ACT to exhibit at the HRD 2013 Conference and Exhibition

ACT Associates are pleased to announce we will be exhibiting at the forthcoming HRD 2013 on the 24-25 April 2013 at Olympia, London.

The HRD Conference and Exhibition offers practical solutions to your Learning and Development challenges. 10 reasons why you should attend HRD...

1. Focus on specific areas such as coaching or talent or get an update across all areas of L&D.
2. Benefit from sessions in three different formats and find a learning style that suits you.
3. Get practical tips and advice to improve individual and organisational performance.
4. Hear from L&D and business leaders, who are experts in their chosen fields
5. Work through your business issues in practical workshops with like-minded peers.
6. Benchmark your existing approaches to learning and development.
7. Hear from leading organisations who are tackling the same challenges as you.
8. Meet top L&D suppliers and get tailored advice to issues you're facing.
9. Take a look at the latest products and services in learning and organisation development at the free exhibition.
10. Get professional development advice and try speed networking and make new contacts.

Worcestershire Health and Safety Group Meeting 13th February 2013

ACT Associates would like to thank our representative David Smith for giving such an excellent and informative presentation on OHSAS 18001 and Auditing at the Worcestershire H&S Group meeting on 13^th February 2013 at Perdiswell Leisure Centre, Worcester.

David Smith has many years’ experience developing, writing and implementing management systems. He chairs a variety of British Standards Institution technical

committees including the one responsible for occupational health and safety management systems.

Additionally, he represents the United Kingdom on a wide variety of ISO and European committees on management systems standards.

NEBOSH Certificate exam success December 2012

ACT Associates would like to congratulate all the students who recently passed their NEBOSH Certificate exams in December 2012.   Well done in achieving such excellent results.

Our next NEBOSH General, Construction and Fire Certificate courses will commence 10 June 2013 at our ten UK venues: Midlands, Cardiff, London, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Scotland, Nottingham, Bristol and Oxford.

If interested in furthering your career in health and safety and considering the NEBOSH National Diploma as your next step then our Unit A study period commences 15^th July 2013 at our prestigious Midlands venue. 

E-learning and blended learning options are available for most NEBOSH awards.

Please visit our website www.actassociates.co.uk

Exam technique for NEBOSH exams

Make sure that you study the past exam questions and suggested answers that are in your RMS study book (if purchased) available from http://www.rmspublishing.co.uk/publications/nebosh.aspx.  You can get access to examiner’s reports from the NEBOSH website (www.nebosh.org.uk).  These are produced to help students and tutors in future exams.  They are intended to be constructive and warn of the common mistakes made by people sitting these exams.  A common fault is that candidates fail to pay attention to the command word in each question. 

Understanding the command words

The phrase ‘command word’ is used to refer to the words specifically associated with the learning outcomes and assessment objectives of the NEBOSH Certificate qualifications.  The syllabus learning outcomes are concerned with what students can do at the end of a learning activity, to assess this command words used are action (active) verbs.

Revision tips for NEBOSH exams - Mnemonics

The use of mnemonics is another brain association technique to aid revision and memory recall. The techniques relies on the use of key words to trigger memory recall, often when there are several key headings which require recall to fully answer a question; common ones used in health and safety include, for example, the definition of a safe system of work, PEME.  The mnemonic PEME is sufficient to trigger the answer, thus:

A safe system of work involves the combination of People, Equipment, Materials and Environment in the correct way to ensure a safe outcome.

There are many other such mnemonics which you may find useful, for example, reminders for the assessment of risk from Manual Handling operations; LITE or FIAT for the hierarchy of measures

Revision tips for NEBOSH exams – mind maps/key words

Mind maps (often referred to as a spider gram) is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It uses the visualisation part of the brain to retain information in such away that it can be quickly recovered when required. Tony Buzan, is recognised as the inventor of mind maps in the 1960’s.

Mind maps are best used for a single topic, such as learning a language, the technique is used to identify all the components necessary to achieve this and possibly the order in which they should be carried out. This part is an essential aspect of revision; the fact that you have abstracted that which is required will imbed the information into the brain and enable threads of connectivity to be established simplifying recall in the future.

Revision tips for NEBOSH exams

You should recognise the knowledge that you already possess that is relevant to the NEBOSH syllabus. Don't underestimate the importance of this.

But, it is never too early to start revising!

Throughout your course you should have been thinking about this and noting the topics that you are finding it difficult to deal with.

·         Simply reading the publication or course notes repeatedly will not normally help you to remember the information, from the start of your study revisit each days study and abstract (handwritten preferred) the essence of the subject.