Welcome to the RRC Newsletter
Hello again and welcome to the Spring edition of the RRC e-newsletter. This edition includes articles on the importance of resource efficiency in easing the effects of the credit crunch and why now is not the time for employers to cut down on their health and safety training. We also have exciting news on the launch of the new NEBOSH Environmental Certificate later this month.
We hope to see as many of you as we can at the Safety and Health Expo, taking place at the NEC in Birmingham from 12th-14th May. RRC will be on stand P12 in Hall 2 and will be offering free giveaways and special discounts to those who come to visit us on the stand.
As ever, don’t forget to look at the Student Focus section for important course updates if you are currently studying with RRC. In particular, in this issue we have some important course updates for our NEBOSH Certificate students along with news of some legislative changes which may be of interest.
Best regards
David Towlson
Lead Tutor
Safety and Health Expo 2009
Come and see us at Safety and Health Expo at the NEC in Birmingham on 12-14 May 2009. Our Director of Training, Dr David Towlson, will be on hand to discuss topics of interest with students and provide some face-to-face guidance on queries.
Dr Towlson will also be handing out FREE copies of our Health and Safety Law STEP Notes to visitors, as well as offering up to 50% discounts on a range of courses, such as 30% off all of our e-learning courses, including the NEW NEBOSH Environmental Certificate.
We’ll be in Hall 2 on Stand P12. We look forward to seeing you there.
What’s New on the Web...
RRC Joins YouTube
Like Gordon Brown, RRC Training have joined the YouTube phenomenon, with our Director of Training, Dr David Towlson, posting some useful revision tips for those who are sitting their exams this Summer.
We can’t promise that these tips will guarantee you a pass but they might help to focus your mind on the key points you should bear in mind. To view this FREE video, go to Successfully Passing your Exams - YouTube or http://www.rrc.co.uk/RevisionTips.aspx.
For a more light-hearted, alternative way of looking at it, you might also like to review David’s tips for successfully failing your exams at Successfully Failing your Exams – YouTube.
Updated RRC Training Guide
Anyone who has ever been tasked with the responsibility of buying health and safety training for their organisation will know that it can be a minefield to navigate. Achieving cost-effective training that gets results is not as simple as you would think.
Our updated 2009 Guide to Health and Safety Training may be able to help. By looking at the current issues and trends, the legal requirements and the different qualifications and options available, we aim to steer you through the pitfalls of selecting a reliable, respected training provider, and help you to identify what training is best suited to you and/or your staff, and the best ways of obtaining it.
To download your FREE copy of the Guide, go to http://www.rrc.co.uk/TrainingGuide.aspx.
News In Brief
On 4th January 2009, a Sikorsky S76 medium transport helicopter owned by PHI Inc. was outbound from the PHI Amelia operating base in Louisiana, USA, to the Shell South Timbalier 300 Block offshore platform. The helicopter crashed around 16 km south of Morgan City, Louisiana. Of the two crew and seven passengers, only one person survived and was reported to be in a critical condition. The passengers were contract service workers employed by Dynamic Industries and MMR Offshore Services. The cause of the accident was unknown and an investigation was under way by the safety authorities and the company.
A young worker was crushed to death by a 364-kg engine block when it fell from a piece of equipment used for cleaning engines at the Sattler Supply facility in Eunice, Louisiana, USA. The incident took place on 9th January 2009 and was being investigated by the Eunice Police Department. It was not clear whether the worker had failed to secure the engine block in the correct manner, or the equipment had failed; but he did not seem to have been under adequate supervision at the time.
A study by scientists at the University of California Los Angeles has found that chemicals in food packaging, pesticides and household items may be linked to lower fertility levels in women. The study involved 1,240 women and found that those with more perfluorinated chemicals in their blood took longer to become pregnant than those with lower levels.
A fire at a wooden care home in Komi, northern Russia, in early February 2009 killed 23 people. The fire was thought to have started in the smoking room. Officials stated that safety problems at the home were ignored.
On 3rd February 2009, three workers died in the UAE and another was hospitalised after inhaling hydrogen sulphide gas during maintenance work at the onshore Shah oilfield, which is operated by Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Operations on behalf of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. The field was on shutdown at the time and there was no fire or explosion. It was unclear how the release of gas occurred. Shah is part of a larger complex of three oilfields, which include Asab and Sahil. The sour crudes of Abu Dhabi have a high content of hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide.
At least 20 people died in Colombia in early February 2009 when a bus drove off a cliff, plunging 120 yards into a ravine. The bus was designed to carry around 40 passengers but was overloaded at the time of the accident.
When a workplace inspection was carried out at a fruit cannery in Naoussa, northern Greece, illegal workers were hidden in a freezer in sub-zero temperatures. An inquiry was ordered by the Labour Ministry.
At least 84 infants and children died in Nigeria after drinking a contaminated teething syrup. It contained a chemical normally used in antifreeze.
On 10th February 2009, the oil tanker “Kashmir”, laden with 30,000 tonnes of oil condensates from Iran, was sailing to the UAE port of Jebel Ali when it was in collision with the container vessel “Sima Buoy” around seven nautical miles from Jebel Ali port. Both vessels caught fire and sources reported that the oil tanker appeared to be badly damaged. Slight pollution occurred but quickly evaporated. The “Kashmir” was built in 1988.
An Australian navy diver working in Sydney Harbour in mid-February 2009 was attacked by a shark. He suffered severe injuries to his right hand and leg before swimming to a safety boat. His hand was later amputated above the wrist.
Twelve fire-fighters and a pilot were killed on 15th February 2009 when a helicopter belonging to the forestry company Celco, a subsidiary of the conglomerate Copec Construction, crashed in the Maule region around 300 kilometres south of Santiago, Chile. The Chilean National Forestry Corporation said the team had been heading to put out a forest fire at a eucalyptus plantation when the helicopter crashed in dense mist. South-central Chile has been subject to a series of forest fires, mainly in southern wooded areas where fires are sparked each summer amid dry, hot conditions.
On 17th February 2009, the Irish Department of Transport announced that a Russian warship had spilled an estimated 522 tonnes of oil into the sea during a refuelling operation around 80 kilometres south of the Fastnet lighthouse, off the south-western coast of Ireland. It formed a five-kilometre-radius slick, which was drifting eastwards toward Britain. It was thought unlikely that an oil recovery exercise in the open waters of the south-western approaches would be successful.
China’s capital, Beijing, has been enduring its longest drought in 38 years, according to weather bureau records. In mid-February 2009, the provincial weather authorities “seeded” clouds with 313 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide in an attempt to increase precipitation. The unexpected result was that precipitation took the form of such heavy snow that 12 highways around Beijing had to be closed to traffic. The snow did, however, bring moisture to the soil.
An Aerocontractors Sikorsky 76 helicopter flying between the Ogbainbiri and Tebidaba oil flow stations in Nigeria, which are operated by the Italian company Agip, was hit by gunfire on 25th February 2009. One passenger was wounded but the aircraft landed safely after returning to its base in Port Harcourt. Further flights to the area were suspended while the authorities investigated. Attacks on helicopters are not unprecedented in the Niger Delta but they are comparatively rare.
Two people were taken to hospital in the Spanish resort of Sierra Nevada in Andalusia at the beginning of March 2009 when ski lifts fell up to 8 metres (26 ft) to the ground. The cause of the accident was a vibrating cable which jerked screws out of a pillar. A total of 21 people were hurt in the incident.
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has set up a web page covering the topic of pandemic influenza. It provides a summary on the topic and access to other online resources. The information can be accessed at:
http://www.osha.gov/dsg/topics/pandemicflu/index.html
A six-storey building opened in 1971 collapsed in early March 2009 in the German city of Cologne. It housed the city’s archives which were feared to be irretrievably damaged.Two neighbouring buildings were destroyed in the collapse, causing the death of two occupants. There were no casualties among staff and visitors at the archive, who were able to be evacuated in time, alerted by rumbling and vibration. Blame for the accident was initially laid on the construction of a new underground railway station nearby.
An outbreak of food poisoning at a UN school in Gaza affected 55 children in early March 2009, seven of whom were in a critical condition. According to police, the children had eaten food that had passed its expiry date.
In February 2006, more than 1,000 people died when the ferry “Al-Salam Boccaccio 98” sank in the Red Sea. On 10th March 2009, an Egyptian appeals court sentenced the owner of the ferry to seven years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. The ruling overturned his earlier acquittal of the charges by a court that was believed to have been influenced by the man's political connections. He is thought to be living as a fugitive in Europe and was sentenced in his absence. The court also sentenced two other defendants in absentia to three years in prison each over the disaster, but acquitted two more.
The National Board of Industrial Injuries in Denmark has approved payment of compensation to 37 women who claimed that their breast cancer was linked to their long-term night shift work. The compensation was financed by the employers’ insurance. According to studies, sleep deprivation can cause the body to produce less melatonin, which can help to prevent cancer. Night shift work is also believed to cause disturbed sleep, digestive problems and fatigue.
Following an inspection a privately-owned coal mine at Sanjiaotang in Hunan, China, was ordered to stop work by the local work safety administration on 7th March 2009. On 22nd March it was discovered by the Changning Coal Industrial Bureau to have continued operating without authorisation. On that date the mine flooded, trapping 13 miners underground. The two managers of the mine absconded from the scene and were being sought by the police.
A partially constructed single-storey factory building at Dubai Industrial City in the UAE collapsed on 26th March 2009, killing three people and seriously injuring another three. A number of other workers sustained minor injuries. The single-storey glass and aluminium building had been subjected to strong winds and hail overnight, but should not have been in weakened condition. The authorities are undertaking an investigation into the incident. The Dubai Industrial City development lies near the Maktoum International Airport, close to the Jebel Ali Free Zone.
In late March 2009, a court in Shijiazhuang agreed to hear the first lawsuit brought by a parent of one of the children affected by the tainted milk scandal in China in 2008. The defendant in the claim for compensation is the Sanlu Group dairy products company and the case opens up the possibility of a flood of court actions. Six infants died as a result of milk powder containing the chemical melamine and 300,000 others were made ill.
A stampede at a football stadium in the Ivory Coast at the end of March 2009 caused the deaths of at least 22 people and injuries to 132 others. Pushing to get in led to panic as some 50,000 fans packed the stadium to watch the Ivory Coast play Malawi in a World Cup qualifying match, and part of a wall collapsed.
A bus carrying workers across the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt to Jordan at the end of March 2009 was speeding and overturned several times, hitting a large stone. Eleven people died in the accident near Nekhil, east of Cairo, and a further 36 were injured.
It was reported at the beginning of April 2009 that 17 people die every weekday in India while commuting to work in Mumbai on the city’s suburban rail network. The majority of the fatalities are due to people trespassing on the lines and being knocked down by trains. More than three people die every working day through falling or being pushed from overcrowded carriages without doors. Others are killed by trackside poles while hanging out of trains and some suffer electrocution by power cables while sitting on the roof of carriages.
A deckhand on a charter boat died off Long Beach, California, at the beginning of April 2009 as he tried to amuse a party of about 20 elementary school pupils. To make them laugh he put a bait fish into his mouth but then choked.
An exchange tank connected to a boiler overheated and led to the explosion of the boiler and a fire at a styrofoam packaging material plant near Manila in the Philippines. Thirteen workers were killed and another 12 were badly injured when the factory building collapsed. The accident took place on 7th April 2009 at the QC Styro Corporation facility in Santa Maria township, 56 km north of Manila. An investigation was under way to determine the cause of the incident.
A Kenyan farm manager was attacked by a python in mid-April 2009 and dragged up a tree. He managed to work a hand free after an hour by biting the snake. He was then able to reach his mobile phone and call his boss for help.
Resource Efficiency
By John Binns, BSc(Hons), MSc, AIEMA
Sorry to labour a point, I know you are hearing this everyday on the news but times are hard. The credit crunch, recession, or whatever you might call it, is forcing businesses to make some tough choices about how they operate. What if I was to tell you that I might be able to save your company a significant amount of money and at the same time help reduce its impact on the environment? There has never been a more pressing time to consider being more resource efficient!
Resource efficiency, you might ask, what does that involve? Being resource efficient is all about managing, and hopefully reducing, raw materials, energy and water consumption to reduce costs and environmental impact. I have been interested in this subject for a while now as it offers our profession a chance to make significant direct cost savings. It may sound complicated, but you would be surprised – in most cases it isn’t. In fact, companies of all types and sizes can make some significant savings by undertaking what are quite often simple measures.
Noticeboard
Training - Needs Must
By Wendy Claxton BSc (Hons), Dip2.OSH, CMIOSH
Question: What do the following incidents have in common?
(1) Scaffolder plummets six metres to the ground.
(2) Teenager dies on first day at work on a demolition site.
(3) Maintenance Engineer’s fingers crushed in the pulley-belt of an electric motor.
Answer: They were all successful prosecutions taken by the Health and Safety Executive (UK). Each case involved a basic lack of safety training.
Although the above cases were all fairly recent we can also look further back to more examples. In the case of the Piper Alpha fire in 1988 it was deemed that serious inadequacies in safety training lead to the deaths of 167 people, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster. The workers on the platform were not adequately trained in emergency procedures, and management personnel were not trained to compensate for this, or provide good leadership in a crisis situation.
NEBOSH News
RRC Launch the NEW NEBOSH Environmental Certificate
RRC are delighted to announce that we will be one of the first providers to offer the NEW NEBOSH National Certificate in Environmental Management when it is launched later this month. We will be launching our e-learning course on 18th May 2009, with a distance learning version following on 1 June 2009 and a block release version in September 2009.
Plus, enrol during May, and receive a 20% discount on our e-learning course or visit our stand at Safety and Health Expo at the NEC in Birmingham between 12th-14th May and benefit from a 30% discount.
We were one of only three providers invited to take part in a pilot by NEBOSH for this new qualification last summer and we had unprecedented demand for the course, with well over 275 people applying for the pilot course. Unfortunately, at NEBOSH’s request, we had to restrict enrolment numbers so now is your chance if you missed out last summer.
For further details on the course and to enrol, visit http://www.rrc.co.uk/nebosh%20environmental%20certificate.aspx.
Workplace Practical Assessments for all NEBOSH Certificate Students
RRC have now organised an exemption for all of our Certificate students, allowing them to complete their Practical Assessments in their workplace, rather than having to attend an examination centre on a set day.
We will be offering this new facility from the September 2009 exams and will be contacting all affected students over the coming weeks to explain how it will affect you.
RRC Middle East Course Dates 2009
Please click the following link to access RRC Middle East course dates and fees for 2009.
Student Focus
This is the section of the e-Newsletter where we focus on any important updates to your course. Please review the following carefully for anything which may impact your studies.
NEBOSH National Diploma
Unit A - Element 5
The HSE have recently produced a new, simplified format for the Health and Safety Law posters and leaflets which employers must provide in every workplace. The new poster and leaflet come under the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989 (as amended). As with the old poster and leaflet, the duty is placed on the employer and they’re required to provide employees with either the approved poster (on display), or the approved leaflet (individually). The new version of the poster and leaflet was approved for use from 6th April 2009. Employers can still use the old version until 5th April 2014. The new Health and Safety Law poster and leaflet each contain a contact number for the HSE Infoline; from here they will be put in touch with the health and safety enforcing authority for the premises or with the HSE for employment medical advice. You should update your course material and notes to reflect this new information, the relevant section can be found in the ‘Tabulation of Statutory Regulations’ under the ‘Provision of Information and Development of Information Systems’ title.
Another entry in this table requires amendment; the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2004 have been revoked and replaced by the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2007. Detail of this new legislation can be found in our online Health and Safety Law Guide, which can be accessed through your e-Zone Library.
We have also recently reviewed the section of your materials concerning ‘Influence of Organisational Structures’ under the ‘Description of Health and Safety Culture and Climate’ heading. We have produced a supplement to this section, which updates and clarifies the existing materials. The attachment below should replace the section of your Element 5 materials from the ‘Influence of Organisational Structures’ heading to ‘Indicators of Culture’.
Influence of Organisational Structures
Any student with access to their materials through the e-Zone should note that this amendment has already been included in the online version of our materials.
Unit B – Element 2
You will remember that in our last e-Newsletter we told you about the EU REACH Regulations coming into force. We have now reviewed your materials and updated them to reflect this. You should note that:
- ‘REACH is enforced in the UK under the REACH Enforcement Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/2852). These enforcement regulations essentially allocate REACH enforcement duties to, and confer powers on, various enforcement agencies (HSE, EA, SEPA, LA etc). They amend a number of existing regulations (including CHIP, COSHH and Control of Asbestos Regulations) and wholly revoke others.’
For more information on the REACH Enforcement Regulations you can download our free REACH podcast and booklet, both available from the Resource Centre at www.rrc.co.uk.
Unit C – Element 10
We have added a short paragraph to the end of the section on ‘Waste’ in your Element 10 materials. We have included it below, so you can add it into your materials and notes to update them in relation to new legislation.
- ‘Amendment to the Regulations
The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 came into force on the 6th April 2009. The amended regulations change the threshold at which companies have to register with the Environment Agency from 200kg to 500kg of waste produced at, collected from or removed from premises within a year. The regulations also explicitly identify that occupiers of domestic premises are not subject to the requirements of the regulations. However contractors who remove asbestos waste are, and are classed as the producer of the waste. Similarly the law exempts householders with regards to compliance with the regulations for other hazardous domestic wastes. The Regulations apply when waste is accepted for collection, disposal or recovery from a domestic site at which the waste is produced or to a site at which the waste is taken.’
Any student with access to their materials through the e-Zone should note that this amendment has already been included in the online version of our materials.
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NEBOSH International Diploma
Unit IA – Element 5
We have recently reviewed the section of your materials concerning ‘Influence of Organisational Structures’ under the ‘Description of Health and Safety Culture and Climate’ heading. We have produced a supplement to this section, which updates and clarifies the existing materials. The attachment below should replace the section of your Element 5 materials from the ‘Influence of Organisational Structures’ heading to ‘Indicators of Culture’.
Influence of Organisational Structures
Any student with access to their materials through the e-Zone should note that this amendment has already been included in the online version of our materials.
Click the following link to find information about future exams:
NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management
The law has changed in relation to watercourses polluted by agricultural nitrates. We now have, for England, the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2008 and, for Wales, the Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Wales) Regulations 2008. These revoke (but otherwise incorporate and extend) the previous Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (England and Wales) Regulations 1998. The new rules are more complex and are expected to have a higher financial impact on dairy farmers.
We will be updating your course notes shortly with regard to this change and will notify you of any required amends in the August newsletter.
Unit ED1 Element 2
We have recently updated a small section of your Element 2 materials to reflect legislative amendments. The update affects ‘Principles of Environmental Toxicity and Ecotoxicity Testing’. You should add the following extract to the end of the current ‘Risks from Chemical Substances’ section of your materials:
‘For many common hazardous chemicals, available data has already been evaluated and a harmonised, European-wide classification officially adopted. Classification and labelling data for these chemicals is published as Annex I to the Dangerous Substances Directive (67/548/EEC), as updated from time to time. This can be reviewed on-line or downloaded from the website of the Consumer Products Safety & Quality website (http://ecb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/). In the UK, this is currently also published, in a more user-friendly, alphabetical format; the Approved Supply List, Information approved for the classification and labelling of substances and preparations dangerous for supply, often abbreviated to just “ASL”. The ASL is an approved document, which accompanies CHIP. It is updated from time to time (changes to classifications, new entries, etc.), so make sure that you consult the most recent edition.
These enforcement regulations essentially allocate REACH enforcement duties to, and confer powers on, various enforcement agencies (HSE, EA, SEPA, LA, etc.). They amend a number of existing regulations (including CHIP, COSHH and Control of Asbestos Regulations) and wholly revoke others. Thus, at least some requirements that once found themselves in several pieces of UK legislation have been consolidated (though modified) in to one place; REACH. This is no bad thing.’
Any student with access to their materials through the e-Zone should note that this amendment has already been included in the online version of our materials.
Unit ED1 Element 3
The ISO 9001 series has recently been revised. The new versions contain only minor changes and an update to your materials is unnecessary.
Unit ED1 Element 5
The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations 2009 have recently come into force to implement the Environmental Liability Directive. We have updated our materials to include this legislation. As a result, the section of your Element 5 materials entitled ‘Environmental Liability Directive’ (which can be found under ‘Foreseeable Changes in UK Environmental Law’) should be replaced by the following attachment. This attachment should be inserted immediately following the ‘Environmental Liability Directive’ heading, and replace you existing material up to the ‘The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007’ heading.
Any student with access to their materials through the e-Zone should note that this amendment has already been included in the online version of our materials.
Environmental Liability Directive
Unit ED1 Element 9
The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005 have recently been amended by the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009. The main changes resulting from this amendment can be found in the extract below. You should add the following paragraph to the end of the ‘Specific Legal Requirements Applying to Each Category of Waste’ section of your Element 9 materials.
- ‘Amendment to the Regulations
The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 came into force on the 6th April 2009. The amended regulations change the threshold at which companies have to register with the Environment Agency from 200kg to 500kg of waste produced at, collected from or removed from premises within a year. The regulations also explicitly identify that occupiers of domestic premises are not subject to the requirements of the regulations. However contractors who remove asbestos waste are, and are classed as the producer of the waste. Similarly the law exempts householders with regards to compliance with the regulations for other hazardous domestic wastes. The Regulations apply when waste is accepted for collection, disposal or recovery from a domestic site at which the waste is produced or to a site at which the waste is taken.’
There has also been another legislative change relating to your Element 9 materials; the legislation concerning batteries and accumulators has been updated. The following paragraph should replace the section entitled ‘EuroBAT’ at the end of the ‘Minimising Waste and Effluents’ section in your materials.
- ‘Producer Responsibility - Batteries
The Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008 partially implement Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators (“The Batteries Directive”). NB Accumulators are rechargeable batteries.
The regulations:
- Prohibit the use of cadmium and mercury above certain limits in batteries (varies for different battery types; some battery applications have exemptions).
- Require specific labelling to facilitate recycling (the crossed out wheeled bin symbol; ‘Pb’, ‘Cd’, ‘Hg’ if contains lead, cadmium or mercury, respectively).
- Require that appliances that use batteries are so designed that the batteries can easily be removed.
The remaining provisions of the Batteries Directive will be implemented in the UK by the Waste Battery Regulations 2009 (still at consultation stage but expected in early 2010). These provisions include:
- Battery producers will have to register with the regulator and join a battery compliance scheme (which will carry out waste battery collection, treatment and recycling obligations).
- Portable battery sellers will have to take back spent portable batteries who may pass these on (free of charge) to a battery compliance scheme.
- Battery users must only dispose of waste batteries at designated collection points (so a ban on the disposal of batteries in the bin for landfill or incineration).’
Any student with access to their materials through the e-Zone should note that this amendment has already been included in the online version of our materials.
Unit ED1 Element 13
The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations 1998 have recently been replaced by the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (England and Wales) Regulations 2008. You should update the ‘Legislation Effecting Use of Pesticides’ section in your Element 13 notes to reflect this change.
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NEBOSH National General Certificate
Workplace Practical Assessments for all NEBOSH Certificate Students
RRC have now organised an exemption for all of our Certificate students, allowing them to complete their Practical Assessments in their workplace, rather than having to attend an examination centre on a set day.
We will be offering this new facility from the September 2009 exams and will be contacting all affected students over the coming weeks to explain how it will affect you.
Unit NGC1
A supplement has been prepared for your NGC1 materials and can be found below. It is intended to update and clarify specific sections of your material and includes legislative updates. You should read it in conjunction with your existing course materials.
Unit NGC2
A supplement has been prepared for your NGC2 materials and can be found below. It is intended to update and clarify specific sections of your material and includes legislative updates. You should read it in conjunction with your existing course materials.
Any student with access to their materials through the e-Zone should note that this amendment has already been included in the online version of our materials.
Click the following link to find information about future exams:
NEBOSH International General Certificate
RRC have now organised an exemption for all of our Certificate students, allowing them to complete their Practical Assessments in their workplace, rather than having to attend an examination centre on a set day.
We will be offering this new facility from the September 2009 exams and will be contacting all affected students over the coming weeks to explain how it will affect you.
Unit IGC1
A supplement has been prepared for your IGC1 materials and can be found below. It is intended to update and clarify specific sections of your material and should be read in conjunction with your existing course material.
Unit IGC2
A supplement has been prepared for your IGC2 materials and can be found below. It is intended to update and clarify specific sections of your material and should be read in conjunction with your existing course material.
Click the following link to find information about future exams:
NEBOSH Certificate in Construction Safety and Health
RRC have now organised an exemption for all of our Certificate students, allowing them to complete their Practical Assessments in their workplace, rather than having to attend an examination centre on a set day.
We will be offering this new facility from the September 2009 exams and will be contacting all affected students over the coming weeks to explain how it will affect you.
Unit NCC1
A supplement has been prepared for your NCC1 materials and can be found below. It is intended to update and clarify specific sections of your material and includes legislative updates. You should read it in conjunction with your existing course materials.
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NEBOSH Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management
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