How you’d get this certificate
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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OTHM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- 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 7 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management is a qualification for aspiring health and safety professionals. It is aimed at learners who are responsible for developing and applying health and safety procedures on a day-to-day basis in an organisation. They are likely to be managers looking to improve their knowledge and skills. The objective of the OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management qualification is to develop occupational health and safety management skills for managers who have the authority and personal attributes to translate organisational strategy into effective operational performance. This qualification reflects current practice in Occupational Health and Safety Management and allows learners to develop and expand their high-level understanding of occupational health and safety in the workplace. 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
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.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Research Methods Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop research approaches relevant to a specific area of health and safety.
- Critically review literature relevant to a specific health and safety topic, identifying key themes and research gaps.
- Design research methodologies appropriate for investigating health and safety issues.
- Plan and prepare a research project, including defining research questions, selecting appropriate methods, and outlining a timeline.
Effectiveness of Health and Safety Management Systems Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between traditional safety management models and proactive safety management models.
- Evaluate the influence of internal factors on an organisation’s safety direction.
- Evaluate the influence of external factors on an organisation’s safety direction.
- Understand the key elements that contribute to being able to present a plan which promotes a health and safety strategy for the organisation.
- Develop a plan which promotes a health and safety strategy for the organisation.
Factors Affecting Risk and Strategic Risk Intervention Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of implementing a sensible risk management programme within an organisation.
- Understand the principles of maintaining a sensible risk management programme within an organisation.
- Assess health and safety risks within the organisation to identify potential hazards.
- Evaluate health and safety risks within the organisation to determine their severity.
- Develop risk control measures to mitigate identified health and safety risks.
- Implement risk control measures to reduce the likelihood and impact of identified health and safety risks.
Health and Safety Management Practice Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what contributes to an effective health and safety culture and climate in an organisation.
- Understand reasons for the effective management of health and safety.
- Review organisational structures and practices relating to health and safety.
Strategic Commitment to Health and Well-Being Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the strategy and policy of a business in order to develop commitment to an integrated health, well-being and safety strategy.
- Champion plans and engage all levels of the business to ensure the health, well-being and safety strategy is actioned effectively.
- Monitor the implementation of the health, well-being and safety strategy to ensure its effectiveness.
- Evaluate the impact of the implemented health, well-being and safety strategy on the business.
- Understand the range of occupational health and well-being challenges that affect the safety and welfare of employees.
- Understand the impact of occupational health and well-being challenges on the reputation and standing of the business.
- Understand the relative threats posed by occupational health and well-being challenges to the business.
Sustainability and Ethics in Health and Safety Practice Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure the business integrates a strategy and implementation plan for sustainability alongside its core health and safety objectives in all its undertakings.
- Demonstrate improvements in behaviours at all levels of the business as a result of developing and implementing improved business sustainability practices.
- Demonstrate improvements in behaviours in all working relationships as a result of developing and implementing improved ethical practices.
- Understand the scope for ethical business practices on the part of the health and safety professional.
- Understand the scope for developing engagement and commitment to ethical behaviours and measures within the organisation.
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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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Develop and agree strategies to meet the health and wellbeing needs of a population
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Develop, implement and review the organisation's health and safety strategy
- Standard
Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate strategies for protecting the health and wellbeing of the population
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 192 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
Health and Safety Manager
This role can lead to director of health and safety, running policy and risk across a wider division, or head of EHS, overseeing both safety and environmental performance.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 7 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
Advanced Research MethodsEffectiveness of Health and Safety Management SystemsFactors Affecting Risk and Strategic Risk InterventionHealth and Safety Management PracticeStrategic Commitment to Health and Well-BeingSustainability and Ethics in Health and Safety Practice
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
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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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- Lead it Apply
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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.
- Develop and agree strategies to meet the health and wellbeing needs of a population
- Develop, implement and review the organisation's health and safety strategy
- Plan, implement, monitor and evaluate strategies for protecting the health and wellbeing of the population
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 Advanced Research Methods, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit equips learners to develop research approaches and critically review litreature relevant to health and safety topics. Learners will design research methodologies and plan research projects to investigate specific health and safety issues.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Advanced Research Methods
- Effectiveness of Health and Safety Management Systems
- Factors Affecting Risk and Strategic Risk Intervention
- Health and Safety Management Practice
- Strategic Commitment to Health and Well-Being
- Sustainability and Ethics in Health and Safety Practice
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