Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health Safety

Course Description

Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety aims to equip learners with an understanding of the key principles of health and safety policy including the internal, external and change factors that influence practice, and how these are operationalized in an organisation’s health and safety systems. Highlighting a range of factors that influence health and safety behaviours, performance and culture in the workplace and develop skills in learners so that they may be able to evaluate the health and safety culture and performance within an organisation. Learners will know about the concept of monitoring and also the monitoring techniques and will be able to perform audit of the workplace.

Learner will know about the ways so that they may perform Safety audits and Safety Review systems in the workplace. They will also get deep understanding of the Emergency Response and First aid Procedures and will be able to develop an Emergency Action Plan.

At the end of this program, the participants will be able to:

• Understand about the OHS and its main aspects
• Understand the Principles of health and safety policy
• Assess internal and external factors that influence health and safety practices.
• Understand the importance of health and safety
• Understand the importance of skills and resources for dealing different health and Safety practices in the workplace
• Understand the process of monitoring and auditing health and safety practices in the workplace.
• Evaluate health and safety system of the workplace.
• Understand the importance of health and safety culture
• Understand the human factors involved in a health and safety culture
• Understand the human failure relates to the safety and health culture
• Understand international frameworks for legislation, regulation and enforcement.
• Understand statutory and regulatory obligations for maintaining health and safety in an organisation.
• Understand the concept of Monitoring and Review process and measuring performance
• Understand the strategies and techniques of risk control.
• Understand the models of loss causation, analysis of loss data and the importance of incident investigation.
• Understand the concept and need and methods of Safety Review
• Understand the range of factors to consider to maintain a safe work environment.
• Understand safe storage, handling and management of hazardous substances, including biological agents.
• Understand safe management of work equipment and machinery.
• Understand the concept and Importance of Emergency Response
• Know about the Fire safety procedures