NEBOSH Certificate

[wade88]

Hi guys,

Anyone hold a NEBOSH certificate, and if so has it been beneficial career wise? I go to London to sit the course and take exam in April/May and will be doing the International course to open more doors elsewhere if necessary.

Just wondered if anyone else has this and how useful they have found it?

Ben

 

[grantr37]

and without nvq l3 or 2360 hes still not officially an electrician in the JIB's eyes lol.
what a numpty ;-)
and 4 quals for pat testing ?? really ???
and he only needed 1 of those for nic membership , the 17th regs.
its crap like this thats dragging this industry down

those aren't extra tickets though, those are the starting off point....

 

[ian.settle1]

I was speaking to somebody the other day and he was telling us that he had about 40 different tickets,...... he said "there's nothing you can tell me about tickets"..here's the ones I remember him telling us....

2391-10
2377-12
2377-11
2377-22
2377-32
2394
2395
Gas safe
17th Edition
NICEIC membership
PASMA
IPAF
COSHH
Asbestos
Confined Spaces
Work at height
NEBOSH manager certificate
CSCS managers card
ECS
Approved person
3 Day first Aid
Abrasive wheels

and there were a load more but I can't remember them as he was using the abbreviated names for them and I was trying to snaffle food while at the same time listening to him having a rant at a few guys that were going on about tickets whilst staying out of it myself but they were all health and safety related......cost his previous employer and himself thousands....


and he is now on........about £9.25 an hour...... :stuart:


it does help if you want to work on council jobs though...



how much is the NEBOSH costing ? might be one I will look at myself....

And about half of them are only valid for 3-years then he has to do them all over again. :wink5: :yes:

 

[ste77]

And about half of them are only valid for 3-years then he has to do them all over again. :wink5: :yes:

The IPAF is every 5 years which is realistic but having to do the ECS every three years takes the biscuit. yet again the industry getting needlessly screwed over

 

[pennywise]

ECS test is a joke anyway, it took 8 min last week and got %100 revision started on the train ride up to holborn

 

[ste77]

ECS test is a joke anyway, it took 8 min last week and got %100 revision started on the train ride up to holborn

Cant remember ever hearing of anyone failing it.

 

[pennywise]

Cant remember ever hearing of anyone failing it.

One of the guys on a firm I do work for managed to lol. We don't let him forget about it either

 

[ste77]

One of the guys on a firm I do work for managed to lol. We don't let him forget about it either

it really couldnt be any easier lol

 

[grantr37]

And about half of them are only valid for 3-years then he has to do them all over again. :wink5: :yes:

did a pasma ticket last week and 90% of the people there were re-doing it as theirs had gone out of date a few weeks ago, everybody said see you again in 3 years.....

 

[wade88]

Course is circa £1500, company i work for will fund that, will stay with my brother in West Ferry east London and the course is in Green Park. So all in all after the course is done total costs will be over £2k for sure.

Well obviously i am hoping that by doing this there will be a change in my salary, other wise i see no merit in me doubling my work load for no extra money.... BUT, it is an internationally recognised qual and from what i have read is a pretty respected one.

As far as what i want to end up doing, originally police work....that all went to poop, but i know for sure definitely not as a H&S officer, hell, no. But im going to do it anyway as the opportunity has been offered to me, and I'm sort of going for the " don't turn anything down" approach that could at some point in my working life, be beneficial to my career in any minor or major way.

Hence the curiosity to see if anyone has done it and was it a worthy course.

 

[grantr37]

very very few companies will pay for any courses, they want you to pay out of your own bank normally, even heard of one that found out a spark was saving for a better car and made him do tickets from his own money, most of car money gone to stay in a job....

 

[wade88]

Company i work for pays for any courses i deem necessary to keep me up to date. Did a mechanical maintenance course last year, will be going on a pneumatic s course too this year, anything that is beneficial to the company basically. End of the day they are paying for themselves. The more i learn and can do, the less need there is to call in external contractors at double the money to complete the job.

 

[rmc86uk]

I don't see how NEBOSH is going to bring anything good to you unless you want to go into H&S, I haven't met an Electrician yet who has had it!

 

[wade88]

Well i am not a full time electrician. I work a plant and operations manager, i just do all the company electrical work and maintenance too....because i enjoy it and hate desk work, and its what got me my job in the first place so i feel somewhat obliged to continue with it haha.

The H&S remit is being dumped onto me in the forthcoming months as our current SHE manager is a) useless b) soon retiring. Extra work + extra responsibility = extra money so i'm wondering how people found the NEBOSH course if they have taken it. Would appear, as you have so poignantly highlighted, no one has done it, needs to, or wants to do it. As it has little bearing on a career in electrical work.

 

[ian.settle1]

Well i am not a full time electrician. I work a plant and operations manager, i just do all the company electrical work and maintenance too....because i enjoy it and hate desk work, and its what got me my job in the first place so i feel somewhat obliged to continue with it haha.

The H&S remit is being dumped onto me in the forthcoming months as our current SHE manager is a) useless b) soon retiring. Extra work + extra responsibility = extra money so i'm wondering how people found the NEBOSH course if they have taken it. Would appear, as you have so poignantly highlighted, no one has done it, needs to, or wants to do it. As it has little bearing on a career in electrical work.

Or so you hope

 

[wade88]

Well thats sort of been said to me already. Only reason im doing it. Can't stand health and safety stuff.