Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

19.12 
Conclusion
Passing health and safety exams and assessments has 
a lot in common with any other subject being examined. 
If candidates do not apply themselves to study effect-
ively, read the answers carefully and plan their answers, 
success will be very limited. As once said by an old 
carpenter:
‘Measure twice, think twice and cut once’
Applied to exams it can be changed to:
‘Read twice, think twice and write once’
19.13 
References
Buzan, Tony: The Mind Set BBC Worldwide 2000 (includes 
Use your head, Master your memory, The speed reading 
book, and Use your memory).
Elson, D. and Turnbull, G.: How to do better in exams, 
AEB1989.
Leicester, Coventry and Nottingham Universities study skills 
booklets.
NEBOSH Examiners’ reports.
Guide to the NEBOSH National General Certifi cate.
Northedge, Andrew: The Good Study Guide, The Open
University 2005.

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20.1 
Introduction
The NEBOSH National General Certifi cate is assessed 
by two written examination papers (NGC1 – The man-
agement of health and safety; and NGC2 – Controlling 
workplace hazards) and a practical assessment (NGC3 –
The practical application). Both examination papers and 
the practical application must be passed so that the 
NEBOSH National General Certifi cate may be awarded.
In this chapter, specimen answers are given to one 
long and two short questions for each of the two written 
papers. A specimen practical assessment and manage-
ment report is also given for the practical application. 
It is important to stress that there are no unique answers to 
these questions but the answers provided should provide 
a useful guide to the depth and breadth expected by the 
NEBOSH examiners. Candidates are strongly advised 
to read past examiners’ reports which are published by 
NEBOSH. These are very useful documents because 
they not only give an indication of the expected answers 
to each question of a particular paper but they also 
indicate some common errors made by candidates.