ProQual Awarding Body · RQF Level 5
ProQual Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice
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 learning482 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by ProQual Awarding Body · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This Level 5 NVQ Diploma is aimed at health and safety practitioners. It allows candidates to develop and implement health and safety policies, maintain knowledge of improvements, and manage reactive monitoring systems within an organisation.
These are the units ProQual Awarding Body 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 · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the quality and relevance of health and safety information.
- Produce effective communication systems for disseminating health and safety information within the organisation.
- Control the effectiveness of communication systems for health and safety information being disseminated outside of the organisation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to develop effective communication systems for health and safety information.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to implement effective communication systems for health and safety information.
Develop and implement health and safety emergency response systems and proceduresReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Develop health and safety emergency response procedures in line with current legislation and best practice.
- Implement procedures for the control of a health and safety emergency, ensuring the safety of all personnel.
- Understand how to develop comprehensive health and safety emergency response systems and procedures, considering all potential hazards and risks.
Develop and implement health and safety review systemsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the efficiency of existing health and safety management systems.
- Investigate the cost effectiveness of existing health and safety management systems.
- Confirm that each individual component of the health and safety management system is functioning as intended.
- Confirm that the entire health and safety system is working effectively as a whole.
Develop and implement proactive monitoring systems for health and safetyReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Devise inspection systems for proactive health and safety performance monitoring.
- Devise monitoring systems for proactive health and safety performance monitoring.
- Keep stakeholders informed of the outcomes of proactive health and safety performance monitoring activities.
- Understand the processes involved in developing proactive monitoring systems for health and safety.
- Understand the processes involved in implementing proactive monitoring systems for health and safety.
Develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safetyReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a health and safety loss event reporting and recording system, ensuring accurate and timely documentation of incidents
- Implement health and safety loss event investigation systems and procedures, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions
- Conduct statistical and epidemiological analyses of loss event data, identifying trends and patterns to inform preventative measures
- Maintain communication with stakeholders of health and safety reactive performance monitoring outcomes, providing regular updates and feedback
- Explain how to develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safety, including the selection of appropriate indicators and the establishment of performance targets
Develop and implement the health and safety policyReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Define the statutory and workplace health and safety requirements for the organisation, ensuring compliance with current legislation
- Develop the Health and Safety Policy, taking into account the specific risks and hazards within the organisation
- Implement the Health and Safety Policy, ensuring that all employees are aware of their responsibilities and that appropriate control measures are in place
- Describe the steps required to develop and implement the Health and Safety Policy, including consultation, risk assessment, and communication
Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety mattersReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the health and safety competence needs of the organisation, identifying any gaps in knowledge or skills
- Implement health and safety training to meet identified needs, ensuring that training is relevant, effective, and up-to-date
- Explain how to develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters, including performance monitoring and feedback mechanisms
Identify, assess and control health and safety risksReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct a thorough inspection of the workplace to identify potential hazards.
- Assess the identified risks to health and safety, considering their likelihood and potential severity.
- Implement appropriate risk control measures to minimise or eliminate identified hazards.
- Implement safe systems of work within the organisation to ensure employee safety.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to identify health and safety risks in the workplace.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to assess health and safety risks in the workplace.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to control health and safety risks in the workplace.
Maintain knowledge of improvements to influence health and safety practiceReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Identify new developments in health and safety, keeping up-to-date with changes in legislation, best practice, and technology
- Influence colleagues on health and safety matters, promoting a positive safety culture and encouraging safe working practices
- Explain how to maintain knowledge of improvements in health and safety practice, including methods for continuous professional development and information sharing
Promote a positive health and safety cultureReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Advocate commitment to a positive health and safety culture throughout the organisation.
- Develop links with appropriate individuals on Health and Safety matters.
- Develop links with appropriate 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.
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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.
- Carry out risk assessments and understand control measures in the offshore oil and gas industry
- Communicate risks to health, wellbeing and safety to a range of individuals and advise how the risks can be prevented, reduced or controlled
- Contribute to the formulation of policy specifically focused on improving health and wellbeing
- Control work operations safely
- Develop a healthy and safe organisational environment
- 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
Where this can lead
Risk Control Manager
Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many holds and directions. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your strengths and ambitions, whether that's becoming a deep technical expert or leading a large team.
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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
Learners will develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information. The unit covers evaluating information accuracy and relevance, designing communication channels for internal dissemination, and monitoring the effectiveness of external communication.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ProQual Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.
- 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.
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