such as attitudes and perception, and be able to report to senior management appropriate and cost-effective recommendations.

The NEBOSH National General Certificate is a qualification designed to help those with health and safety responsibilities (e.g. managers, supervisors and employee representatives) to discharge more effectively their organisational duties and functions. The NEBOSH National General Certificate is not a qualification for health and safety specialists, who should seek to obtain a professional qualification such as the NEBOSH National Diploma.

No previous health and safety knowledge is required but students must be able to write short reports.

NEBOSH National General Certificate Syllabus

The NEBOSH National General syllabus is divided into sixteen elements:

• Health and safety foundations
• Policy
• Organizing for health and safety
• Promoting a positive health and safety culture
• Risk assessment
• Principles of control
• Movement of people and vehicles - hazards and control
• Manual and mechanical handling hazards and control
• Work equipment hazards and control
• Electrical hazards and control
• Fire hazards and control
• Chemical and biological health hazards and control
• Physical and psychological health hazards and control
• Construction activities - hazards and control
• Incident investigation, recording and reporting
• Monitoring, review and audit

NEBOSH Examination Details - NEBOSH National General Cert

The examination comprises two 2-hour written papers (NEBOSH Exam Papers NGC1 and NGC2) and a practical assessment. Each written paper consists of one ‘long-answer’ question and ten ’short-answer’ questions. All questions are compulsory.

Please call Jonathan Pile on 01482 639510 for further information

NEBOSH course offered by STCS are delivered in association with SHEilds Ltd

Reckitt Benckiser

employees awarded certificates in manual handling

December 2008 – In an effort to protect staff and to avoid injury through mishandling heavy loads, 60 employees from Reckitt Benckiser’s Hull-based healthcare office this month received qualifications from another local business, SHEilds Training & Consultancy Services Ltd.(STCS), in CIEH Principles of Manual Handling. More than a third of all over-three-day reported injuries each year are caused by manual handling, with surveys of self-reported work-related illness estimating that 1.1 million people in Great Britain suffered from musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) caused or made worse by their current or past work.

Click the thumbnail to download A short guide to Manual Handling

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) qualification is designed to introduce candidates to the hazards and risks involved in manual handling and outlines what to expect from a manual handling assessment. The presentation of the certificates marks the first time that the two companies have worked together, as Reckitt Benckiser joins the large number of business that carry out manual handling training with STCS. X% of the healthcare company’s Hull-based employeescertificates. received the

Paul Bell, Managing Director of STCS, commented:

“We are delighted to be working with Reckitt Benckiser. As such an influential local business, it is reassuring to know that it takes the safety of its employees seriously. Training staff members in CIEH qualifications is a positive first step to reducing the occurrence of workplace accidents.”

Rachel Pearson, Training Coordinator at Reckitt Benckiser, said:

“The 60 employees who carried out the CIEH Principles of Manual Handling training with SHEilds have learnt a great deal from the course in terms of how to protect themselves from potential back injuries when lifting heavy items. As a leading consumer goods company, where day to day work often involves lots of lifting and carrying, health and safety training is especially important for Reckitt Benckiser employees.”

If you would like further information on how your business or you as an individual can benefit from Health and Safety training, please use our contact form call us on +44(0)1482 806805

SHEilds Training & Consultancy Services (STCS), part of the SHEilds Group, a Hull-based firm offering training in health and safety to both UK and international businesses, became the first registered centre to deliver the CIEH Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace in August.

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CIEH المستوى الثاني في جائزة الصحة والسلامة في مكان العمل | باستخدام اللغة العربي

Mabrouk delivers CIEH Courses in Arabic for STCS.

On Thursday November 20th , I delivered the FIRST ever CIEH level 2 Health & Safety in the Workplace course in ARABIC, to a group of five candidates originating from a number of Arabic speaking countries. I found the course most enjoyable to deliver, partly because I was able to deliver it in Arabic (my first language/first love!), and also as a result of the enthusiasm, and hunger for acquiring health and safety knowledge, demonstrated by the participants. The feedback from the candidates was very positive; in fact they asked me to arrange for them the CIEH Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace course, at the earliest possible opportunity!

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CIEH The need for workplace safety

When operating a food business of any type and size it can be all too easy to focus only upon Food Hygiene and the safety of the product, understandable perhaps when the amount of investment that will have been used to create a food safe environment with all of the attendant systems and procedures; but has the safety of employees been overlooked on the mission for food safety excellence.

Manufacturing injuries in the Food & Drink Industry

A quarter of all manufacturing injuries still occur in the food industry. In the ten year period April 1997 to March 2007 over 94,000 workers in the food and drink industries suffered an injury reportable to HSE and there were 37 fatal injuries (excluding contractors). The combined injury rate for food and drink industries is among the highest of manufacturing injury rates. Indeed the injury rate is 1.6 times the average for manufacturing industries generally and is 1.8 times that of the construction industry.

The main causes of injury continue to be:

• manual handling/musculoskeletal injury
• slips on wet or food contaminated floors
• falls from height
• workplace transport, Fork Lift Trucks (FLTs)
• struck by something (e.g. sharp knives or falling objects)
• machinery

So What are the Primary Causes of Fatal Injuries?

Of these, the main causes of fatal injury continue to be workplace transport (including FLTs), falls from height and machinery.

The main causes of occupational ill health continue to be:

• musculoskeletal injuries
• dermatitis
• noise
• occupational asthma
• rhinitis
• work related stress

Ref HSE website.

Diversity of the Food and Drink Manufacturing Industry & Workplace Health and Safety

When the diversity and type of food and drink manufacturing is considered it is easy to see the potential for this level of injuries, and then also consider the logistics of moving product from one location to another and delivery to customer the situation takes on a greater level of enormity.
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CIEH Environmental Awareness Training course

SHEilds Training and Consultancy Services (STCS) are pleased to announce the successful delivery of our first ever Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Environmental Awareness Training course. The course was delivered to a major supplier within the UK food chain industry and all candidates passed with great success; that’s a 100% percent pass rate!! Which, has encouraged STCS to develop an on-line distance E-learning course version of the CIEH Environmental Awareness Training qualification. The Environmental Awareness course via distance elearning is currently under development and will be available to students within the very near future. STCS plan to release a range of other CIEH awards to be studied via e-learning. STCS indent to continue the ongoing expansion of the CIEH level awards and training programs both for classroom delivery and distance e-learning.
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STCS | CCNSG Safety Passport accreditation

In September 2008 SHEilds Training and Consultancy Services Ltd (STCS) gained full ECITB accreditation to deliver the highly valued ECITB - CCNSG Safety Passport scheme along with the refresher course (Safety Passport Renewal) joining the small number of other organizations to do so in the UK.

The ECITB / CCNSG Qualification

Gaining the qualification with STCS comes with a range of benefits to both employer and employees.
Developed to nationally recognised standards the qualification is valued by environmental health professionals as it promotes good practice and safer working environments and can also help to reduce insurance premiums and minimise the risk of litigation. ECITB / CCNSG accredited training can also help to extend the duration of employment and reduces recruitment costs. Managing Director of STCS, Paul Bell says “Already STCS is experiencing a staggering response towards this newly acquired ECITB CCNSG course.”

All CCNSG training is delivered at the STCS Training Centre based in Hessle, near Hull, North Yorkshire, UK by trainers who are all appropriately trained and accredited in the subjects they deliver. Alternate training venues can be arranged throughout the UK and also the Middle East (Dubai, Qatar etc), where STCS has seen that the CCNSG qualification is of an even higher demand in these regions.

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The Client / Contractor National Safety Group & the CNSG Safety Passport

It is a legal requirement that all employers provide Health and Safety training for their staff. The Client/Contractor National Safety Group (CCNSG) Safety Passport Scheme is a high profile qualification and ensures a basic knowledge of health and safety for all site personnel to enable them, after appropriate site induction, to work on site more safely with lower risk to themselves and others.
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CIEH Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in the workplace

STCS are one of the first companies in the UK and globally who can offer the new CIEH Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace; Paul Bell, Managing Director of STCS Ltd has this to say about this new award :

“This CIEH training course is suitable for a whole variety of situations and the design of the course is such that that our company can deliver this qualification to large sized groups of learners and the fact that it can be successfully delivered in half a day allows employers a time saving and cost effective route to accredited training”.

It’s a legal requirement for employers to provide health and safety training to their staff. The new CIEH Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace provides a quick, concise and practical starting point from which more detailed training can follow.

This half day ground breaking award is set to change the way companies consider health and safety, this qualification acts as a punchy outline of the basics of health and safety that will protect both the candidate and their fellow workers in all areas of employment.

The first step to more in depth Health and Safety Training

CIEH Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in the workplace

The CIEH Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace is the first step to more in depth Health and Safety training; this could be job specific training or even the start of a development path for a person wishing to become more involved in the field of health and safety.

“This CIEH training course can easily be adapted to the needs of a client’s organisation and would be an obvious business choice to be used as part of an induction programme; the nature of the course is to engage the candidate by promoting self thought as a significant aspect of continuous improvement in health and safety competence”

“The response since STCS started offering this new award has been quite staggering; we are working in conjunction with the CIEH and the Business Mail on a programme of delivering this and the CIEH Level 1 Award in Food Safety as free promotion during August. A Dubai based client of ours is looking for STCS to deliver this qualification across the Middle East”.