I am delighted to announce that we have received our most recent results for the NEBOSH NGC December exam. The course was delivered by Mark Grayson and Stuart Hack. To their credit we achieved a 100% pass rate, with 2 distinctions!

Congratulations to all concerned! I am now persuading the delegates (very gently) to come on the NEBOSH Fire Safety and Risk Management Course in May as they are already half way there, having passed the first paper of this course (prospective delegates for the Fire course must have successfully completed NGC1 within the last five years to achieve the FC1 and FC2 Certificates).

We have now completed the first NEBOSH NGC for 2009 (exams on 5/6 March) the results of which will be issued on 15 May 2009, so we will be eagerly awaiting them.


Other Health & Safety Training
Since returning after the Christmas holidays we have been very busy with our training events.

To date, OMS have delivered the following courses:

• 11 – IOSH Working Safely


• 1 - Workplace Risk Assessments


• 3 - Manual Handling


• 1 - SPA Core day


• 1 - SPA Food and Drink day


• 1 - SPA Core Refresher and Food & Drink Refresher day


• 3 - Electronics


• 1 - Assertiveness


• 1 - Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)


• 1 - IOSH Directing Safely


• 1 - NEBOSH National General Certificate


• 1 - NEBOSH NGC Revision day.

Not all of the above courses were held at our new premises in Bardon Hill we let our trainers Mark, Stuart and Steve loose in the big world sometimes, and the recent courses have been spread from Liverpool to Taunton. But, I still hold the title for finding the chip shop that opens the earliest - 9am in Paignton!

Our planned courses for the next few months are:

17 March - IOSH Directing Safely
18 March – Workplace Risk Assessments
24 March – SPA Core
31 March – SPA Supervisor
1 April - Fire Marshall
6 April - Construction, Design and Maintenance Regulations (CDM)
7 April - Control of Contractors
9 April - Abrasive Wheels
20 -23 April – IOSH Managing Safely
24 April - SPA Core
1 May - Scaffold/Tower Access Equipment – overview
7 May - Workplace Risk Assessments
11–14 May – NEBOSH National General Certificate week 1
18-21 May – NEBOSH National General Certificate week 2
18-21 May – NEBOSH Construction
26-29 May – NEBOSH Fire Safety and Risk Management
1 June - NEBOSH NGC revision day
2 June - NEBOSH Fire revision day
4 June – NEBOSH NGC, Fire and Construction Exam day
5 June – NEBOSH NGC Exam day 2

For our full 2009 training schedule please see our new website or feel free to call me, Gill Welsh, on Tel: 0845 1300 616 or by email: info@oms.uk.com. If you would like course details or booking forms for any training courses whether it is to be held at our training centre or you would like the course ‘in house’, I will be only too pleased to discuss this with you.

Finally think of training as an investment, your company and your personnel will reap the benefits of safe procedures and correct practices, as well as fully understanding why health and safety is so important.

Our courses are comprehensive without being staid, we include and encourage interaction with the delegates, give as much ‘real life’ experience (hence our well qualified and knowledgeable Tutors), use as many handouts and training/visual aids we feel necessary to give the delegates all the information he/she needs to carry out their duties competently when returning to the workplace.

Posted by Gill Welsh – Training Co-ordinator