For years we have been wondering who would turn the right key and find a range of short duration Health & Safety courses to supplement the popular IOSH Managing Safely and Nebosh General Certificate products to assist UK management and workforce develop their Health & Safety Competence, and whilst IOSH have offered a valuable 1-day awareness module in the shape of the Working Safely course, the new offering from the British Safety Council has struck a chord with us because of its variety and simplicity.
In a first trial year we are happy to offer the following choices to new and existing Mesh-4-Safety clients:
- a 2 day version of the “Safely Supervising Staff – Level 2 qualification“
- a 1 day “Level 2 in Risk Assessment“
- a 1 day “Level 2 in Manual Handling Risk Assessment“
- a 1 day “Level 2 in Fire Risk Assessments“
The beauty if the BSC courses is that as the training provider you can concentrate on the candidate’s learning experience whilst the BSC themselves together with the delegate take care of the administrative site of certification.
Once they have attended a course, participants will have to apply to British Safety Council awards ,undertake an externally verified assessment, and will as a result receive a nationally recognised certificate upon successful completion of the assessment.
In addition to relieving the training provider of the administrative burden, the candidate is also encouraged to start implementing in their working environment what they have just learned in a classroom environment, a winning formula all round in our humble opinion.
At Mesh-4-Safety we have scheduled a quarterly open course for each of the above listed modules, but frankly expect a huge demand for in-house run sessions of these, especially now that they lead to a nationally recognised award.
Patrick Jongbloet, Director, Mesh-4-Safety Ltd.