Qualifi Ltd · RQF Level 5
Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma 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 5
- Total credits240
- Guided learning960 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by Qualifi Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The extended diploma is aimed at individuals working in occupational health and safety within the health and social care sector. It includes communication systems, process management, emergency response, health and safety audits, and leadership strategy.
These are the units Qualifi Ltd 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.
Communication Systems for Health and Safety InformationReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate health and safety information from various sources for accuracy and relevance.
- Develop effective communication systems for disseminating health and safety information within an organisation.
- Implement communication systems to ensure health and safety information reaches the intended audience.
- Analyse the external factors that influence the effectiveness of communication systems for health and safety information.
- Explain how effective communication systems for health and safety information are developed and implemented within an organisation.
Controlling Health and Safety RisksReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and evaluate hazards to health and safety in the workplace
- Assess risks to health and safety
- Implement risk control measures and safe systems of work in the organisation
- Understand how to identify, assess and control health and safety risks
Health and Safety AuditReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and role of health and safety audit systems within the organisation
- Prepare to audit the health and safety management system
- Carry out a health and safety audit in accordance with the agreed specification
- Make recommendations based on the results of the health and safety audit
Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and ProceduresReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop health and safety emergency plan procedures that are appropriate for the organisation.
- Develop and implement emergency preparedness measures for the organisation, including training and drills.
- Implement procedures for the control of a health and safety emergency, ensuring the safety of personnel and the environment.
- Explain how to develop and implement comprehensive health and safety emergency response systems and procedures.
Individual and Organisational Competence in Health and Safety MattersReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters
- Assess the health and safety competence needs of the organisation
- Meet identified health and safety training needs
Leadership Strategy for Occupational Health and SafetyReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand strategic approaches to occupational health and safety management
- Understand the role of leadership in promoting occupational health and safety
- Contribute to the development of an organisational health and safety strategy
- Support a positive health and safety culture through strategic leadership
People Management for Occupational Health and SafetyReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of people management in occupational health and safety
- Understand how to engage and communicate with people in relation to health and safety
- Supervise and support individuals to meet health and safety requirements
- Understand how to support workforce development in health and safety
Positive Health and Safety CultureReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and role of a positive health and safety culture within the organisation
- Understand how to gain commitment to a positive health and safety culture in the organisation
- Develop links with appropriate people and groups on health and safety matters
- Develop plans to promote a health and safety culture in the workplace
- Implement plans to promote a health and safety culture in the workplace
Proactive Monitoring Systems for Health and SafetyReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop and implement proactive monitoring systems for health and safety
- Devise inspection and monitoring systems for proactive performance monitoring
- Keep stakeholders informed of health and safety proactive performance monitoring outcomes
Process Management and Review for Occupational Health and SafetyReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the principles of process management in occupational health and safety.
- Evaluate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of health and safety management systems in different areas of the workplace.
- Design effective health and safety processes for specific workplace activities.
- Implement and monitor health and safety processes to ensure compliance and effectiveness.
- Review and improve occupational health and safety (OHS) processes based on monitoring data and feedback.
Process Management for Occupational Health and SafetyReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of process management in occupational health and safety
- Understand the design and purpose of OHS processes
- Implement and support health and safety processes in the workplace
- Understand the importance of improving OHS processes
Reactive Monitoring Systems for Health and SafetyReal unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safety
- Develop a health and safety loss event reporting and recording system
- Implement health and safety loss event investigation systems and procedures
- Conduct statistical and epidemiological analyses
- Maintain communication with stakeholders of health and safety reactive performance monitoring outcomes
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 5 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.
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- Communicate risks to health, wellbeing and safety to a range of individuals and advise how the risks can be prevented, reduced or controlled
- Comply with an external audit of data and information in a health context
- Control health and safety risks
- Control work operations safely
- 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 audits
Where this can lead
Senior Safety Audit Manager
Your journey in safety audit is one of continuous learning and increasing impact. We're looking for someone who sees this role not just as a job, but as a critical mission to protect our people and our planet. If you're up for the challenge, the opportunities here are vast.
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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 enables learners to evaluate health and safety information sources and design effective communication systems within organisations. Learners will consider external factors influencing communication and develop strategies to ensure accessibility and accuracy of health and safety information.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifi Ltd.
- Communication Systems for Health and Safety Information
- Controlling Health and Safety Risks
- Health and Safety Audit
- Health and Safety Emergency Response Systems and Procedures
- Individual and Organisational Competence in Health and Safety Matters
- Leadership Strategy for Occupational Health and Safety
and 6 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.