NEBOSH IDP

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Unit IA

  1. Reasons for Managing Health and Safety;
  2. Societal Factors Influencing Standards and Priorities;
  3. Health & Safety Management System Models
  4. Why we need Health and Safety Management System
  5. Principles and Content of Effective Health and Safety Management System

Additional Resources

  1. Section Summary

1. Comparative Governmental and Socio-Legal Models

    1. Role, Function, and Limitations of Legislation
    2. Nature, Benefits, and Limitations of ‘Goal-Setting’ and ‘Prescriptive’ Legal Models
    3. Loss Events in Terms of Failures in the Duty of Care to Protect Individuals and Compensatory Mechanisms that May be Available

2. Purpose of Enforcement and Laws of Contract

    1. Purpose of Enforcement
    2. Principles of Enforcement with Reference to the HSE’s Enforcement Policy Statement (HSE41)
    3. Laws of Contract

3. Role and Limitations of the International Labour Organisation in a Global Health and Safety Setting

    1. Role of the United Nations
    2. Roles and Responsibilities of ‘National Governments’, ‘Enterprises’ and ‘Workers’: R164 Occupational
    3. Safety and Health Recommendation 1981
    4. Use of International Conventions as a Basis for Setting National Systems of Health and Safety Legislation

4. Role of Non-Governmental Bodies and Health and Safety Standards

    1. Relevant Influential Parties
    2. Importance of Print, Broadcast, and Social Media in a Global Economy
    3. Benefits of Schemes Which Promote Co-operation on Health and Safety Between Different Companies
    4. Adverse Effects on Business Reputation
    5. An Organisation’s Moral Obligations to Raise Standards Within their Supply Chains
    6. Meaning of ‘Self-Regulation’
    7. Role and Function of Corporate Governance in a System of Self-Regulation

Additional Resources

  1. IA2 Summary

1. Theories/Models and Use of Loss Causation Techniques

    1. Accident/Incident Ratio Studies
    2. Domino and Multi-Causality Theories
    3. Single Cause Domino Theory
    4. Reason’s Model of Accident Causation
    5. Behavioural Root Cause Analysis

2. Quantitative Analysis of Accident and Ill-Health Data

    1. Calculating Loss Rates from Raw Data
    2. Presenting and Interpreting Loss Event Data
    3. Principles of Statistical Variability, Validity and the Use of Distributions
    4. Study Question

3. Reporting and Recording of Loss Events (Injuries, Ill Health, Dangerous Occurrences) and Near Misses

    1. Reporting Requirements and Procedures
    2. Internal Reporting and Recording

4. Loss and Near-Miss Investigations

    1. Implied Legal Requirements
    2. Reasons for Carrying Out Investigations
    3. Benefits of Carrying Out Investigations
    4. Investigation Procedures and Methodologies
    5. Communications Focusing on Remedial Actions and Lessons Learnt

Additional Resources

  1. IA3 Summary

1. Purpose and Use of Health and Safety Performance

    1. Meaning of Health and Safety Performance Measurement
    2. Need for Active and Reactive Measures
    3. Meaning of Key Performance Indicators
    4. Types, Benefits and Limitations of Leading and Lagging Indicators
    5. Assessment of the Health and Safety Objectives and Arrangements
    6. Review of Current Management Systems

2. Health and Safety Monitoring

    1. Objectives of Monitoring
    2. Limitations of Accident and Ill-Health Data as a Performance Measure
    3. Distinctions Between, and Applicability of, Performance Measures

3. Health and Safety Monitoring and Measuring Techniques

    1. Range of Measures Available to Evaluate an Organisation’s Performance
    2. Collection and Use of Sickness Absence and Ill-Health Data
    3. Role, Purpose and Key Elements of Measurement Techniques
    4. The In-house Health and Safety Practitioner’s Role in Audits Carried Out by Third
    5. Comparisons of Performance Data
    6. Use and Benefits of Benchmarking

4. Reviewing Health and Safety Performance

    1. Formal and Informal Reviews of Performance
    2. Review Process

Additional Resources

  1. IA4 Summary
  2. IA4 Questions & Answers

1. Sources of Information Used in Identifying Hazards and Assessing Risk

  1. Accident/Incident and Ill-Health Data and Rates
  2. External Information Sources
  3. Internal Information Sources
  4. Uses and Limitations of Information Sources

2. Hazard Identification Techniques

  1. Hazard Detection Techniques
  2. Importance of Worker Input

3. Assessment and Evaluation of Risk

  1. Key Steps in a Risk Assessment
  2. Use and Limitation of Generic, Specific and Dynamic Risk Assessments
  3. Limitations of Risk Assessment Processes
  4. Temporary and Non-Routine Situations
  5. Consideration of Long-Term Hazards to Health
  6. Types of Risk Assessment
  7. Organizational Arrangements for an Effective Risk Assessment Programme
  8. Acceptability/Tolerability of Risk

4. Systems Failures and System Reliability

  1. Meaning of the Term ‘System’
  2. Principles of System Failure Analysis
  3. Using Calculations in the Assessment of System Reliability
  4. Methods for Improving System Reliability

5. Failure Tracing Methodologies

  1. A Guide to Basic Probability
  2. Principles and Techniques of Failure Tracing Methods in the Assessment of Risk

Additional Resources

  1. IA5 Summary
  2. IA5 Questions & Answers

1. Common Risk Management Strategies

    1. Concepts Within a Health and Safety Management System
    2. Circumstances When Each of the Previous Strategies Would be Appropriate
    3. Factors to be Considered in the Selection of an Optimum Solution Based on Relevant Risk Data
    4. Principles and Benefits of Risk Management in a Global Perspective
    5. Link Between Outcomes of Risk Assessments and Development of Risk Controls

2. Factors to Be Taken Into Account When Selecting Risk Controls

    1. Preventive and Protective Measures
    2. Determine Technical/Procedural/Behavioural Control Measures
    3. Factors Affecting Choice of Control Measures

3. Safe Systems of Work and Permit-to-Work Systems

    1. Safe Systems of Work
    2. Permit-to-Work Systems
    3. Use of Risk Assessment in the Development of Safe Systems of Work and Safe Operating Procedures

Additional Resources

1.     Types of Safety Leadership

  1. Meaning of Safety Leadership.
  2. Types of Safety Leadership
  3. Behavioral Attributes of an Effective Leader

2.     Benefits of Effective Health and Safety Leadership

  • Leadership As a Core Element of Effective Health and Safety Management
  • Benefits of Effective Safety Leadership on Organisational Health and Safety Culture and Performance
  • Link Between Effective Leadership and Employee Engagement
  • Encouraging Positive Leadership for a Safe and Healthy Workplace
  • Corporate Social Responsibility

3.     Internal and External Influences

  • Internal Influences on Health and Safety
  • External Influences on Health and Safety Within an Organisation

4.     Types of Organisations

  • Concept of the Organisation as a System
  • Organizational Structures and Functions
  • Organisational Goals and Those of the Individual: Potential Conflict
  • Integration of Goals of the Organisation with the Needs of the Individual

5.     Third-Party Control

  • Identifying Third Parties
  • Reasons for Ensuring Third Parties are Covered by Health and Safety Management Systems
  • Basic Duties Owed To and By Third Parties
  • Selection, Appointment, and Control of Contractors
  • Responsibilities for Control of Risk Associated with Contractors on Site
  • Provision of Information Relating to Hazards/Risks to Third Parties
  • Review of Contractor Performance

6.     Consultation with Workers

  1. Role of Consultation Within the Workplace
  2. Formal Consultation
  3. Informal Consultation
  4. Behavioral Aspects Associated with Consultation
  5. Role of the Health and Safety Practitioner in the Consultative Process

7.     Health and Safety Culture and Climate

  1. Introduction
  2. Influence of Health and Safety Culture on Behaviour and the Effect of Peer Group Pressure and Norms
  3. Impact of Organisational Cultural Factors on Individual Behaviour
  4. Indicators of Culture
  5. Correlation Between Health and Safety Culture/Climate and Health and Safety Performance
  6. Measurement of the Health and Safety Culture and Climate

8.     Factors Affecting Health and Safety Culture and Climate

  • Promoting a Positive Health and Safety Culture
  • Factors that May Promote a Negative Health and Safety Culture or Climate
  • Effecting Cultural or Climate Change
  • Problems and Pitfalls Relating to Change

Additional Resources

  1. IA7 – Summary
  2. IA7 – Questions & Answers

1. Human Psychology, Sociology, and Behaviour

  1. Meaning of Terms
  2. Influences on Human Behaviour
  3. Key Theories of Human Motivation
  4. Factors Affecting Behaviour

2. Perception of Risk

  1. Human Sensory Receptors
  2. Perception
  3. Errors in Perception Caused by Physical Stressors
  4. Perception and the Assessment of Risk

3. Human Failure Classification

  1. HSG48, Classification of Human Failure
  2. Cognitive Processing
  3. Knowledge-, Rule- and Skill-Based Behaviour (Rasmussen)
  4. Contribution of Human Error to Serious Incidents

4. Improving Individual Human Reliability in the Workplace

  1. Motivation and Reinforcement
  2. Selection of Individuals
  3. Health Surveillance

5. Organizational Factors

  1. Effect of Weaknesses in the Health and Safety Management System on the Probability of Human Failure
  2. Influence of Formal and Informal Groups
  3. Organizational Communication Mechanisms and their Impact on Human Failure Probability

6. Job Factors

  1. Effect of Job Factors on the Probability of Human Error
  2. Application of Task Analysis
  3. Role of Ergonomics in Job Design
  4. Ergonomically-Designed Control Systems
  5. Relationship Between Physical Stressors and Human Reliability
  6. Effects of Under-Stimulation, Fatigue, and Stress on Human Reliability

7. Behavioural Change Programmes

  1. Principles of Behavioural Change Programmes
  2. Organizational Conditions Needed for Success in Behavioural Change Programmes
  3. Example of Typical Behavioural Change Programme Contents

Additional Resources

  1. IA8 – Summary
  2. IA8 – Questions & Answers

1. Role of the Health and Safety Practitioner

  1. Role of the Health and Safety Practitioner
  2. Meaning of the Term ‘Competence’
  3. Need for Health and Safety Practitioners to Evaluate their Own Practice
  4. Health and Safety Practitioner – Mentoring and Supporting
  5. Distinction Between Leadership and Management
  6. Need to Adopt Different Management Styles
  7. Role of the Health and Safety Practitioner on Safety Management Systems
  8. Meaning of the Term Sensible Risk Management
  9. Enabling Work Activities as Part of Proportionate Risk Management
  10. Organizational Risk Profiling
  11. Contribution of the Health and Safety Practitioner in Achieving the Objectives of An Organisation
  12. Ethics and the Application of Ethical Principles

2. Effective Communication and Negotiation Skills

  1. Effective Communication
  2. Need for Consultation and Negotiation
  3. Influencing Ownership of Health and Safety
  4. Importance of Receiving and Acting on Feedback
  5. Different Methods of Communication
  6. Procedures for Resolving Conflict and Introducing Change
  7. Ensuring Roles and Responsibilities are Clear, Understood, and Implemented by Workers

3. Use of Financial Justification

  1. Significance of Budgetary Responsibility
  2. Recognizing the Responsible Budget Holder
  3. Cost-Benefit Analysis
  4. Internal and External Sources of Information
  5. Short- and Long-Term Budgetary Planning

Additional Resources

  1. IA9 – Summary
  2. IA9 – Questions & Answers

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