ProQual Awarding Body · RQF Level 3
ProQual Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits31
- Guided learning161 hours
- Units in this qualification13
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
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of the workplaceReal 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 operationsReal 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 operationsReal 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 safetyReal 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 safetyReal 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 workplaceReal 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 workplaceReal 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 environmentReal 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 environmentReal 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 operationsReal 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 workplaceReal 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 workplaceReal 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 workplaceReal 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 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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 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
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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.
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- 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
Where this can lead
Regional Risk Assessment Assistant
Your journey starts here, learning the fundamentals. With dedication, continuous learning, and a proactive approach, you can build a truly impactful and rewarding career in Compliance, Quality, Health, and Safety, making a real difference to people's lives every single day.
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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 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.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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.
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
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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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