OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 6
OTHM Level 6 Diploma 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 6
- Total credits60
- Guided learning220 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by OTHM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Development of the Health and Safety PractitionerReal 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 InfluenceReal 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 PolicyReal 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 EnvironmentReal 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 CultureReal 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 ManagementReal 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 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 6 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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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 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
Where this can lead
Safety and Risk Manager
Your journey in safety and risk management is about continuous learning and increasing impact. Whether you choose to lead teams or become a deep technical expert, the opportunities to make a real difference in people's lives and business resilience are immense. We're here to help you build that career.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 241 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
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.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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
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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