NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Managing Stress at Work

The NEBOSH Certificate in Managing Stress at Work course has been designed for anyone responsible for managing and reducing work-related stress within their organisation. This includes line managers, Human Resource employees, occupational health workers and health and safety professionals.

There are no qualification-based requirements to taking this course.

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Managing Stress at Work qualification will give you the knowledge to be able to recognise the causes and effects of stress; identify work-related stress risks within your workplace; and apply suitable interventions to prevent and reduce stress. The syllabus and accompanying learning materials have been developed by NEBOSH, in conjunction with Great Britain’s Health and Safety Regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and are based on published HSE guidance.

You will learn:

• The business case for addressing workplace stress and associated mental health issues.
• The legal requirements, roles and responsibilities for managing workplace stress.
• How to recognise the signs and effects of workplace stress.
• How to identify the six aspects of workplace design which can cause workplace stress and mental ill health.
• How to apply the HSE’s Management Standards approach to identify and assess work-related stress risks.
• How to develop suitable interventions to reduce the causes and effects of workplace stress.

Benefits for employers

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Managing Stress at Work will help you to:

• Have confidence as your team will be trained in HSE’s current approach to managing and controlling stress at work.
• Ensure your organisation has valuable in-house expertise for recognising and managing the signs and effects of stress on your workers.
• Upskill your teams so they can assess workplace stress risks to the right standard, and identify where external expertise is required to support your workers.
• Create a safer and healthier work environment.

The course is split into three elements:

• Element 1 – Key principles
• Element 2 – Identification of risk
• Element 3 – Implementing interventions

This course is assessed with a multiple-choice assessment. This assessment is open book, so learners will be allowed to refer to their course book and notes. Learners will be presented with a realistic workplace scenario and asked 20 multiple-choice questions based on the learning outcomes.

Learners must achieve 60% or higher in order to pass the qualification.

The NEBOSH Managing Stress at Work  course takes approximately 7 hours of study to complete. This involves 6 hours of taught and 1 hour for the assessment.

• When studying through classroom, in-house, or virtual classroom learning, the course is typically completed in a single day

• When studying through online eLearning, we recommend allocating 1 day to complete the study, but this can be split over several sessions. You have access to the course for 6 months.

This course is supported by a NEBOSH Study Guide, which covered the course syllabus and content. Available as a hardcopy or electronic copy for those studying via virtual and e-learning.

As a Gold Standard NEBOSH Learning Partner, we have been delivering NEBOSH training since 1991, offering our expertise and experience to help you succeed in your health and safety career.

Our online eLearning course is designed to provide a flexible, self-paced learning experience. You can gradually work through each element at your own speed until you feel ready to take your assessments. It’s an ideal option for those with busy schedules, individuals transitioning into a new career, or those studying as part of their current job role.

The course license is valid for 6 months from activation, giving you ample time to complete your studies at your convenience.

Course support

• Tutor support – We offer tutor support via email. If you have any questions that you need help with, one of our experts will reply to you.
• Telephone Technical Support – We have technical support available via telephone during UK office hours (8:30am to 5pm GMT).
• Email Technical Support – If your time zone means that you cannot call during our UK office hours, we are able to reply to any technical problems as soon as possible via email.

The NEBOSH one day courses are designed to give you an understanding of a single topic, such as Wellbeing. After achieving the Working with Wellbeing course, you could move on to other one day course such as the Manging Stress at Work, Environmental Awareness or the Health and Safety Leadership. They are great bitesize courses to introduce you to each topic, which could then be further specialised in the Certificate or Diploma range.