Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

This qualification comprises 10 units, each with a focused learning outcome and practical application:

1. Principles of Health and Safety Management
   Core management principles, strategic planning for safety, governance, policy development, and integration with organisational objectives.

2. Health and Safety Risk Assessment
   Advanced methods for hazard identification, quantitative and qualitative risk evaluation, risk prioritisation, and decision-making for control measures.

3. Control of Workplace Hazards
   Techniques for controlling physical, chemical, biological, electrical, mechanical, and ergonomic hazards, including hierarchy of control application.

4. Health and Safety Legislation
   In-depth study of national and international legal frameworks, duties of duty-holders, compliance strategies, and implications of non-compliance.

5. Workplace Health and Safety Culture
   Strategies to assess, develop, and sustain a positive safety culture, leadership influence, behavioural safety, and employee engagement.

6. Incident Investigation and Analysis
   Structured approaches to incident investigation, root cause analysis, data collection, incident reporting, and developing corrective and preventive actions.

7. Fire Safety Management
   Fire risk assessment, fire prevention strategies, detection and alarm systems, evacuation planning, and regulatory compliance for fire safety.

8. Environmental Protection in the Workplace
   Environmental risk identification, pollution prevention, waste management, sustainability practices, and aligning environmental controls with safety objectives.

9. Emergency Preparedness and Response
   Designing and testing emergency plans, command and control arrangements, business continuity considerations, drills and scenario-based evaluation.

10. Occupational Health and Wellbeing
    Management of occupational ill-health risks, health surveillance, wellbeing programmes, psychosocial risk controls, and promoting workforce resilience.