Level 5 Diploma in Occupation Health and Safety Practice
If you are looking to develop your skills and knowledge in managing health and safety for the workplace, and you regularly take part in site inspections, risk assessments and training as part of your current job role, as well as developing and applying health and safety procedures in your organisation, this is the ideal level for you.
Completion of the Level 5 Certificate will allow you to join IOSH as a Technical Member, providing you have 1 years’ relevant experience. You can later opt to use this level 5 as a stepping stone to work on our Level 6 at a reduced price and SHE Knows will not require you to duplicate work, so reducing the amount of evidence you need to submit in your Level 6. We call this using RPL. Please do ask about using RPL from a NEBOSH Certificate or an NVQ level 3.
What does this course cover?
This qualification is made up of nine mandatory units and you will also have the option to take additional, elective units such as professional development and ethics in H&S management to help expand your repertoire.
Course Units
- Develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information
- Promote a positive health and safety culture
- Develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters
- Control health and safety risks
- Develop and implement proactive monitoring systems for health and safety
- Develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safety
- Develop and implement health and safety emergency response systems and procedures
- Develop and implement health and safety review systems
- Develop and implement a health and safety audit
- Behavioural safety in the workplace
- Develop and implement the health and safety policy
Optional Units
- Influence improvements in health and safety practice
- Develop, implement and review the organisations health and safety strategy
- Contribute to health and safety legal actions
- Manage contractors to ensure compliance with health and safety
- Develop and implement the health and safety induction process
- Professional development and ethics in health and safety management
SHE Knows delivery methods for this qualification – we are different, not just your average training provider.
At SHE Knows, we aim to concentrate on using work-based evidence for your level 5 and not assignments or written Q&A; however, City & Guilds requires some reporting to management in a written format – after an accident or none compliance, in order to produce “well rounded” safety practitioners. The Assessors at SHE Knows are human assessors, not a computer platform or team of admin staff. We are all here to support you and chase and encourage you until you compete.
Our costs for the NVQ 5 Diploma covers all your assessment, registration and certification costs so that you concentrate on providing work based evidence; this means there is no hidden cost to you or your employer. No time spent visiting the assessor in their office or mileage payments etc. For best practice we will visit you at your workplace to undertake your induction and a workplace observation supported by a professional discussion tailored to the NVQ knowledge requirements. Your Assessors will continue to support you from our office, with you submitting your work electronically (email or dropbox) using tablets or even off your phone. Let me know if you wish more supported visits as we can quote you for this as well.
As we would need to observe you in at least one of the workplace activities listed below, your assessor can discuss this on first contact with you, but just to let you know that we prefer to opt for a site inspection and risk assessment review as it tends to be a normal, low pressure work activity!
- Risk assessing
- Workplace inspections
- Investigations
- Auditing
Time scales for completion of the NVQ level 5 does vary. Some practitioners with several years of experience in H&S, who have a wealth of documentation to draw on, have completed the NVQ in 4 to 6 months. Others, newer to the field, have to take to time develop certain systems or job roles, so then this could take up to 2 years to compete the qualification. We just have to make sure you are not submitting out of date evidence due to any changes in legislation, best practice or old documents that have since been reviewed.
You can start at any time; once registration has been completed a work pack will be issued. On your initial contact/induction with your assessor they will explain evidence gathering and how to understand our workbook and filing systems. Our workplace assessment visits are our best practice solution for NVQ delivery; your assessor will be able to cover quite a bit of the knowledge evidence requirements through a professional discussion, so do make time for them, as it cuts the amount of future work you will have to do!
If you require a classroom taught session at your premises, or if you have any other questions, please contact us here.
You can view or download an example of our workbook for this course here.
Want to ask a question? Contact us to speak to an assessor before you register.
Because the NVQ is about you, we are flexible about your sign up date and scheduling your induction. This will be organised by your assessor after your registration.
For more information on course dates please look at the course calendar.
