UK courses by subject
Health and safety
44 regulated courses in health and safety, from 17 awarding bodies.
Keeping people safe, and being able to show you did. Risk, safeguarding, food safety and the paperwork that has to stand up afterwards.
Before the list
The course is the same wherever you take it. The teaching is not.
These run from Level 2 to Level 7, and most of them sit at Level 3. That tells you nothing about where YOU should start. Every health and safety course below is a regulated award, and the award is identical whoever you earn it with. What changes here is that you do it with a tutor that adapts to you, one to one, on the work you already have in front of you.
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It starts where you actually are
Not at the entry requirement. The first session works out what you can already do, which on a subject you have worked in for years is usually further along than the syllabus assumes, and it begins from there.
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It gives you as much as you can hold
How much anyone can take in at once is smaller than it feels, and it is not the same on a tired Thursday as on a clear Sunday. The size of a session moves with that instead of running to a fixed lesson length.
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It keeps it just hard enough
Easy is not the same as effective. Work that is slightly too hard is what makes it stick, so the difficulty is tuned to keep you there rather than dropped to keep you comfortable.
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It brings it back before you lose it
Forgetting a little and then pulling it back is what fixes something. What you covered in week two returns in week five, at the point it is starting to fade, without you having to plan any of it.
See the research See the teaching itself What Zavmo adds to a course
Who awards health and safety
The same subject, from every body on the register that offers it. Zavmo tutors any of them; the body you pick is the one whose award you end up holding.
- Qualifi Ltd
- FDQ Limited Their site (opens in a new tab)
- NOCN Their site (opens in a new tab)
- ProQual Awarding Body Their site (opens in a new tab)
- SFJ Awards Their site (opens in a new tab)
- Awarding Body for the Built Environment Their site (opens in a new tab)
- Highfield Qualifications Their site (opens in a new tab)
- OTHM Qualifications Their site (opens in a new tab)
- The Institution of Fire Engineers
- FireQual
- Royal Society for Public Health
- Training Qualifications UK Ltd Their site (opens in a new tab)
- Chartered Institute of Building
- City and Guilds of London Institute Their site (opens in a new tab)
- Gatehouse Awards Ltd
- Occupational Awards Limited
- Qualifications Network
Every health and safety course we hold
- Level 3 · Awarding Body for the Built Environment ABBE Level 3 Certificate in Fire Risk Assessment View
- Level 4 · Awarding Body for the Built Environment ABBE Level 4 Award in Understanding the Principles and Practices of Fire Safety Management in Residential Property View
- Level 4 · Awarding Body for the Built Environment ABBE Level 4 Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment View
- Level 6 · Chartered Institute of Building CIOB Level 6 Certificate in Fire Safety for Construction View
- Level 6 · City and Guilds of London Institute City & Guilds Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice View
- Level 2 · FDQ Limited FDQ Level 2 Award in Food Safety for Manufacturing (Meat and Poultry) View
- Level 2 · FDQ Limited FDQ Level 2 Award in Food Safety for the Food Industry View
- Level 3 · FDQ Limited FDQ Level 3 Award In Food Safety Supervision for the Food Industry View
- Level 4 · FDQ Limited FDQ Level 4 Award In Food Safety Management for the Food Industry View
- Level 4 · FireQual FireQual Level 4 Certificate in Intermediate Fire Risk Assessment to BS 8674:2025 View
- Level 5 · FireQual FireQual Level 5 Certificate in Advanced Fire Risk Assessment to BS 8674:2025 View
- Level 2 · Gatehouse Awards Ltd GA Level 2 Award in Food Safety for Manufacturing (RQF) View
- Level 3 · Highfield Qualifications Highfield Level 3 Award In Risk Assessment (RQF) View
- Level 4 · Highfield Qualifications Highfield Level 4 Award In Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) View
- Level 4 · Highfield Qualifications Highfield Level 4 Award in Food Safety Management for Manufacturing (RQF) View
- Level 3 · The Institution of Fire Engineers IFE Level 3 Certificate in Fire Science, Operations, Fire Safety and Management View
- Level 3 · The Institution of Fire Engineers IFE Level 3 Diploma in Fire Science and Fire Safety View
- Level 4 · The Institution of Fire Engineers IFE Level 4 Diploma in Fire Science and Fire Safety View
- Level 2 · NOCN NOCN Level 2 Award for Trade Union Health and Safety Representatives View
- Level 2 · NOCN NOCN Level 2 Award in Health and Safety within the Workplace View
- Level 3 · NOCN NOCN Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety View
- Level 6 · NOCN NOCN Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice View
- Level 6 · Occupational Awards Limited OAL Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management View
- Level 6 · OTHM Qualifications OTHM Level 6 Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety View
- Level 6 · OTHM Qualifications OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety View
- Level 7 · OTHM Qualifications OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management View
- Level 5 · ProQual Awarding Body ProQual Awarding Body Level 5 Occupational Qualification in Fire Risk Assessment View
- Level 6 · ProQual Awarding Body ProQual Awarding Body Level 6 Occupational Qualification in Health and Safety Management View
- Level 3 · ProQual Awarding Body ProQual Level 3 Award in Fire Risk Assessment Awareness View
- Level 3 · ProQual Awarding Body ProQual Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety View
- Level 3 · Qualifications Network QNUK Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace (RQF) View
- Level 5 · Qualifi Ltd Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety View
- Level 6 · Qualifi Ltd Qualifi Level 6 Diploma in Health and Safety Management View
- Level 6 · Qualifi Ltd Qualifi Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management View
- Level 7 · Qualifi Ltd Qualifi Level 7 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management View
- Level 7 · Qualifi Ltd Qualifi Level 7 International Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management View
- Level 4 · Royal Society for Public Health Royal Society for Public Health Level 4 Award in Food Safety Management View
- Level 3 · Royal Society for Public Health RSPH Level 3 Award in Food Safety for Food Manufacturing View
- Level 3 · SFJ Awards SFJ Awards Level 3 Certificate In Fire Safety (Fire Auditors) View
- Level 4 · SFJ Awards SFJ Awards Level 4 Certificate In Fire Safety (Fire Auditors) View
- Level 4 · SFJ Awards SFJ Awards Level 4 Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment View
- Level 4 · SFJ Awards SFJ Awards Level 4 Diploma In Fire Safety (Fire Inspectors) View
- Level 2 · Training Qualifications UK Ltd TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Health and Safety for Union Representatives (RQF) View
- Level 3 · Training Qualifications UK Ltd TQUK Level 3 Award in Risk Assessment (RQF) View
Qualification titles, levels and awarding bodies on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.