Level 3 Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health

The qualification will be assessed on assignments and mainly a portfolio of evidence captured in digital media formats. A qualified assessor will view online evidence that you upload to your portfolio and question you about it and work you carry out in your workplace.  Your knowledge and understanding as well as your actual performance will be assessed against the national standard.  Your assessor will ‘sign-off,’ electronically, individual units within the Level 3 when you have reached the required standard.  A variety of digital media can be used to vary and make easy the way you present evidence demonstrating your competence fully.

The qualification is delivered using our online paper free system.  You will receive logging in details to the electronic system once you have satisfied the assessor that you really have the scope within your current role to be able to gather the type and quality of evidence that is required.  Therefore, you will be gathering evidence that demonstrates you are competent in the areas directed by the standard and upload it to the relevant parts of the portfolio.

The City & Guilds Level 3 is split into units which are in turn split into criteria.  You decide which criteria your evidence satisfies and explain why.  The assessor checks it and determines your competency in relation to those criteria.  Units are progressively satisfied and the system allows “Sign Off”.

Upon successful completion of the City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety Practice you may be able to apply for the status of Technician Member of IOSH and use the letters (Tech IOSH), it also provides a significant grounding and insight to further your career in Occupational Safety & Health.  You will also have the necessary underpinning knowledge enabling progression to City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety practice which could lead to CMIOSH, and you will have gained valuable, practical on the job skills to enhance future academic qualifications.

SETA allows individuals to undertake a single unit from the Level 3 in Occupational Health and Safety. This unit is suitable for people who are required to review health and safety conditions in workplaces other than their own, for instance teachers that may be required to assess health and safety conditions for student placements or trips. This single unit could be a more appropriate and cost-effective way of training and assessing this group of individuals.

Qualification: A single unit from the L3 in Occupational safety and health

Part 1: Preparing to carry out a review of the health and safety procedures of a workplace to meet established procedures.

Part 2: carry out a review to check if mandatory health, safety and welfare requirements are being implemented, then reporting and recording the findings of the review in accordance with agreed procedures.

The qualification is assessed and verified in the normal NVQ manner with the outcome being a portfolio of evidence to prove competence.