Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety Practice

The ProQual NVQ Level 6 is on a par with the NEBOSH National Diploma and University Degree courses. IOSH holds both qualifications at an entrance Level for CertIOSH (formerly known as Grad.IOSH) membership and in holding this safety qualification you will be able to enrol on IOSH’s Initial Professional Development (IPD) program. Once your cycle of IPD has been undertaken, you will be able to commence your application for Chartered Membership status (CMIOSH).

NVQs have changed over the years and the Level 6 requires you to undertake some theory questions and reflection on your work practices in order to fulfil the IOSH membership application process. Your work on this will contribute to your demonstration of knowledge during the IOSH membership application and interview process.

What does this course cover?

Generally the Level 6 Diploma covers:

✓ Promoting a positive health & safety culture 
✓ H&S policy and effective communications for H&S information 
✓ Individual and organisational competence in health & safety matters
✓ Identifying, assessing and controlling health & safety risks
✓ Proactive and reactive monitoring systems 
✓ Emergency response systems and procedures 
✓ Health & safety review systems 
✓ Improvements to influence health & safety practice 

SHE Knows delivery methods for this qualification – we are different, not just your average training provider.

At SHE Knows we aim to concentrate on assessing work-based evidence without duplication of submission. This way your time on your NVQ is spent demonstrating your competence and not on interpreting the NVQ standards.

Our cost for the ProQual Level 6 diploma covers all your assessment, registration and certification costs so that you concentrate on providing work-based evidence.  You have 2 years to complete your NVQ.

Your Assessors will support you from our office, with you submitting your work electronically; this can be via email, Google Drive, WeTransfer or Dropbox – we have even assessed evidence submitted via WhatsApp.

Time scales for completion – this 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 the to time develop certain systems or job roles, so then this could take up to 2 years to complete the qualification. We have to ensure that you are not submitting out of date evidence due to any changes in legislation, best practice or old documents that have since been reviewed, this is why we mention the 2 year goalpost.

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.

We ask you to have the support and access to a H&S mentor in the workplace who can observe you (to validate your evidence) in at least one of the workplace activities listed below:
✓ Risk control – observations & risk assessment
✓ Workplace inspections & audits
✓ Emergency simulations
✓ Presentations aiming to improve safety culture

If you want to be supported with a workplace assessment visits and mentoring, then a ProQual registered assessor will visit you at work (we’ll plan the sites and times with you) and they can then observe you and assist with portfolio building as you require. 

SHE Knows would like to remind you that our ProQual approved Assessors are human assessors, not a computer platform or team of admin staff. The SHE Knows team will support you if you call or email with a query or question.

Not sure whether to choose a City and Guilds or ProQual course?  You can contact us to discuss the differences and what would best suit your requirements, or view our comparison table.

Want to ask a question? Contact us to speak to an assessor before you register.

For more information on course dates please look at the course calendar.