NCFE · RQF Level 5
NCFE Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits108
- Guided learning260 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by NCFE · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NCFE registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety informationReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate health and safety information.
- Produce communication systems for health and safety information into the organisation.
- Control the effectiveness of the communication systems for health and safety information going out of the organisation.
- Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information.
Develop and implement health and safety emergency response systems and proceduresReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Develop health and safety emergency response procedures.
- Implement procedures for the control of a health and safety emergency.
- Understand how to develop and implement health and safety emergency response systems and procedures.
Develop and implement health and safety review systemsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the efficiency and cost effectiveness of health and safety management systems.
- Confirm that each part of the health and safety management system is working as intended.
- Confirm that the entire health and safety system is working as intended.
Develop and implement proactive monitoring systems for health and safetyReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Devise inspection and monitoring systems for health and safety proactive performance monitoring.
- Keep stakeholders informed of health and safety proactive performance monitoring outcomes.
- Understand how to develop and implement proactive monitoring systems for health and safety.
Develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safetyReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a health and safety loss event reporting and recording system.
- Implement health and safety loss event investigation systems and procedures.
- Conduct statistical and epidemiological analyses.
- Maintain communication with stakeholders of health and safety reactive performance monitoring outcomes.
- Understand how to develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safety.
Develop and implement the health and safety policyReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Define the statutory and workplace health and safety requirements for the organisation.
- Develop the Health and Safety Policy.
- Implement the Health and Safety Policy.
- Know the steps required to develop and implement the Health and Safety Policy.
Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety mattersReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the health and safety competence needs of the organisation.
- Implement health and safety training to meet identified needs.
- Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters.
Identify, assess and control health and safety risksReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct an inspection of the workplace.
- Assess risks to health and safety.
- Implement risk control measures and safe systems of work in the organisation.
- Identify, assess and control health and safety risks.
Maintain knowledge of improvements to influence health and safety practiceReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Identify new developments in health and safety.
- Influence colleagues on health and safety matters.
- Maintain knowledge of improvements in health and safety practice.
Promote a positive health and safety cultureReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Advocate commitment to a positive health and safety culture in the organisation.
- Develop links with appropriate people and groups on Health and Safety matters.
- Understand the importance of promoting a positive health and safety culture within the organisation.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Contribute to the formulation of policy specifically focused on improving health and wellbeing
- Develop and Implement Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and Procedures
- Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information
- Develop and implement health and safety audits
- Develop and implement health and safety review systems
- Develop and implement the health and safety policy
- Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters
- Develop materials for information and education for specific audiences to support their engagement and participation in health protection processes
Where this can lead
International Health and Safety Training Specialist
Your journey in health and safety training can take many exciting directions. We're here to support your growth, whether that's becoming a master instructional designer, a leader of people, or a broad EHS expert. The most important thing is your commitment to keeping our people safe.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 10 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NCFE Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice (QCF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information
- Develop and implement health and safety emergency response systems and procedures
- Develop and implement health and safety review systems
- Develop and implement proactive monitoring systems for health and safety
- Develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safety
- Develop and implement the health and safety policy
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.