This qualification is a perfect choice if you wish to make health and safety your career.
Completing this qualification will give you the knowledge and practical skills you need to perform as a leading health and safety professional of the future. You will gain confidence in your capabilities to recognise and solve everyday health and safety issues and take opportunities for improvement. This advanced international health and safety qualification will support your academic and career progression.
Course Details
The qualification deliberately looks at general workplace issues so that is can be applied in the many different sectors in which health and safety professionals may work.
On completion of the qualification, you will be able to:
- Advise on the types of legislation likely to apply, the relevance of ILO and non-government bodies’ guidance and possible enforcement actions
- Identify and effectively communicate relevant health and safety information
- Advise on a range of common workplace health and safety issues including how these can be assessed, controlled and monitored
- Develop a health and safety policy strategy (including proactive safety, Corporate Social Responsibility and the change management process)
- Contribute to a risk management strategy
- Promote a positive health and safety culture
- Develop and audit health and safety management systems
- Maintain individual and organisational health and safety competence
- Manage contractors and supply chains to ensure compliance with health and safety standards.
Assessments
The assessments focus on the application of knowledge to help you prepare for the health and safety tasks faced in the workplace.
Assessment Format
The qualification units are assessed in the following way:
| DI1 – Know – workplace health and safety principles: | Assignment – workplace-based tasks together with simulations and reflective statements and a research topic |
| DI2 – Do – controlling workplace safety issues | Scenario-based case study |
| DI3 – Do – controlling workplace health issues: | Scenario-based case study |
Each assessment is a substantial undertaking. We anticipate that it will take you around 40 hours to complete the ID1 assignment and 20 hours each for the ID2 and ID3 case studies.
The time-period given for you to complete each assessment reflects this:
Unit DI1: 4 weeks (20 working days)
Unit DI2: 2 weeks (10 working days)
Unit DI3: 2 weeks (10 working days)
All assessments will be checked via Turnitin plagiarism software and you will be required to have a closing interview with after each assessment.
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 33 Weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
