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 NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
This qualification assesses the competence of occupational health and safety practitioners, aimed at those responsible for developing, implementing, and reviewing health and safety procedures within an organisation.
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. 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 NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN 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
Control Health and Safety Risks Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and minimise risks.
Develop and Implement Effective Communication Systems for Health and Safety Information Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and implement communication systems.
Develop and Implement Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and Procedures Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Develop emergency response procedures.
Develop and Implement Health and Safety Induction Processes Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Creation and implementation of induction programs.
Develop and Implement Health and Safety Review Systems Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct health and safety reviews.
Develop and Implement the Health and Safety Policy Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Formulate a health and safety policy.
Develop and Maintain Individual and Organisational Competence in Health and Safety Matters Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the process for maintaining competence.
Develop, Implement and Monitor Behavioural Safety in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Implementation of behavioural safety programs.
Develop, Implement and Review Proactive Monitoring Systems for Health and Safety Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Development of a monitoring system.
Develop, Implement and Review Reactive Monitoring Systems for Health and Safety Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of reactive monitoring.
Influence and Keep Pace with Improvements in Health and Safety Practice Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Incorporate new practices into health and safety strategies.
Manage Contractors to Ensure Compliance with Health and Safety Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Supervise contractor compliance.
Promote a Positive Health and Safety Culture Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of positive health and safety culture.
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 the formulation of policy specifically focused on improving health and wellbeing
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Control health and safety risks
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Develop and Implement Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and Procedures
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Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information
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Develop and implement health and safety review systems
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Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters
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Develop, implement and review proactive monitoring systems for health and safety
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Develop, implement and review reactive monitoring systems for health and safety
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Develop, implement and review the organisation's health and safety strategy
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Develop, maintain and evaluate emergency plans and arrangements
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Influence and keep pace with improvements in health and safety practice
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Manage contractors to ensure compliance with health and safety
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Promote a positive health and safety culture
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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Where this can lead
Behavioural Safety Specialist
This role can lead to managing a team of safety professionals as a Behavioural Safety Manager, or shaping safety strategy across a business unit as a Lead Behavioural Safety Strategist.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN 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
Control Health and Safety RisksDevelop and Implement Effective Communication Systems for Health and Safety InformationDevelop and Implement Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and ProceduresDevelop and Implement Health and Safety Induction ProcessesDevelop and Implement Health and Safety Review SystemsDevelop and Implement the Health and Safety PolicyDevelop and Maintain Individual and Organisational Competence in Health and Safety MattersDevelop, Implement and Monitor Behavioural Safety in the Workplace
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 Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Develop and Implement Effective Communication Systems for Health and Safety Information” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Develop and Implement Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and Procedures” 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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Develop and Implement Health and Safety Review Systems” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Manage Contractors to Ensure Compliance with Health and Safety” 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 the formulation of policy specifically focused on improving health and wellbeing
- Control health and safety risks
- Develop and Implement Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and Procedures
- Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information
- Develop and implement health and safety review systems
- Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters
- Develop, implement and review proactive monitoring systems for health and safety
- Develop, implement and review reactive monitoring systems for health and safety
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 Control Health and Safety Risks, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Identify and control health and safety risks effectively.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NOCN Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Control Health and Safety Risks
- Develop and Implement Effective Communication Systems for Health and Safety Information
- Develop and Implement Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and Procedures
- Develop and Implement Health and Safety Induction Processes
- Develop and Implement Health and Safety Review Systems
- Develop and Implement the Health and Safety Policy
and 7 more in the full unit list below.
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