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Posted By neill burns
hello everyone what a good forum i have been the health and safety rep at my company for 3 years and a bit now been on a rospa course for 3days in birmingham however i want to choose h&s as my career i work in a large utility company im a high voltage cable jointer installing new substations,i spoke to our h%s manager this week and he says in the new year he is going to pay for me to do the nebosh construction cert in our dept we have no permanent h&s manager on the electrical side only on the water side and he is based in wales were in the north west so i was wondering what other courses to do aswell has he said they will pay also should i do open/distant learning or block release thanks again guys hope to hear off you all soon
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Posted By Glyn Atkinson
That's a heck of a long sentence to take in one breath.
Not too easy to look through, and a lot of potential employers would turn off the theme before the end.
May I humbly suggest that you consider reconstructing the thread's 1st post, giving a location of desired work requirements, and also breaking up your thoughts into proper sentences and paragraph so that it is clearer to any readers.
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Posted By neill burns
hi glyn i wasnt looking for a job just advice mate
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Posted By Mart
Complete and achieve the NEBOSH first. There's alot of course content to take in. Good Luck.
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Posted By Simon Zeigler
like you I am a safety rep, I have done the Nebosh gen cert, but now I am on a Pg Dip/ MSc in occupational health and safety. may be worth looking at. you cant go far without a full Iosh membership. A masters will get you that.
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Posted By Mart
"Without a full IOSH membership you can't go far". There will be many people who disagree with that. I for one.
Dr Keeler Tech IOSH
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Posted By neill burns
thanks guys im gonna do the construction cert any tips would be useful or any other courses that you think might help me do the cons cert.again tyvm
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Posted By Simon Zeigler
When I did my Nebosh I found a revision disk from a trainer on ebay. I found it very useful.
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Posted By William
I would say the best advice to give you when studying is to get good books with all the information you need, there is nothing worse than hunting around for the information and spending more time trying to locate it than studying it.
There is tons of useful health and safety resources on ebay, only just last week i got a copy of the 2006 "Tolley's health and safety at work handbook" for £10, not bad about a £70-£80 saving, also go an old ridley safety at work book for £2:50, both excellent sources of info. The Tolleys one was the best i dont think i would have got it for £10 if the person had spelt the name as "Tolley's" instead of "Tooley's", so a handy tip when searching ebay is to just type in safety and do a trawl through, or just type in safety book, i have just checked and there are a few on there.
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Posted By Hasitha Ratnayake
Hi Neill,
With my experience with NEBOSH, I would say that tutor support might be needed if you are not quite familiar with syllabus. So, you would have to decide how you could afford to do it. It is a good thing that the company is paying you. But don't stop after certificate and suggest you do the diploma level too. Some universities accept this as the requirement for masters level entry. Once you start the studies, you will find which area you would want to specialise in. Then you could go on acquiring specialised knowledge in that area to increase your human capital.
Good luck mate.
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Posted By neill burns
thank you all just received the nebosh guide to the nebosh cert in construction and june 2006 paper 1 paper 2 could any of you answer any of these questions for me then i know what they expect i.e answers here is one for you all Q1 give reasons why a verbal instruction may not be clearly understood by a site operative [8] and its not because hes polish lol
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Posted By ITK CMIOSH
A very pertinent point you make, with the influx of migrant workers particularly in construction this could well be a barrier to understanding instructions...!
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Posted By Colleen H
Hi Neil, well you said it language barrier may well be one reason. The operative may not hear you clearly due to surrounding noise, the use of PPE i.e. ear defenders etc or may not be able to see you clearly. A large percentage of communication is about what we see. He may not have clearly understood exactly what you were saying. It's always helpful to ask questions to ensure he's understood or to paraphrase, get him to repeat the instruction.
Hope this helps and good luck with the course.
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Posted By William
I think the most likely reason would be that if you were not putting your point across in lay mans terms.
You need to speak to the person as someone would works alongside him, do not use words or jargon which he may not understand.
This may seem a touch patronising to say this but most tradesmen did not stay on and do A level English and would feel you were being a bit of a smart Alec (can think of a better phrase but cant use it) if you used words they did not understand, i think this piece of advice will be important if you want to be any good at influencing workers behaviour as they will understand you more easily and also respect you as being someone who knows what their jobs is about.
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Posted By neill burns
thanks guys may need a little help when im doing the course have a good xmas
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