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🦺 Occupational Safety & Health — Professional Certificate (Exam-Prep)

Independent, exam-prep coverage of the publicly published OSH professional syllabus (NEBOSH IGC / CSP topics).

Last updated: June 2026

An independent, in-depth exam-preparation course over the publicly published domains of the occupational safety & health professional credential (NEBOSH IGC and the BCSP CSP body of knowledge), taught in our own words. This is not the official course and confers no awarding-body certification. It maps to NEBOSH IGC / BCSP CSP body of knowledge. The course is organized into 9 modules, ending with a final exam (pass mark 80%). It is independent, free exam-preparation training — not an official or accredited review course.

What you'll learn

  • OSH management systems & safety culture
  • Risk assessment & the hierarchy of controls
  • Physical, mechanical & electrical hazards
  • Chemical, biological & health hazards
  • Ergonomics, manual handling & musculoskeletal disorders
  • Safe systems of work, permits & confined spaces
  • Fire & emergency preparedness
  • Monitoring, audit & incident investigation
  • Legal, ethical & professional framework

Learning objectives

  • Describe an OSH management system and the Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement loop, including ISO 45001 clause structure
  • Run a 5-step risk assessment, score risk on a 5×5 matrix and apply the hierarchy of controls, most effective first
  • Identify physical, mechanical, electrical, chemical, biological, health and ergonomic hazards and their controls
  • Apply safe systems of work, permit-to-work, lockout/tagout and confined-space controls to high-risk tasks
  • Explain fire science, fire classes and emergency preparedness fundamentals
  • Distinguish proactive (leading) from reactive (lagging) monitoring and calculate TRIR / LTIFR / DART / severity rate
  • Investigate incidents to root cause and audit the management system against a standard
  • Summarise general legal duties, the regulatory framework and the ethical role of the OSH professional