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For over sixty years we’ve been a trusted guide to excellent health, safety, wellbeing and environmental management.
Since its foundation in 1957, the British Safety Council has campaigned tirelessly to protect workers from accidents, hazards and unsafe conditions, and played a decisive role in the political process that has led to adoption of landmark safety legislation in the UK.
British Safety Council has members in more than 60 countries who are committed to protecting and improving the wellbeing of workers believing that a healthy and safe work environment is also good for business.
What we do
We are a trusted leader in health, safety, wellbeing and environmental management. As a not-for-profit organisation, we use all our resources to reduce risk, prevent injuries and enhance wellbeing in the workplace, across the world.
We help organisations - of all sizes and in all sectors - develop and maintain effective policies and processes. We work with our members to develop best practice.
We’ve been doing this for 60 years, educating millions of workers and making hundreds of thousands of workplaces safer. We’re consulted directly on legislation and campaign actively to raise standards.
Membership – Together we are changing the world of work for the better. Join a global community of health and safety advocates and access to trusted expertise, information and support.
Influence – We make experience count. We’ve helped influence and shape health and safety policy and law since 1957.
Training and learning – We'll help you to develop knowledge and expertise, in whatever ways best suit your organisation and employees. Our educational support is comprehensive and flexible and covers all aspects of health, safety and environmental management.
Audit and consultancy – We identify what you do well and provide you with expert advice on how to achieve the highest standards in health, safety and environmental management, always in line with evolving standards and legislation.
Awards and events – Highly regarded by your professional peers, our awards recognise excellence in health, safety and environmental performance. We also organise and deliver events to support best practice, reduce risk, prevent injuries and promote health and well-being in the workplace.
Publications - Our publications include thought provoking news, features, profiles and opinion as well as the latest legislation. The range includes best practice guides, a health and safety newsletter and our magazine Safety Management.
Do not go with the British safety Council for online coarses waste of time, when you ring for advise its like ur being a burden they take your money then if you want help they say someone will ring you back they never do, if you have a problem with an exam they say someone will get back to you they never do and when your talking about the coarse you have paid for they haven't a clue what your talking about,if things change prior what you have been told about the course when you have signed up and paid for they don't notify you and when they are fed up with you they hang up on you, health and safety is not their priority
I have been running an external test centre for the BSC. The staff where always friendly and have been more than helpful especially now with the Corvid Restrictions. They went out of their way many times to facilitate the testing of students in a safe and timely manner. The processes and interaction have improved so much to make it user friendly. I even received a remote audit which was carried out with understanding and care with the restrictions and limitations in place. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all concerned especially to Maria Lopez and Zack Cheek and I wish them well in the future.
I have just received my NVQ pass certificate for my Level 5 Diploma. The support I was given by both my assessor and my BSC account manager has been excellent, I couldn't thank them enough. Upkaar and Ian W... Great people! Thank you so so much.
I have had interaction with BSC and it's been fairly positive. I have also seen the other side of the coin were things have not run as well as liked while working with my colleague with candidate online links not working and feedback on raised concerns taking just a bit longer than liked. With that said I personally have found my interactions with BSC to be positive and hope as I work more with BSC things will improve 10 fold. 2020 was a nightmare year but collectively 2021 will be better and that will be down to hard work from all parties.
Done this course online due to covid was easy and simple to do clear instructions but with help at the end off the phone if needed. Would highly recommend
Despite having to be conducted remotely (due to Covid), assessor was still proactive, helpful and engaged in a timely, constructive and open manner. Real discussions took place around possible areas for further improvement to processes, and a rigorous review of policies and processes currently in place was undertaken. Certificate and assessment report arrived in a timely manner and the whole process was a positive, engaged and constructive one.
We contact BSC to conduct COVID Assurance Assessments on our properties. The process from start to finish was excellent. Very quick turnaround, fantastic support and feedback. I wouldn't hesitate to engage their services again.
BSC guided us through our recent COVID Assurance assessment, explaining the process at every stage, to enable the experience to be a positive one during these strange and unusual times. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending BSC’s services to anyone!
Whenever I have needed support the BSC have been there for me. They took us through our covid assurance audit with a professional and practical approach which really supported our organisation. If I reach out, I get a very prompt and professional response. We are also members to allow us access to their website and other resources.
Not great to be honest. The level two risk assessment course consists of some just a few poor online training materials, nothing more - they took about an hour to read through. There were no videos to watch or activities to take part in. There is simply no comparison between this training and IOSH training, which is far more lengthy and in depth. If you want to learn anything go a recognised online training centre for IOSH, you can find a list on their website. Don't pay the over inflated price that the British Safety Council charge to do the IOSH course, you can get it for over a £100 cheaper elsewhere - exactly the same materials and exactly the same course. Following the final assessment for my level 2 course I had to email them to chase up my certificate. Very poor all round.
I signed for a "On-Line" course with this company as I was advised that it will be no longer than an hour to get my log in details. Well after 24 hours, 2 phone calls and a few emails I have had Zero information back from them. The payment was taken in flash, but after that you get nothing! I understand the world is very different due to COVID19, but your own website I will get details in an hours. Your staff say 1 hour wait when I phone up. But 24 hrs is getting a bit much now!
Very poor service and response by the BSC team, it seems like they don't know what they are responding to. Just playing around with a candidate who is paid a lot to accomplish their carrier path.I don't recommend anyone to go with their service, I have to chase more than a year after my diploma with BSC and they simply send mails and put their mistakes even on the candidate shoulder
This is my second review of these jokers, waiting on a refund for the past two weeks. Funny enough, its all gone quiet again from Britsafe about this. Stay away from Britsafe unless you want to get ripped off, not even worth one star.
i have appeared for British safety council diploma level 6 exam last year and till now they are not releasing me result. i have contact them many time via mail and phone but didn't receive any response.
I've took the IOSH managing safely course with the British Safety council. The course was very useful and changed my way of managing my team on site by putting the health and safety first. It gave me a better understanding about how to assess the risk on site, to be more proactive to provide a safe place to work. The work project in the end of modules was very challenging but it's a very good way to get familiar with risk assessments. I would suggest you to use Google Chrome as the website might crash on the other search engines. I gave 4 stars due to the processing time. Otherwise it's a 5 stars.
Course material relatively comprehensive and useful, if outdated in places, for example referencing CDM 2007. Web based study forum neither use nor ornament, absolute waste of time. You effectively download PDFs of the course materials, practice questions etc and are left to carry on alone. Biggest gripe and warning to anyone north of Watford would be that the distance learning offer stated that exams would be available to sit in Manchester, Birmingham, London etc, however when it came to booking this all Britsafe would offer was a London venue. I ended up booking the exams through another local provider and would only recommend Britsafe as a way to access a distance learning approach to the course, which as described previously is literally being able to download PDFs of the course material with minimal interaction otherwise.
Although I won't ever use them again for courses (due to the extensive waiting period between taking the exams and receiving the certification), I do appreciate the excellent customer service provided by Jessica W. She really went out of her way to help with my enquiry and provided promt responses.
Terrible service. I'm waiting almost 2 weeks and can't get on site because they're not sending out certificates in the time specified. Go through anyone else but these people. I'm not alone with this problem.
The Courses are excellent, website crashes though and support is a bit iffy but expensive the courses.
Donald Macdonald
Feb 08,2021We undertook a 5 star Audit with the British Safety Council and the service and experience could not have been better. The audit started just as the first lockdown to force this reduced the opportunities to conduct the audit process traditionally, it was therefore conducted a a remote audit process. this presented unique challenges as we are in the shipping business but through excellent communications and partnership with the auditors from the BSC this was completed in time to submit for the Sword of Honour. The flexibility shown by the auditors and the British Safety Council, as a whole, was one of the main reason the audit could be completed on time. I would thoroughly recommend the British safety councils approach, commitment and professionalism in conducting and completing this audit.