NEBOSH GNC1 Study Guide (2025 Syllabus)

Learning Outcome and Assessment Criteria

Understand how to justify health and safety improvements using moral, financial and legal arguments.

• Discuss the moral, financial and legal reasons for managing health and safety in the workplace

• Recognise how health and safety is regulated

Understand when the main duties for health and safety apply to the workplace

• Recognise the main health and safety duties of employers and workers in HSWA 1974 and MHSWR
1999

Understand the important role that contractors undertake in the workplace and how they should be
managed.

• Describe how contractors should be selected, monitored and managed

• Identify the different roles and responsibilities under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

Moral, Financial and Legal Arguments to Manage Health & Safety

• Morals and Money
• Sources and Types of Law
• Statute Law and Levels of Duty

Health & Safety Duties in the Workplace

• Common Law
• Criminal Law
• Civil Law
• The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Contractors

• Managing Contractors
• Roles and Duties Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

Learning Outcome and Assessment Criteria

Work within a health and safety management system, and know what an effective health and safety
policy should look like

• Identify the key components of a health and safety management system (ISO 45001 and HSG65)
• Recognise the benefits and limitations of different types of health and safety management systems
• Recognise the key components of an effective health and safety policy

Overview of the Elements of a Health & Safety Management System

• The Basics of Management Systems and the HSG65 Model
• Introduction to ISO45001 – An International Standard
• Benefits and Limitations of Certified/Informal OH&S Management Systems

Effective Health & Safety Management Systems

• What Good H&S Management Systems Look Like
• Roles and Responsibilities of Directors, Managers and Supervisors

Learning Outcome and Assessment Criteria

Positively influence health and safety culture and behaviour to improve performance in their organisation.

• Recognise how health and safety culture influences performance

• Recognise how to improve health and safety culture at work

• Outline how human factors influence behaviour in a way that can affect health and safety

• Assess general workplace risks.

• Apply the principles of the risk assessment process

• Produce a suitable and sufficient risk assessment

• Understand the impact of workplace changes on health safety and how these changes can be managed.

• Describe how change can have significant health and safety impacts and how to manage those impacts.

• Develop safe systems of work and emergency procedures, and know how to use them appropriately.

• Outline what to consider when developing and implementing a safe system of work for general work activities.

• Identify the role, function, and operation of a permit-to-work system.

• Understand typical emergency procedures (including training and testing) and how to decide what level of first aid is needed in the workplace.

Health and Safety Culture

• Health and Safety Culture

Improving Health and Safety Culture

• Senior Management – Gaining Commitment and Promoting Standards
• Competent Workers
• Good Communication Within the Organisation
• Cooperation and Consultation with the Workforce and Contractors

Human Factors

• Human Factors

Risk Assessment

• Meaning of Hazard, Risk, Risk Profiling and Risk Assessment
• Step 1: Identify the Hazards
• Step 2: Assess the Risk
• Step 3: Control The Risks – Part 1: Principles of Prevention
• Step 3: Control The Risks – Part 2: The Hierarchy of Controls
• Step 3: Control The Risks – Part 3: Other Considerations
• Step 4: Record the Significant Findings
• Step 5: Review the Risk Assessment
• Risk Assessment for Specific Risks
• Special Case Applications

The Management of Change

• The Management of Change

Safe Systems of Work

• Safe Systems of Work
• Permit-to-Work Systems
• Emergency Procedures
• First Aid

Learning Outcome and Assessment Criteria

Take part in incident investigation.

• Recognise why and how incidents should be investigated, recorded, and reported

Help their employer to monitor the effectiveness of their health and safety management system.

• Recognise how to monitor the effectiveness of management systems

• Recognise why and how audits are used to evaluate a management system

• Recognise why regular reviews of health and safety performance are needed and how they are carried out

Incident Investigation

• What Are Incidents and Why Should They Be Investigated
• The Levels of Incident Investigation
• The Steps to Incident Investigation
• Why and How Incidents Should be Recorded and Reported
• RIDDOR – Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

Monitoring and Measuring

• Monitoring and Measuring Performance
• Active Monitoring Methods
• Reactive Monitoring Measures

Auditing and Reviewing Performance

• Health and Safety Auditing
• Review of the Health and Safety Performance