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Libyan students on safe ground at Redcar and Cleveland College

Friday 22 August 2008

A group of students from Libya have travelled almost 2000 miles to the UK to benefit from industry leading tuition in health and safety at a local college.
 
Yousef Allasga, Abdulbaset Ali Abdulhafid and Bashir Taleb are studying for the NEBOSH certificate in Health and Safety at Redcar and Cleveland College with the aim of picking up specialist knowledge which will assist with training workers at the Specific Training Centre working with oil companies in Libya.
 
On their return to Libya all three will share the knowledge they have learnt on the course with their colleagues who will then train workers across the oil industry in the country.
 
Talking about the course Yousef said:
 
“The NEBOSH certificate is recognised internationally as a high quality health and safety qualification and studying it at Redcar & Cleveland College means that we can get given information that is specific to the petrochemicals industry.”
 
Abdulbaset added:
 
“The knowledge we are learning on the course at Redcar & Cleveland will allow us to return to Libya and pass on best practice in health and safety to our colleagues working in the industry.”
 
Talking about their time at the college Bashir said:
 
“We have been made to feel extremely welcome at the college by the staff and lecturers as well as the local people of Redcar. We are already looking forward to returning to study for further qualifications in the fantastic new building when it opens.”
 
The course covers the full spectrum of heath and safety related activities from the correct use of fire extinguishers to monitoring noise levels in the working environment, but it is the specialist knowledge of health and safety in the petrochemicals sector that has led to studying for the qualification on Teesside.
 
Colin Willis, Health and Safety Course Leader at Redcar & Cleveland College said:
 
“Having one of the longest established and most advanced petrochemicals sites in the world on our doorstep means that Redcar & Cleveland College is uniquely placed to offer industry leading training for heath and safety in this industry.
 
“Many of our lecturers have current or previous experience of working in the industry and this allows us to tailor the curriculum that we teach to take into account modern working practices.
 
“Of course the NEBOSH course isn’t just for those working in the oil industry. Anyone whose day to day job involves health and safety can benefit from having an internationally recognised qualification in this important field.”
 
 
Attached photo shows (left to right): Colin Willis (Health and Safety Course Leader); Yousef Allasga, Abdulbaset Ali Abdulhafid and Bashir Taleb (students); and Kevin Morris (course lecturer) measuring traffic noise using a digital noise meter.
 

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