OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 7
OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits120
- Guided learning600 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by OTHM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advanced Research MethodsReal 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 SystemsReal 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 InterventionReal 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 PracticeReal 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-BeingReal 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 PracticeReal 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.
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 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
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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.
- 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
Where this can lead
Occupational Health Manager
Your journey as an Occupational Health Advisor Manager is just one exciting chapter. Whether you choose to climb the corporate ladder into executive leadership, specialise as a world-class clinical expert, or pivot into broader HR or risk management, the skills and experience you gain here will set you up for a truly impactful and rewarding career. The possibilities are genuinely vast, and we're here to support you every step of the way.
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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 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.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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
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.
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