NEBOSH INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMA FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS

Thank you, our esteemed learner, for choosing Safeguard for your Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) exceptional learning experience. We are the leading global learning partner of the UK National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH). We offer a total of 17 NEBOSH courses making us the largest NEBOSH Learning Partner and qualifications provider in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Safeguard is also among the top 10 NEBOSH Learning Partner globally, with over 85% pass rate in examinations. We also offer, the UK CQI-IRCA Approved, Lead Auditor courses and company certifications in 7 standards in partnership with TVE International Academy (ATP: 6023829). We are Africa’s largest QHSE training solutions provider, facilitator, and consultants since 1999. We welcome you to be part of our success story.

COURSE OVERVIEW

NEBOSH qualifications with high pass rate globally are provided by Safeguard, a NEBOSH Accredited Learning Partner 1332 with silver status. You can part of our NEBOSH Diploma Virtual Classes from any location in the world. You can also write your Scenario-based case study open book exam and Practical Assignment from the comfort of your home or your workplace without the need to travel out of your location.

The Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management Professionals gives you the knowledge and skills you will need to perform as a leading health and safety professional of the future. You will gain confidence in your capabilities to recognize and solve everyday health and safety issues and take opportunities for improvement. This advanced international health and safety qualification will support your academic and career progression. This qualification is a perfect choice for anyone who aspires to make health and safety their career. Building upon the foundation of knowledge provided by the NEBOSH International General Certificate. This is a replacement qualification for the NEBOSH International Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety. The NEBOSH Diploma is rated as Degree level program and an equivalent of a post-graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety and therefore accepted for enrollment in a master’s degree program in Occupational Health and Safety globally.

The NEBOSH International Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Professional is a highly valued and recognized health and safety qualification globally. It has become the highest requirement for high-flying local and international qualification for health and safety professionals. With the NEBOSH OHS International Diploma, you have greatest opportunities to work for not only multi-national and trans-national organizations but also to seek employment opportunities globally in any country of your choice.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

The Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management Professionals is particularly relevant for:

• Health and safety professionals or those with aspirations to be one.
• People with health and safety responsibilities who want to gain an in-depth understanding.

HOW IT WILL HELP LEARNERS?

This advanced international health and safety qualification will support your academic and career progression. Success will mean you:

• Gain health and safety skills and knowledge that are relevant in many different sectors operating across the globe.
• Develop professional skills so you can lead and influence health and safety issues at all levels.
• Hold a qualification that is recognized and respected internationally by employers and your peers.
• Meet the academic requirements to apply for membership of numerous professional bodies.
• Achieve a sound basis for progression to postgraduate study.
• Can use the designatory letters IDipNEBOSH.
• Are eligible to become a member of the NEBOSH Alumni.

ADVANTAGES FOR EMPLOYERS

This qualification has been developed with experts for experts and offers employers real benefits. NEBOSH Diploma holders can help to:

• Build in-house health and safety expertise
• Develop a safer workplace
• Improve safety culture
• Demonstrate a commitment to health and safety, which can ultimately help win business How is it assessed?

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Safeguard strongly insist that only learners who have undertaken and are successful in the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety should enroll for diploma program. The syllabus assumes that learners will have this level of prior learning.

It is important that learners have a suitable standard of English language to understand and articulate the concepts contained in the syllabus. NEBOSH recommends that learners undertaking this qualification should reach a minimum standard of English equivalent to an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 7.0 or higher in IELTS tests.

NOTIONAL LEARNING HOURS

A break-down of the notional learning hours is given in the following tables:

ASSESSMENTS

The assessments focus on the application of knowledge to help you prepare for the health and safety tasks faced in the workplace. All assessments can be completed remotely i.e., do not require you to attend an invigilated examination venue.

• ID1 – Know – workplace health and safety principles: Assignment - workplace-based tasks together with simulations and reflective statements and a research topic
• ID2 – Do – controlling workplace health issues: Scenario-based case study
• ID3 – Do – controlling workplace safety issues: Scenario-based case study

Assessment Release and Submission

The release date is the date that you will be able to download the assessment paper and start work on your assessment. Your completed assessment must then be uploaded/submitted to NEBOSH by the date specified.

Once you have submitted your assessment for marking, you will be required to go through a ‘post assessment interview’ with your Learning Partner. In addition, each assessment will be submitted to anti- plagiarism software to help identify possible cases of plagiarism/malpractice.

Assessment Results

You will receive your results 50 working days after the submission date for your assessment. A unit certificate will be issued 20 working days after the notification date for each successful unit.

Once you have passed all three-unit assessments (ID1/ID2/ID3) your combined percentage mark will give your overall grade for the qualification (Distinction/Credit/Pass).

Distinction: 226 or higher

Credit: 196 – 225

Pass: 150 – 195

A qualification parchment will be issued 20 working days after the results notification date for the third successful unit.

MOVING FROM OLD ENROLMENTS AND UNIT PASSES TO THE NEW SPECIFICATIONS

As the syllabus content and assessment formats have changed, it will not be possible to transfer between specifications. If you wish to do this, you must enroll onto the new specification and take all unit assessments for this specification.

RE-SITTING UNIT(S)

You may re-sit a unit assessment if:

• you achieved a ‘Pass’ in a unit that is five or more years old and you need it to achieve the qualification;
• you are ‘Referred’ (i.e., don’t pass); or
• you want to retake a Unit to get a higher grade.

There is no limit to the number of times you can re-sit unit(s) within the five-year period. Re-sit marks are not capped. If you want to try to improve your grade in a Unit, you need to tell NEBOSH in writing within 20 working days of the declaration date of your successful unit.

ENROLMENT DURATION

You will have five years to complete your qualification. The five-year period starts from the date you passed your first successful unit (we call this the ‘declaration date’). Any unit that is five or more years old will not count towards the qualification and you will need to retake the unit(s) if you still want to complete the qualification.

DESIGNATORY LETTERS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Holders of the NEBOSH International Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management Professionals may use the designatory letters ‘IDipNEBOSH’ after their name. In addition, once you have your qualification parchment (have completed the qualification) it is anticipated that you will be able to apply for the following memberships:

PAYMENT AND REGISTRATION

Cash payment is not allowed. Payment in any convenient instalment is allowed starting with a minimum of 50% of the total training fee before receipt of training materials, however candidate must complete payment in full 3 days before class start date. 

To register, make payment, then fill and return the Registration Form and the Joining Agreement in addition to your Evidence of Payment and scanned copy of Valid Photo ID (such as International Passport, Driver’s License or National Identity Card) to: safeguardsafety.international@gmail.com (for international learners). 

Card payment in can be made via Flutterwave Safeguard Payment App Link: https://flutterwave.com/pay/safeguardresourcesandtechnologieslimitedupfh 

Payment can also be by transfer made in favour of Safeguard Resources and Technologies Limited. See bank details below 

Once payment is confirmed, you will receive an acknowledgment including an e-receipt and other details about the training including the training materials.

Traning Locations:

You can join our NEBOSH WEL Virtual Classroom or the distance learning program from any location globally and write your Practical Risk Assessment from the comfort of your home and workplace without the need to travel out of your location.

• Port Harcourt Training Center:#6C, Forces Avenue, Before SPAR Back Gate, Old G.R.A Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
• Lagos Training Center:#2, Tokunbo Alli Street, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja, Lagos State.

Training Modes

Physical Classroom

• Safeguard physical classroom study allows you to get away from the distractions from workplaces and homes to enable concentrate on your training until completion.
• It provides learners a great opportunity to condense their study within the training the days compared to our Distance Learning Program which can be studied over a relatively longer period.
• The classroom setting allows learners to learn in our safe, quiet, clean multi-media training laboratory, away from the noise and pressures of their work or their homes.
• Again, learners could be large which allows the classroom environment to provide the important “human touch” that teaches learners how to interact physically with one another in a professional, productive and cooperative way which is often missing in distance learning program.
• The course fee cover training materials, tutorials, revision class, mock examination, main examination, in addition to tea break and lunch break.

Live Virtual Classroom

• If you have the time for classroom study but you are not available to join our classroom session due to distance or location, then our Live Virtual Class is your best alternative.
• Our live virtual class is easy to follow and can be completed within the same time as the physical classroom. Learners can join remotely and learn ‘live’ online with a tutor just as they would in a classroom.
• You get all the benefits of structured classroom learning but with the convenience of the digital world, studying where you like. Our learners can remotely join the virtual class from any location in the world through live video conferencing with the Zoom Technology using a PC, laptop, tablet or a smart phone.
• Learners are advised to download and install the Zoom application in their devices for this purpose and secure a reliable internet service in advance to enable access to the live virtual class.
• Throughout the course, learners can see and interact with the tutor and with other learners. Group interaction enhances learning; learners learn from one another as well as from the tutor.
• Our live virtual class provides practical, flexible and convenient ways of learning, designed to fit around you and your needs.
• Learners are able to drop questions on the chat box in group or private chat the Tutor and learners can also request to ask questions while the training is going on.
• Daily take-home assignment will be posted in chat box and on the group WhatsApp which will be reviewed by the tutor at the beginning of each day’s tutorial.
• There will be workbook and course workbook which will be completed by learners and submitted for tutor’s evaluation.
• A revision class and a mock examination will be arranged to prepare learners for the final examination.

Corporate Classes

• Organizations that are sponsoring learners to join our physical classroom, virtual classroom or distance learning program will have to pay the corporate course fees.
• We can also arrange an executive package for organizations that desire a top-class welfare package for their employees.
• We can visit your workplace and deliver the course at a time and place to suit you in the form of in-company training.
• This is an effective way of training several delegates at the same time, saving on time and travel costs. The biggest benefit of in-company training is the location.
• Organizing training off-site can be difficult for some employers, especially if you have a large team to get through a course. On-site training means less travel time and are much more convenient for your employees.
• Hosting a course, yourself also means last minute changes can be made to attendees. For example, if someone suddenly becomes free to complete some training, at least they will be in the right place already. 
• You may want to do this so that lessons tie in with your own policies and procedures, or even just change the learning pace to suit your employee's schedules.
• There are benefits to your business too by hosting training in-house; employees do not have to spend unnecessary time away from their jobs and can instead clock back to work as soon as the training is complete.

APPROVAL

• NEBOSH, the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health, is an independent examining board and awarding body with charitable status.
• It offers a comprehensive range of globally recognized, vocationally related qualifications designed to meet the health, safety, environmental and risk management needs of all places of work in both the private and public sectors.
• Courses leading to NEBOSH qualifications attract around 35,000 candidates annually, with exams taken in over 100 countries around the world.
• Only well-tutored and prepared delegates succeed in NEBOSH exams, you can take advantage of our well- tailored training materials and tutorials which improves your chances of high success in NEBOSH exams.

Advantage

• Our instructors are top indigenous and expatriate professionals who have spent large number of years in industry and are therefore able to temper academic theory with practical experience. They are also acclaimed and renowned with impeccable record and experience spanning several years in Health and Safety industry.
• With our multi-media training laboratory and our training facilities, we are ever ready to offer you training programs of the highest possible standards and which meet internationally recognized level of performance.
• Our high pass rate has made us an exceptional NEBOSH Training Center in Africa.
• Whether you are highly experienced or just taking up a new career in Health and Safety, you can take advantage of our comprehensive tutorial and excellent instructorship which put you at good standing for success in NEBOSH exams.
• Only well-tutored and prepared delegates succeed in NEBOSH exams.