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- The centre assesses, and ProQual Awarding Body awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ProQual Awarding Body.
The Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety is aimed at those responsible for health and safety in the workplace. It covers key areas such as promoting a health and safety culture, conducting risk assessments, and reviewing safety procedures. Achievement demonstrates competence in managing health and safety within an occupational setting.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of the workplace Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for a workplace risk assessment, including gathering relevant information and resources.
- Identify hazards in the workplace, using appropriate techniques and tools.
- Conduct a risk assessment of the workplace, evaluating the likelihood and severity of potential harm.
- Review the risk assessment, ensuring it remains accurate and up-to-date.
- Know the employer's responsibility for risk assessments as required by current legislation, including legal duties and obligations.
Develop procedures to safely control work operations Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Develop procedures for maintaining a healthy and safe workplace, in accordance with relevant legislation and organisational policies.
- Review the effectiveness of existing health and safety procedures in the workplace, identifying areas for improvement.
- Communicate health and safety procedures effectively to others in the workplace, ensuring understanding and compliance.
- Explain the legal responsibilities of employers and employees for health and safety in the workplace.
Develop procedures to safely control work operations Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Develop procedures for maintaining a healthy and safe workplace, ensuring they are comprehensive and compliant with relevant legislation
- Review the effectiveness of health and safety procedures in the workplace, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary changes
- Communicate health and safety procedures to others in the workplace, ensuring they are understood and followed correctly
- Know the legal responsibilities for health and safety, including relevant legislation and regulations
Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safety Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Identify potential hazards present in the workplace, using appropriate risk assessment techniques.
- Evaluate the risks associated with identified hazards in the workplace, determining the level of potential harm.
- Implement measures to reduce the identified risks to health and safety in the workplace, prioritising the most significant risks.
- Describe methods for reducing risks to health and safety in the workplace, including control measures and safe working practices.
Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safety Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and appropriately deal with hazards and risks arising from working practices and the work environment that are not covered by existing workplace risk assessments
- Reduce the risks to health and safety in the workplace through the implementation of appropriate control measures
- Acknowledge the importance of the needs and requirements of all people at the workplace, including colleagues, clients and visitors
- Communicate workplace findings, including identified hazards and implemented control measures, in line with accepted standards and organisational procedures
Investigate and evaluate health and safety incidents and complaints in the workplace Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate and report workplace incidents and complaints in accordance with workplace requirements.
- Make recommendations as a result of workplace investigations.
- Know the employers’ and employees’ legal responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace.
Investigate and evaluate health and safety incidents and complaints in the workplace Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate and report workplace incidents and complaints thoroughly, in accordance with legal and workplace requirements.
- Evaluate the findings of workplace investigations to identify root causes and contributing factors.
- Make clear and actionable recommendations as a result of workplace investigations, aimed at preventing recurrence.
- Explain the employers’ and employees’ legal responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace, with reference to incident reporting.
Make sure actions in the workplace aim to protect the environment Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Identify risks to the environment arising from activities and processes within the workplace
- Minimise the risks to the environment arising from activities and processes within the workplace
- Know the key legislation relating to environmental matters that affect own workplace
Make sure actions in the workplace aim to protect the environment Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Identify potential risks to the environment arising from activities in the workplace, considering all aspects of operations.
- Implement measures to minimise the identified risks to the environment arising from the workplace, following best practice guidelines.
- Explain the key legislation relating to environmental matters that affect own workplace, demonstrating an understanding of legal requirements.
Monitor procedures to safely control work operations Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Check that health and safety instructions are being followed consistently in the workplace, identifying any deviations from procedures.
- Recommend changes to health and safety workplace instructions based on monitoring and evaluation, to improve effectiveness.
- Ensure that identified hazards and risks are controlled safely and effectively, using appropriate control measures.
- Describe how to monitor procedures to safely control work operations, including the use of observation, audits, and feedback.
Promote a culture of health and safety in the workplace Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Develop plans to promote a health and safety culture in the workplace, taking into account relevant legislation and best practice.
- Implement the plan to promote a health and safety culture in the workplace, ensuring effective communication and engagement with employees.
- Monitor and review the plan to promote a health and safety culture in the workplace, identifying areas for improvement.
- Know the reasons for promoting a health and safety culture in the workplace, including legal, ethical, and business benefits.
Review health and safety procedures in the workplace Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake a review of health and safety in the workplace, gathering information from various sources.
- Carry out a review of workplace health and safety, identifying areas of strength and weakness.
- Review health and safety procedures in workplaces, including relevant legislation and best practice guidelines.
Supervise the health, safety and welfare of a learner in the workplace Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for and receive a trainee in the workplace, ensuring all necessary arrangements are in place
- Supervise, monitor and review the health, safety and welfare of a learner in the workplace, providing appropriate support and guidance
- Introduce a trainee to the workplace, covering relevant policies, procedures and expectations
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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(Not specified)
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Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of a workplace
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Conduct an assessment of risks in the workplace
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Conduct health and safety risk assessments of a workplace
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Conducting dynamic risk assessments during Security Search
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Contribute to the investigation and reporting of accidents, incidents and near misses within safety services
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Control work operations safely
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Coordinate the gathering of field information to assess risks to health
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Develop and Maintain Health and Safety Procedures in Life Sciences and Related Industries
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Develop and implement health and safety induction processes
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Develop procedures to safely control work operations
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Develop, implement and monitor behavioural safety in the workplace
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Gather specific information from individuals to contribute to assessing risks to health and wellbeing
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Investigate Incidents and Distribute Lessons Learned in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
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Investigate Work
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Investigate and evaluate health and safety incidents and complaints at work
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Investigate and evaluate incidents of violence at work
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Investigate and report on events to inform future practice
Showing 18 of 30 standards these units map to.
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Regional Risk Assessment Assistant
This role can lead to work as a Senior Risk Analyst, leading incident investigations and HAZOP studies. It can also lead to a Lead Risk Specialist role, managing risk assessment programmes across a site or region.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ProQual Awarding Body rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of the workplaceDevelop procedures to safely control work operationsDevelop procedures to safely control work operationsEnsure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safetyEnsure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safetyInvestigate and evaluate health and safety incidents and complaints in the workplaceInvestigate and evaluate health and safety incidents and complaints in the workplaceMake sure actions in the workplace aim to protect the environment
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Investigate and evaluate health and safety incidents and complaints in the workplace” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of the workplace” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Monitor procedures to safely control work operations” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Supervise the health, safety and welfare of a learner in the workplace” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- (Not specified)
- Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of a workplace
- Conduct an assessment of risks in the workplace
- Conduct health and safety risk assessments of a workplace
- Conducting dynamic risk assessments during Security Search
- Contribute to the investigation and reporting of accidents, incidents and near misses within safety services
- Control work operations safely
- Coordinate the gathering of field information to assess risks to health
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of the workplace, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to prepare for and conduct comprehensive workplace health and safety risk assessments. The unit includes hazard identification, risk evaluation, and review processes to maintain accurate and effective assessments.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ProQual Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.
- Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of the workplace
- Develop procedures to safely control work operations
- Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safety
- Investigate and evaluate health and safety incidents and complaints in the workplace
- Make sure actions in the workplace aim to protect the environment
- Monitor procedures to safely control work operations
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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