Level 6 Diploma in Health and Safety Management

Six mandatory units; no optional units. Titles as published by Qualifi.² Qualifi's specification gives the credit for each unit; the published total is shown in the particulars.

Health and Safety Management Principles and Policy and Health and Safety Law, Regulation and Influence belong together at the start, because a safety manager must know both what good practice looks like and what the law compels. Risk and Incident Management and Maintaining a Safe Workplace Environment form the technical core. Promoting a Positive Health and Safety Culture makes sense fifth, once learners can see how systems and behaviour interact, and Development of the Health and Safety Practitioner closes as a reflective unit on the learner's own professional growth. The delivered order is LSPM's; confirm it before enrolling.

Qualifi sets the entry criteria; LSPM applies them. As published:²

• Level 5 qualification or:
• appropriate work experience in the business sector and demonstrate ambition with clear career goals.

Qualifi's wording admits holders of a Level 5 qualification, in any field, on the certificate, and admits others on 'appropriate work experience in the business sector' with demonstrated ambition and clear career goals. For this diploma LSPM reads appropriate experience as responsibility that has included safety, whether as a designated role or as part of a wider management job: a site manager who owns the risk assessments, an HR manager who runs the safety committee, a facilities lead, a supervisor who has led incident investigations. A short written statement of goals and a conversation with LSPM's admissions team are how it is assessed. A prior safety certificate is welcome but is not required by Qualifi for this award.

If you are unsure which route applies to you, enquire and say so; working that out is what the advice call is for.

Assignments are set by LSPM against Qualifi's assessment criteria. The briefs are organisational in scale: a policy and management-system review for a real employer, a risk and incident management framework with a worked investigation, a culture assessment and improvement plan, a workplace environment audit, a legal compliance analysis with recommendations on influencing senior management, and a professional development portfolio for the final unit. Learners in designated safety roles write about their own function; others write about the organisation they manage or a partner organisation by agreement with LSPM.

The general arrangements for marking, moderation, feedback and resubmission are described on the how LSPM teaches page.

Time, honestly estimated

Qualifi does not publish a Total Qualification Time for this award; the figures below use the 120-credit convention of ten hours per credit as a planning guide, not a promise.

Top-up destinations are bachelor's degrees in occupational safety and health, safety and environmental management, or risk management, entered at the final year with advanced standing; the 120 Level 6 credits and the direct subject match make this a strong case at universities that recognise Qualifi awards. Business degrees with a risk or operations emphasis are a secondary destination.

Professionally, IOSH membership grades are decided by IOSH against its current accreditation list and experience requirements. This page does not restate any recognition because it can change; applicants for whom a membership grade is the object should confirm with IOSH, quoting the Ofqual number, before enrolling. Employers in most sectors treat a Level 6 safety diploma as the practitioner and manager threshold.

The mechanics of advanced standing, and the questions admissions tutors ask, are on the top-up degrees page.⁴ Slot: universities holding a current progression agreement for this award, verified before publication.

Not everyone wants the bachelor's. The other direction from here is a Level 7 diploma, at master's level, described on the companion site for Level 7 diplomas.