ISPON Professional Membership study plan

Map the Nigerian OHS statutory framework (Factories Act, Employees' Compensation Act, Labour Act provisions, NESREA and NOSDRA mandates) into a one-page hierarchy from principal legislation down to codes of practice

Compare ILO Convention C155 and C187 obligations against Nigerian duties of the employer, and list five gaps a safety practitioner must manage in practice

Build a five-step risk assessment template that scores likelihood and severity, defines ALARP justification, and records residual risk acceptance with named accountable persons

Apply the hierarchy of controls to three workplace scenarios drawn from manufacturing, construction and oil and gas, justifying why each chosen control sits at its level

Distinguish hazard, risk, danger and residual risk in writing so the terms are used consistently across later domains

Conduct a qualitative risk assessment for a chemical store, an ergonomic manual-handling task and a high-noise area, using a consistent scoring matrix

Classify chemical hazards by GHS hazard class and match each to a control set covering elimination, engineering, administrative and PPE layers

Explain the exposure routes (inhalation, dermal, ingestion, injection) for biological agents and state the corresponding control for each route

Interpret physical hazard exposure limits for noise, heat and vibration and state the action level that triggers further controls

Produce a task-based risk register with owners, review dates and escalation triggers

Draft a safety policy structure that states intent, defines accountability from board level to supervisor, and names the consultation mechanism for workers

Explain how a safety management system is structured around plan-do-check-act, and identify the documented elements an auditor would expect to see

Analyse the practical difference between a safety culture driven by compliance and one driven by leadership commitment, using leading indicators as evidence

Apply the professional code of conduct to three ethical dilemmas: under-reporting an incident, pressure to sign off an unsafe permit, and a conflict between client confidentiality and a legal duty to report

State the practitioner's duty to competence, honest reporting and refusal of work that cannot be done safely

Run a root cause analysis on a constructed incident scenario using a recognised method, separating immediate causes, contributing factors and underlying management failures

Distinguish accident, incident, near miss and dangerous occurrence, and state the reporting duty and timeline for each under Nigerian requirements

Design an incident report form that captures the five Ws, witness statements, scene evidence and corrective action ownership

Build an inspection checklist for a work area that maps each check item to a regulatory or standards requirement

Define three lagging and three leading safety performance indicators and explain how each would be trended and acted on

Outline an emergency response plan covering hazard identification, alarm and communication, evacuation routes, assembly points, roll call and post-incident recovery

Select the correct fire extinguisher class for fires involving solids, flammable liquids, gases and electrical equipment, and explain the pass technique and when not to fight a fire

Design a tabletop drill scenario with a timeline, roles and a debrief checklist

Describe the exposure assessment process for a workplace health hazard, from walkthrough and sampling strategy to interpretation against occupational exposure limits

Identify the occupational diseases most associated with silica, asbestos, noise, solvents and repetitive strain, and state the surveillance that detects them early

Explain the purpose of pre-employment, periodic and exit medical examinations and the confidentiality boundary around worker health records

Select PPE for the eyes, hearing, respiratory, hand and fall-protection categories by matching the hazard to the standard and the required protection factor

Explain the limits of PPE as a control and state the administrative duties of training, fit testing, inspection, maintenance and replacement

Compare engineering controls such as local exhaust ventilation, guarding and acoustic enclosure against administrative controls on reliability and dependence on human behaviour

Design a short training session for a specific task, writing observable learning objectives and a practical assessment method

Explain the principles of behaviour-based safety observation, including how to give feedback that reinforces safe behaviour without blaming the worker

Identify the signs of a weak safety communication system and propose two fixes

Describe the environmental aspects and impacts of a workplace activity and rank them by significance using a simple scoring method

Explain waste hierarchy, effluent and emissions controls, and the sustainability practices a safety practitioner can integrate into existing management reviews

Revisit the regulatory framework and identify the environmental statutes that intersect with OHS duties, such as permitting and spill reporting obligations

Plan a workplace audit from scope and criteria through sampling, evidence collection, findings classification and closing meeting

Write audit findings that state the requirement, the evidence and the risk, avoiding vague observations

Consolidate all twelve domains into a one-page summary sheet of key definitions, statutory duties, control hierarchies and decision rules

Complete a timed mock examination under exam conditions and score it against the domain weighting to expose weak areas

Re-study the two weakest domains using targeted notes rather than re-reading everything

Rehearse concise written answers to scenario questions on risk assessment, incident causation and ethical conduct

Confirm examination logistics and build a final-week revision schedule that protects sleep and avoids last-minute cramming