BSC training is well-recognized, with the organization being accredited by the Investors in People scheme and the quality management system ISO 9000. As an awarding body, it is regulated by the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator, which ensures that any qualifications the BSC awards are of a consistently high quality. Many of the BSC's courses, such as those provided by NEBOSH, are globally recognized, as noted by the BSC website, meaning that a trainee's qualifications carry international weight.
The BSC has training centers all over the U.K. and Ireland, with the organization often using hotels and conferences to host its courses. Alternatively, the organization can arrange to send instructors to host training sessions in-company, while some courses can be completed online.
The BSC provide a wide range of short--typically one-day--introductory courses that are designed to teach the basics of a particular subject. These include courses in office safety, designed to enable trainees to prevent accidents and control risks in the office, and fire warden training, which aims to give attendees a firm grasp of how fires start and how to implement emergency procedures.
The BSC offers qualifications at each level within the National Qualification Framework (NQF), which runs from Entry level to Level 6, with each course ending in a written exam or online assessment. The BSC's certificate courses cover a range of subjects; these include workplace hazard awareness at entry level, fire risk assessment--which teaches trainees to ensure that a workplace is safe from fire-based threats, and the Level 2 Certificate in staff supervision--which teaches general responsibility for staff.
In addition, the BSC offers specific courses provided by bodies such as NEBOSH, the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health. These courses are equivalent to a Level 3 NQF certificate and include the National Certificate in construction health and safety, which is a qualification recognized by construction industries the world over.
The individuals being trained by the BSC run the gamut from young people being taught as part of the health and safety requirement of the National Curriculum, to company directors and senior managers who want to understand how they can meet legal requirements regarding health and safety in the workplace.
In addition, professionals might wish to gain a BSC qualification in order to become part of a specific team or take on a particular responsibility within their workplace. For example, fire safety training will be needed to join a company's Fire Emergency team, while a manual handling trainer certificate will allow an individual to legally train colleagues in manual handling safety.