Posted By Catman Hi There Mark Act Associates offer a construction conversion course. Have a google for NEBOSH construction certificate conversion. No idea if it is any good, maybe someone else has? Cheers TW

Posted By colin Regardless of whether you have the general certificate or not, You still have to take all 3 sections of the exams, both written exams and the practical. The only way you benefit is that you can take a shorter "conversion" course. Personally I think this sucks, The fire cert allow you to miss the GC exam, why can't the const cert be modified to offer the same ? such as a "conversion course exam" which covers the 3 extra units that the construction cert contains, it would probably work out to be a 3 hour exam rather than 2x2 hours The best way for students would be to unitise all the sections in all 3 nebosh certificate courses

Posted By Teresa Budworth This reply is from NEBOSH. At present the Construction Certificate and National General Certificate are separate qualifications and holding one does not exempt you from any part of the other. However, we are amending our Certificate qualifications right now. From December 2006 the National General Certificate will be "Unitised" with the aim that you can add other modules or units to it, to build extra Certificate qualifications tailored to your needs without having to be re-examined on the same material twice. The Fire Certificate, as a new qualification, uses the same management of health and safety unit as the National General Certificate already. The Construction Certificate doesn't YET, but we will be working on that in the next 3-6 months. Our qualifications are accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) which is a Government body, so we have to gain their approval for any changes we make. If everything goes smoothly with QCA then the new format "unitised" Construction Certificate will be ready for roll out to the course providers by June 2007. This change may be too far off to be of benefit to you right now. However, although you won't be exempt from the examination, some of our Construction Certificate providers do offer a shorter course programme for people who already hold the General Certificate. The list of course providers is on the NEBOSH web site at www.nebosh.org.uk