OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

Description

The OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety has been developed to provide learners who have or are looking to develop into a senior role in an organisation for managing health and safety policy and practice.

Learners will gain the skills and knowledge to understand the legal and regulatory background to occupational health and safety policy, to be able to assess policies, as well as to recommend and implement policy changes.

Learners will develop knowledge and skills relevant to putting policy into practice, utilising management systems, resources, risk and incident management, leadership, management and skills development.

Individuals successfully completing the diploma qualification will be eligible to apply for the Certified level of membership CertIOSH.

For entry onto the OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety qualification, learners must possess:

Qualifications that fulfil this requirement include:

This distance learning course is flexible in its delivery and designed for part-time learning. Learners receive two core textbooks and access to our learning management system (LMS) where they can access range of learning resources to support them in their studies.

Learners are allocated a tutor to support them in their studies and assess their assignment submissions.

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the centre and externally verified by OTHM. The qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes.

To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria.