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- The centre assesses, and GQA Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from GQA Qualifications Limited.
The GQA Level 2 Certificate focuses on the principles of process safety management. It is designed for individuals who contribute to process safety in a business management context. Learners develop an understanding of relevant regulations, risk identification, and the implementation of safety barriers.
These are the units GQA Qualifications Limited 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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
CONTRIBUTE TO ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND IMPROVING PROCESS SAFETY Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate involvement in the accident investigation process
- Demonstrate involvement in the audit process
- Contribute to the delivery of Process Safety Performance Indicators (Leading and Lagging) in the work environment
- Contribute to the process safety improvement plans in the work environment
CONTRIBUTE TO IDENTIFYING AND PROFILING RISK/S IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the risk assessment tools relevant to effective process safety management
- Contribute to carrying out the risk assessment process
- Contribute to the development of a risk control action plan
Contribute to Leadership in Effective Process Safety Management Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to leading in effective process safety management.
- Commit to effective process safety management.
- Communicate effective process safety management requirements to relevant stakeholders.
- Use and promote process safety management requirements and goals.
IDENTIFY AND COMMUNICATE PROCESS SAFETY HAZARDS Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the hazard identification tools relevant to effective process safety management
- Demonstrate the correct use of the hazard identification tools relevant to effective process safety management
- Identify the essential information generated from the hazard identification process
- Communicate process safety hazards effectively
IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT PROCESS SAFETY BARRIERS Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how inherently safer processes and process safety barriers are deployed
- Demonstrate involvement in the implementation of prevention process safety barriers
- Demonstrate involvement in the implementation of control process safety barriers
- Demonstrate involvement in the implementation of mitigation process safety barriers
- Operate process safety systems effectively
- Maintain standards relevant for effective process safety management
- Maintain procedures relevant for effective process safety management
- Maintain policies relevant for effective process safety management
- Contribute to the management of change process
- Use safety critical tasks effectively
- Use safety critical equipment effectively
- Carry out inspection as required by schedules to deliver effective process safety management
- Carry out maintenance as required by schedules to deliver effective process safety management
- Perform appropriate actions according to the Emergency Response Plan
UNDERSTAND THE RELEVANT REGULATIONS, INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESS SAFETY Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of the Process Safety Leadership Group
- Understand the core principles of the Process Safety Leadership Group
- Understand the relevant frameworks for effective process safety management
- Understand the relevant regulations relating to process safety
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the Competent Authority
Understand the principles of Process Safety Management Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of ineffective process safety management on organisations
- Understand the impact of ineffective process safety management on individuals
- Understand the role of the competent authority regarding process safety management
- Understand the principles of leadership in effective process safety management
- Understand how to identify major accident hazards in a process plant
- Understand how to evaluate risks associated with major accident hazards throughout the process plant lifecycle
- Understand how to interpret risks associated with major accident hazards throughout the process plant lifecycle
- Understand how to profile risks associated with major accident hazards throughout the process plant lifecycle
- Understand process safety barriers
- Understand the concept of inherent safety
- Understand how to investigate process safety management systems
- Understand how to investigate process safety management processes
- Understand own responsibility regarding associated regulations associated with effective process safety management
- Understand own responsibility regarding associated systems associated with effective process safety management
- Understand own responsibility regarding associated industry models associated with effective process safety management
- Understand how and why continuous improvement is required for an effective process safety management system
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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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Process Quality Specialist Manager
This work can lead to roles overseeing risk and compliance across an organisation, or to leading operations divisions where quality and safety are built into every stage of production.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited 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
CONTRIBUTE TO ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND IMPROVING PROCESS SAFETYCONTRIBUTE TO IDENTIFYING AND PROFILING RISK/S IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENTContribute to Leadership in Effective Process Safety ManagementIDENTIFY AND COMMUNICATE PROCESS SAFETY HAZARDSIDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT PROCESS SAFETY BARRIERSUNDERSTAND THE RELEVANT REGULATIONS, INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESS SAFETYUnderstand the principles of Process Safety Management
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 “IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT PROCESS SAFETY BARRIERS” 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.
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“CONTRIBUTE TO IDENTIFYING AND PROFILING RISK/S IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT” 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.
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 CONTRIBUTE TO ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND IMPROVING PROCESS SAFETY, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will contribute to accident investigation and process safety improvement within the workplace. The unit includes involvement in accident investigations and audits, and supporting the delivery and analysis of Process Safety Performance Indicators to enhance safety outcomes.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for GQA Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Process Safety Management
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- CONTRIBUTE TO ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND IMPROVING PROCESS SAFETY
- CONTRIBUTE TO IDENTIFYING AND PROFILING RISK/S IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT
- Contribute to Leadership in Effective Process Safety Management
- IDENTIFY AND COMMUNICATE PROCESS SAFETY HAZARDS
- IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT PROCESS SAFETY BARRIERS
- UNDERSTAND THE RELEVANT REGULATIONS, INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESS SAFETY
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
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