NOCN · RQF Level 3
NOCN 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
- Guided learning260 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Qualification Number 603/6133/5 Total Qualification Time (TQT) 320 Credits 32 Minimum Age 18 Level Level 3 Registration Start Date 1/8/2020 Current Tariff £87.00 UCAS Points 8 IOSH accreditation: This programme has been accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). Eligible enrolled students can access IOSH Student Membership for the duration of their studies and, on successful completion of the Level 3 qualification, plus one year relevant experience, they will meet the academic requirements for Technical (Tech IOSH) membership. As IOSH is the only organisation in the world that offers Chartered membership to health and safety practitioners, this can help you achieve the highest professional standards and gain international recognition. Important: Requirement for IOSH Membership If you intend to use this qualification to apply for IOSH membership, please read the following carefully: Learners MUST complete two specific optional units to be eligible for IOSH membership. To meet IOSH’s membership requirements, learners MUST successfully complete: K/618/3049 Develop Procedures to Safely Control Work Operations D/618/3050 Investigate and Evaluate Health and Safety Incidents and Complaints at Work Completing the qualification without these units will not meet IOSH membership criteria. What centres need to do Centres must select these optional units at registration for any learner who wishes to progress to IOSH membership. Centres must inform learners at enrolment that these units are required. What learners need to do Ensure your centre has registered you for the correct optional units if IOSH membership is your goal. See Qualification Details section on page 7 for conditions. Purpose of the Qualification This qualification aims to equip learners with the knowledge and understanding to progress into a job role in health and safety. It is generic and, therefore, suitable for those wishing to work in health and safety positions in various sectors
These are the units NOCN 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.
Awareness of Hazards in the WorkplaceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Identify common workplace hazards.
Comply with Health and Safety Requirements in the WorkplaceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of health and safety legislation.
- Comply with health and safety policies and procedures.
Conduct a Health and Safety Risk Assessment of a WorkplaceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct risk assessments accurately.
Control Work Operations SafelyReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procedures to control safe work operations.
Develop Procedures to Safely Control Work OperationsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Develop operational procedures that enhance safety.
Investigate and Evaluate Health and Safety Incidents and Complaints at WorkReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate workplace incidents comprehensively.
Personal Actions to Reduce Risks to Health and SafetyReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand personal responsibilities in health and safety.
Review Health and Safety Procedures at Workplaces Other Than Their ownReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to undertake a review of health and safety in the workplace, including identifying the scope of the review and gathering relevant documentation.
- Understand how to undertake a review of health and safety in the workplace, including identifying hazards, assessing risks, and evaluating existing control measures.
- Undertake a review of health and safety in the workplace, documenting findings and making recommendations for improvement.
- Carry out post-review actions, including implementing recommendations, monitoring progress, and communicating findings to relevant stakeholders.
Supervise Health, Safety and Welfare of Individuals at WorkReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for supervision of individuals at work, including understanding relevant health and safety procedures and identifying potential hazards.
- Carry out checks prior to the individual starting work, including ensuring that equipment is safe and that the individual is properly trained.
- Provide ongoing supervision of health, safety and welfare of individuals at work, including monitoring their performance, providing feedback, and addressing any concerns.
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 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
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.
- Carry out the security risk assessment for the client and its stakeholders
- Conducting dynamic risk assessments during Security Search
- Conducting dynamic risk assessments during locksmith activities
- Control work operations safely
- Investigate Incidents and Distribute Lessons Learned in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
- Supervise health, safety and welfare of individuals at work
Where this can lead
Health and Safety Training Specialist
Your journey here isn't a fixed ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many routes to the top. We're here to support your development, whether you want to become a deep technical expert or move into leadership. The main thing is your commitment to making our workplace safer, every single day.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 168 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 provides understanding of common workplace hazards and the appropriate responses.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NOCN Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Awareness of Hazards in the Workplace
- Comply with Health and Safety Requirements in the Workplace
- Conduct a Health and Safety Risk Assessment of a Workplace
- Control Work Operations Safely
- Develop Procedures to Safely Control Work Operations
- Investigate and Evaluate Health and Safety Incidents and Complaints at Work
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
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.
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.