How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OTHM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
The Level 6 qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety are developed to provide learners who have or are looking to develop into a senior role in an organisation for managing health and safety policy and practice. Learners will gain the skills and knowledge to understand the legal and regulatory background to occupational health and safety policy, to be able to assess policies, as well as to recommend and implement policy changes. Learners will develop knowledge and skills relevant to putting policy into practice, utilising management systems, resources, risk and incident management, leadership, management and skills development. Individuals successfully completing the diploma qualification will be eligible to apply for the Certified level of membership CertIOSH.
These are the units OTHM Qualifications 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OTHM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. OTHM Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Development of the Health and Safety Practitioner Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of health and safety practitioners
- Assess organisational competence and skills requirements for health and safety practitioners
- Produce a personal and professional development plan in own area of responsibility as a health and safety practitioner
Health and Safety Law, Regulation and Influence Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand international frameworks for legislation, regulation, and enforcement related to health and safety, including the roles of international organisations and conventions.
- Understand statutory and regulatory obligations for maintaining health and safety in an organisation, including relevant legislation, codes of practice, and guidance documents.
- Understand the industry and community roles in influencing and promoting local and national positive health and safety outcomes, including the roles of trade unions, professional bodies, and community groups.
Health and Safety Management Principles and Policy Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes of planning and organising occupational health and safety practices in the workplace.
- Understand the processes of leading and controlling health and safety practices in the workplace.
Maintaining a Safe Workplace Environment Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of factors to consider when maintaining a safe work environment, including legal, ethical, and practical considerations.
- Understand the hazards, risks, and control measures applicable to a range of workplace contexts, including offices, construction sites, and healthcare settings.
- Understand the maintenance of fire safety and protection against explosion, including fire prevention measures, emergency procedures, and the use of fire-fighting equipment.
- Understand the safe storage, handling, and management of hazardous substances, including biological agents, in accordance with relevant regulations and best practices.
- Understand the safe management of work equipment and machinery, including risk assessment, maintenance, and training requirements.
Promoting a Positive Health and Safety Culture Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key organisational factors that influence the health and safety culture in the workplace, including communication, leadership, and employee involvement.
- Understand key human factors that influence health and safety performance and behaviour in the workplace, including perception, attention, and decision-making.
- Understand the impact of leadership, structure, and consultation on the health and safety culture of an organisation, including the role of management in promoting a positive safety culture.
- Develop a strategy to improve the health and safety culture of an organisation, including setting objectives, implementing interventions, and monitoring progress.
Risk and Incident Management Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes and strategies for identifying hazards and evaluating risk levels when carrying out risk assessments in an organisation, including qualitative and quantitative risk assessment techniques.
- Understand the strategies and techniques of risk control, including the hierarchy of control measures (elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment).
- Understand the models of loss causation, analysis of loss data, and the importance of incident investigation in identifying root causes and preventing future incidents.
- Understand processes and strategies to manage health and safety incidents in an organisation, including incident reporting, investigation, and corrective action planning.
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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Contribute to health and safety legal actions
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Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters
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Develop materials for information and education for specific audiences to support their engagement and participation in health protection processes
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Develop, implement and monitor behavioural safety in the workplace
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Draft and serve notices or other statutory enforceable documents for the purposes of work
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Enforce statutory provisions and brief prosecutors for the purposes of work
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Influence and keep pace with improvements in health and safety practice
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Influence health and safety duty holders and others for the purposes of work
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Inspect duty holders, worksites and activities for the purposes of work
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Support the management of risks at incidents
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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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 186 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Safety and Risk Manager
This work can lead to a lead safety professional or principal risk advisor role, or on to a safety and risk manager post overseeing a wider team.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OTHM Qualifications 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
Development of the Health and Safety PractitionerHealth and Safety Law, Regulation and InfluenceHealth and Safety Management Principles and PolicyMaintaining a Safe Workplace EnvironmentPromoting a Positive Health and Safety CultureRisk and Incident Management
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 Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration - Draft the real one Create
You do “Health and Safety Management Principles and Policy” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Risk and Incident Management” 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.
- Contribute to health and safety legal actions
- 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
- Develop, implement and monitor behavioural safety in the workplace
- Draft and serve notices or other statutory enforceable documents for the purposes of work
- Enforce statutory provisions and brief prosecutors for the purposes of work
- Influence and keep pace with improvements in health and safety practice
- Influence health and safety duty holders and others for the purposes of work
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 Development of the Health and Safety Practitioner, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit enables learners to understand the roles and responsibilities of health and safety practitioners across organisational contexts. Learners will assess competence requirements and produce personal and professional development plans within their area of responsibility.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Development of the Health and Safety Practitioner
- Health and Safety Law, Regulation and Influence
- Health and Safety Management Principles and Policy
- Maintaining a Safe Workplace Environment
- Promoting a Positive Health and Safety Culture
- Risk and Incident Management
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