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- The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
The OTHM Level 6 Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety provides learners with essential knowledge and skills necessary for managing health and safety in organizational contexts.
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
Health and Safety Management Practice Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of planning and organising occupational health and safety practices in the workplace
- Understand the process of leading and controlling health and safety practices in the workplace
- Understand the process of reviewing the performance of health and safety practices in the workplace
- Understand the process of monitoring and auditing health and safety practices in the workplace
- Understand corporate social responsibilities and ethical codes of conduct and their impact on health and safety management
- Understand the critical factors in the management of occupational health and well-being in the workplace
Health and Safety Management Principles and Policy Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of health and safety management and its organisational systems.
- Understand the principles of health and safety policy.
- Conduct a critical review of a health and safety policy in an organisation.
- Assess internal and external factors that influence health and safety practices.
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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Coordinate a team investigating and managing an incident or outbreak
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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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Improve Work Related Health and Safety Through Promotional Activities
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Influence health and safety duty holders and others for the purposes of work
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Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate strategies for protecting the health and wellbeing of the population
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Promote a positive health and safety culture
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Promote a safe and positive culture in the workplace
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Provide information and advice to support a health and safety culture in the workplace within safety services
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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 17 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
Health and Safety Management PracticeHealth and Safety Management Principles and PolicyPromoting 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.
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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.
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“Health and Safety Management Practice” 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.
- Coordinate a team investigating and managing an incident or outbreak
- 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
- Improve Work Related Health and Safety Through Promotional Activities
- Influence health and safety duty holders and others for the purposes of work
- Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate strategies for protecting the health and wellbeing of the population
- Promote a positive health and safety culture
- Promote a safe and positive culture in the workplace
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 Health and Safety Management Practice, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will study health and safety management practices, focusing on planning, organising, leading, controlling, monitoring, auditing, and reviewing workplace health and safety. The unit also covers leadership skills and resource allocation for effective safety management.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 6 Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Health and Safety Management Practice
- Health and Safety Management Principles and Policy
- Promoting a Positive Health and Safety Culture
- Risk and Incident Management
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