Posted By Mole No matter how you look at it you passed, congratulations and well done. I have spoken to several people who just sat certificate course all with good sound backgrounds, and most of which also only scapped thro' the practical. It would appear that only those with minimal knowledge of practical application to safety have faired well. In other words it's the way you answered...NEBOSH speak strikes again. When will they realise that experience means a hell of a lot.

Posted By Nick Higginson Aj, It's disappointing when you aim high and don't get what you want, but try and take heart in the fact that you got 1-1 in the written papers. Not many people get that. Now send in those application forms for Part One Diploma - There's no practical! Regards, Nick

Posted By Dave Richardson I took my Nebosh certificate back in 1995 when I was still in the forces. After 23 years in the submarine service as an engineer I left the Navy not really knowing was sort of work I could get into. I spent 12 months as a supervisor working on a production manufacturing line before taking over the role as part time safety officer. Since then I have become a competent noise assessor and I have implemented ISO 14001 at my previouse plant. I am now a Safety and environmental officer at a plant employing 850 people. I still only have my Nebosh certificate. It's not that I don't want to gain full membership to IOSH because I do. I just don't seem to have the time to study for exams and my employer doesn't seem to want to stump up £4000 for the NVQ route. I know I'm a good safety and environment officer (so far as is reasonably practicable) because my track record shows it. It's the knowledge and experience you aquire and how you use it rather than the exams you take. Use what you've got and move forward. Dave

Posted By Bob Youel As a holder of the NEBOSH Diploma and others and after being involved over many years with various training / certification providers both in the UK and Europe [High Level degrees [Mathmatics / Physics etc]throught to a basic City and Guilds / CITB type programme] as a trainer and manager of numbers of employees who were put through professional exams etc my experience indicates that NEBOSH is the least helpful of any organisation that I have dealt with. This comment has been seconded on many an occasion by people at all levels in the profession. A number of people I have dealings with recently moved from NEBOSH to the Nottingham Trent programme and all agreed that it was much more streight forward and more information was freely given re exam assignment failures etc.