Level 6 nvq diploma IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY PRACTICE

Occupational Health and Safety practitioners and, specifically, Health and Safety (H&S) Officers are vital to the well-being of workers and the success of a project. Working in naturally dangerous and high-risk environments, especially without process or procedure in place, the H&S Officer must have the multi-discipline knowledge, skills and expertise to predict, manage and therefore prevent or drastically reduce risk to everyone on site, ensuring the build stays on track. Duties can range from providing the correct PPE on site to carrying out complex risk assessments and their subsequent reports. Ultimately, health and safety responsibilities and action all parties take to comply with legislation are managed and implemented by Health and Safety Officers.  

This Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice qualification enables learners to demonstrate and recognise skills, knowledge and understanding and demonstrate competence in a real workplace environment. They are designed for professionals working in occupational health and safety practitioner positions in the construction sector to develop and prove knowledge and competency.

Totally Training assess Learners against performance and knowledge statements from the recommended qualification structure. While producing a portfolio of evidence, learners will show how they have met each unit's performance and knowledge criteria required within the qualification, as directed by their Assessor.

To complete this qualification, Learners must successfully achieve all eight mandatory units and two optional units. 

Learners taking this Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice will cover knowledge, skills, and practices to develop their skills and knowledge of health and safety within the workplace.

The course content includes:

Mandatory Units - must achieve all eight:

• Promote a positive health and safety culture 
• Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information
• Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters 
• Control health and safety risks
• Develop, implement and review proactive monitoring systems for health and safety 
• Develop, implement and review reactive monitoring systems for health and safety 
• Develop and implement health and safety review systems
• Develop, implement and monitor behavioural safety in the workplace 

Optional Units - must achieve two of the following:

• Manage contractors to ensure compliance with health and safety 
• Develop and implement health and safety induction processes
• Influence and keep pace with improvements in health and safety practice 
• Develop and implement the health and safety policy
• Develop and implement health and safety emergency response systems and procedures

Upon successfully completing this qualification, learners will have the skills, knowledge, understanding, and proven competence to take responsibility for occupational health and safety within an organisation and progress to more specialist roles such as occupational health and safety inspection. 

As a result of completing the Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice, delegates can apply for the CSCS Manager Black Card. Learners who have an in-date CITB Managers and Professionals Health, Safety and Environmental Test can apply for the CSCS Manager Black Card.

Any person or employee responsible for developing, implementing and reviewing occupational health and safety in their role at work who needs to obtain a CSCS Manager Black card and a nationally recognised qualification.

We advise between 8 and 16 months from induction to complete most Level 6 NVQs. The duration of this time depends on the learner's experience, circumstances, and work.

At Totally Training, quality and support to our learners is priority. Totally Training provide a dedicated service to Our Clients.

Totally Training are a leading provider of health, safety, environmental and technical theory and practical training and assessment services, covering a wide range of industry sectors, working with 100s of organisations to provide quality written and delivered courses. 

Totally Training allocate a dedicated competent Assessor to each Learner, whose role is to communicate with and support learners throughout their NVQ journey. They do this through a mixture of face-to-face and online meetings. 

Totally Training Assessors are fully qualified and occupationally experienced and competent from industry-specific backgrounds to deliver Our qualifications, traveling nationwide to provide necessary support at all times.

The Totally Training Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice qualification is designed for Learners in the workplace environment. Before enrolling on the course, Learners must ensure they can provide the necessary evidence within their role to achieve All performance requirements stated in the qualification standards. 

Once the Learner has completed their NVQ and obtained their CSCS Manager Black Card, their CSCS card is valid for Five Years. It can be renewed with an in-date CITB Managers and Professionals Health and Safety Test, renewing it for another Five Years.

To learn more about this qualification, to book or for any queries, please contact a member of the team by phone at 07763 854 325 or email training@totally.training