A Safe Place to Work; Noise can be harmful, causing short term or acute damage

When thinking of noise do you think of your workplace? If you’re lucky, then hopefully not. But there are people who come across excessive noise every day at work. A worrying statistic shows that more than one million employees in Great Britain are exposed to levels of noise that put their hearing at risk. The louder the noise, the more damage it can cause, and may even create long term damage to our senses. Fortunately there is advice which can prevent damage from noise – and it is important to consider this as a real workplace risk. A lot of us are exposed to noise in the workplace, ranging from a construction worker surrounded...

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Algerian Workers Achieve 100% Pass Rate In First Ever NEBOSH Health And Safety At Work Course

British Safety Services (BSS) have just delivered ONE of the first ever NEBOSH Award in Workplace Safety and Health, (Level 2) in Algeria - and achieved an amazing 100 per cent pass rate. The Health and Safety at Work course was given by Birmingham-based BSS in conjunction with an oil industry training company, Stirling. The course was run at the Red Med base in Hassi Messaoud Algeria, where fifteen delegates from various oil companies attended. The oil company managers are keen to meet international safety standards and safeguard the safety of Algerian workers. Pat McLoughlin, Managing Director of BSS said: “We are delighted with...

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The NEBOSH Ways to Safer Lives

The term NEBOSH stands for the full form of National Examination Board in Safety and Health. This is an organization that was founded in the year 1979 in UK as a board for conducting vocational examinations and setting syllabuses. The examination and syllabus of NEBOSH is about the studies of health, safety and environmental issues. Though this organization does not directly involve itself in providing course curriculum it endorses and affiliates those that are done by other organizations in the same area of study. There are approximately 65 countries all over the world where NEBOSH courses are available for students and candidates...

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NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health Batch VIII,Bali 11 – 23 October 2010

This NEBOSH Training has been developed for multinational organisations in all sectors working in accordance with international standards or directives but adapting to local needs. It provides organisations with a global presence seeking to adopt an internationally recognised health and safety training programme for its staff. The NEBOSH Certificate is an internationally recognised qualification and provides an excellent underpinning knowledge of safety & health and a sound basis for evaluating hazards and risks. The syllabus incorporates International, technical and other standards where they exist. In other cases, requirements and practices...

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