Training Qualifications UK Ltd · RQF Level 2
TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Health and Safety for Union Representatives (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits13
- Guided learning103 hours
- Units in this qualification5
Awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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These are the units Training Qualifications UK Ltd 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.
Health and safety for membersReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Involve members in health and safety matters, ensuring their active participation
- Inform members on health and safety matters, providing them with relevant information
- Understand the impact of mental ill health on members, recognising the potential effects on their well-being
- Understand the impact of mental ill health on colleagues, recognising the potential effects on their well-being
- Understand gender related health and safety issues experienced at work, identifying specific challenges faced by different genders
- Understand the specific health and safety issues experienced at work by disabled members, identifying specific challenges faced by disabled members
Health and safety in the workplace for union safety representativesReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the approach to health and safety in the workplace of a specific union, knowing their policies and procedures
- Understand how to prepare for a workplace health and safety inspection, knowing the steps to take and the information to gather
Health, safety and the lawReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legal documents relevant to health and safety in the workplace, identifying key legislation and guidance
- Know the guidance relevant to health and safety in the workplace, identifying key legislation and guidance
- Use the Safety Rep and Safety Committee’s regulations, applying them to workplace situations
- Understand the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, knowing the key duties and responsibilities
- Understand common law duties in relation to health and safety, recognising the legal obligations of employers and employees
- Understand civil law and court systems in the UK and Republic of Ireland, knowing how legal disputes are resolved
- Understand the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, knowing the requirements for managing health and safety in the workplace
Risk assessments and safety policies and procedures in the workplaceReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and principles of risk assessments in the workplace
- Understand the different types of hazards and risks that may be present in the workplace
- Understand how to conduct a risk assessment, following a systematic process
- Conduct a risk assessment on a workplace scenario, applying knowledge and skills to a practical situation
- Assess the effectiveness of a health and safety policy, evaluating its impact on workplace safety
- Understand accident procedures, knowing the steps to take in the event of an accident
- Understand Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations (RIDDOR), knowing the legal requirements for reporting incidents
- Understand the risks involved with using hazardous substances at work, identifying potential dangers and control measures
Roles and responsibilities of a union safety representativeReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of a trained Union Health and Safety Rep, knowing their responsibilities and powers
- Understand how health and safety committees function in the workplace, knowing their purpose and how they operate
- Understand how to deliver an effective health and safety induction, knowing the key information to provide to new employees
- Identify the main hazards and health and safety problems faced by members, recognising potential risks in the workplace
- Understand how to take positive action on health and safety problems on behalf of members, knowing how to address concerns and implement solutions
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 2 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
The Evidence Evaluator
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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 Workplace Health and Safety Committees v2
- Contribute to the control of risks as a union health and safety representative v2
- Draft and serve notices or other statutory enforceable documents for the purposes of work
Where this can lead
Junior CQHS Risk Analyst
Your journey starts here, learning the fundamentals. Where you go next is really up to you and your ambition. We're here to support you every step of the way, whether you want to become a deep technical expert or eventually lead a team. We're investing in you for the long haul.
See the whole journey →Showing 5 roles, drawn from 6 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
Learners will understand how to involve and inform members on health and safety matters, including mental health and gender-related issues. The unit also addresses health and safety concerns specific to disabled members and promotes member participation.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Health and Safety for Union Representatives (RQF)
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd.
- Health and safety for members
- Health and safety in the workplace for union safety representatives
- Health, safety and the law
- Risk assessments and safety policies and procedures in the workplace
- Roles and responsibilities of a union safety representative
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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.