Highfield Level 4 International Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace

The objective of the qualification is to support a role in the workplace.
Learners gaining this qualification will know that supervisors and managers have legal and moral obligations to ensure health and safety within a business and that this includes obligations to employees, contractors, visitors and suppliers. Its subject areas are regarded by the health and safety executive as being important to developing safe working procedures in the workplace.

Who is this qualification for?

The qualification is for existing supervisors and managers who have direct responsibility for health and safety in their workplace. It is also suitable for learners who will progress to become a supervisor or manager with responsibility for health and safety.

Topics covered

These include duties and responsibilities, health and safety policies, developing and implementing risk assessments and safe systems of work and incident investigation.

Assessment method

This qualification is assessed in two parts:

Part 1: Learners are expected to undertake the following activities:

undertake a risk assessment
construct a safe system of work

Part 2:This is assessed by a multiple-choice examination, containing 60 questions. The exam must be completed in 2 hours. Successful learners will have to demonstrate knowledge across the unit content and correctly answer 36 questions or more to achieve a pass, 42 questions to achieve a merit and 48 questions to achieve a distinction.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the duties and responsibilities of employers, employees and others in relation to health and safety at work
Understand the process by which health and safety is managed in an organisation
Understand procedures for developing and implementing risk assessment
Understand procedures for developing and implementing safe systems of work
Know how to review health and safety across an organisation
Understand international legislation

Highfield Level 4 International Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace

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