Three Wirral Metropolitan College, NEBOSH Specialist Environmental Diploma students, recently attended the NEBOSH Graduation Ceremony held at Warwick University. Pictured from left to right John Nelson, Pauline Price and Robert Newton.
The Environmental Diploma is designed to equip health and safety practitioners with an appropriate professional level qualification to undertake responsibilities in relation to the risks of damage to the environment posed by work activities. Holders of the Environmental Diploma may use the designatory letters SpDipEM after their name.
The intended learning outcomes are that holders of this award should be able to:
- Advise management on the likely environmental impact of an organisation’s activities and the action needed to avoid or minimise the harmful effects;
- Arrange for appropriate action to be taken either by themselves or in co-operation with other specialist staff;
- Appreciate the inter-relationship between actions taken to protect workpeople and those taken to protect the environment so that the best combination of measures is adopted.
The syllabus comprises three modules:
Module A; Management of Environmental Risk
Module B; Legal and Organisational Factors
Module C; Control Measures for Environmental Risks
Each afternoon of attendance comprises a variety of lectures, tutorials, and study work. At the end of the course you are required to sit formal examinations and submit a project.
Further details of this and other courses available at Wirral Metropolitan College available by calling a Student Adviser on 0151 551 7777 or by visiting www.wmc.ac.uk