Is the course right for your?
The NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma is an advanced qualification for ambitious health and safety professionals. Itโs perfect for people who already have worked in health and safety want to develop their competence, including:
- ย Health and Safety Managers, Advisors, or Officers
- Compliance Managers
- Training Coordinators
- Quality, Risk, and Environmental workers
- Engineers
- Consultants
- Directors
Entry requirements
- The NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma requires a foundation level of health and safety. You should already have a confident understanding of key principles, including risk assessment, accident investigation, and health and safety regulation.
- We always recommend taking the NEBOSH General Certificate, or having least 5 years of experience working in a health and safety role.ย
The NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma recognition
The NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma is recognized as the gold standard in health and safety worldwide.
Below are just some of the professional membership organizations that recognize the NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma as a route to entry.
- Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH): Graduate (GradIOSH) and Chartered (CMIOSH)
- International Institute of Risk Safety Management (IIRSM): Member (MIIRSM)
- The Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board: Certified OHS Practitioner and Certified OHS Professional
- Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP): Canadian Registered Safety Technician (CRST) and Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP)
- The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP): Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
- New Zealand Institute of Safety Management (NZISM): Graduate Level
- South African Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (SAIOSH): Technical Membership (SAIOSH)
Why take this NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma?
- Make sure everyone gets home safely.
- Enhance your leadership skills
- Help your company grow
- Transform your career and get that new job
- Join a global health and safety community
Course Overview
Course Level:
The NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma is recognized as a level-6 vocational qualification on the UK Regulated Qualification Framework (RQF) and Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).
In the Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework (SCQF), itโs recognized as a level 10 with 48 credit points.
In South Africa, itโs recognized as a level 8 worth 120 credits by the South African Qualification Association (SAQA).
Course Structure:
ย Course Units | Learning hours | Assessment hours | ย Assessment types |
Unit 1: Workplace Health and Safety Principles | ย 135 | ย 40 | ย Assessment |
Unit 2: Controlling Workplace Health Issues | ย 105 | ย 20 | ย Case study |
Unit 3: Controlling Workplace Safety Issues | ย 95 | ย 20 | ย Case study |
Learning Outcome
By the end of the course, youโll be able to:
- Source, develop, evaluate and interpret relevant health and safety information (such as legislation, guidance, best practice, procedures) and communicate it effectively to those who need it.
- Promote a positive health and safety culture by influencing leaders and changing attitudes and behavior.
- Assess, develop and maintain individual and organizational health and safety competence.
- Understand risk management, including the techniques for identifying hazards, the different types of risk assessment, considerations when implementing sensible and proportionate additional control measures, and developing a risk management strategy.
- Develop and implement proactive and reactive health and safety monitoring systems and carry out reviews and auditing of such systems.
- Continually develop your professional skills and ethics to actively influence improvements in health and safety by providing persuasive arguments to workers at all levels.
- Develop a health and safety policy strategy within your organization (including proactive safety, Corporate Social Responsibility and the change management process).
- Contribute to health and safety legal actions.
- Manage contractors and supply chains to ensure compliance with health and safety standards.
- Advise the organization on a range of common workplace health issues/ hazards, including how these can be assessed and controlled and the legal duties associated with these issues/ hazards.
- Advise the organization on a range of common workplace safety issues/ hazards, including how these can be assessed and controlled and the legal duties associated with these issues/ hazards.
Detailed Course Syllabus
1.1 Health and safety regulations
1.2 Prosecutions
1.3 Enforcement
1.4 Civil law
1.5 Damages and liabilities
1.6 Occupiers liability
1.7 Lawful discrimination
1.8 Insurers
2.1 Organizational structures
2.2 Leadership
2.3 Consultation
2.4 Health and safety cultures
2.5 Traditional and proactive safety management
2.6 Risk perception
2.7 Human failures and factors
3.1 Competence, training, information and supervision
3.2 High reliability organizations
4.1 Hazard identification and techniques
4.2 Managing health and safety risks
4.3 Risk management
5.1 Loss causation and quantitative analysis of data
5.2 Measuring and monitoring
6.1 Professional skills
7.1 Societal factors
7.2 Corporate social responsibility
7.3 Organization changes
8.1 Civil proceedings
8.2 Coroners inquest
8.3 Criminal proceedings
8.4 Ethical issues
9.1 Contractors supply chains
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10.1 Occupational health and safety services
10.2 Mental ill health, wellbeing, workplace violence, lone working
10.3 Health surveillance
10.4 Hazardous substances
10.5 Health risks from hazardous substances
10.6 Epidemiology and toxicology
10.7 Asbestos
10.8 Ventilation and PPE
10.9 Hazardous substance monitoring
10.10 Biological agents
10.11 Noise
10.12 Vibration
10.13 Radiation
10.14 Musculoskeletal issues and manual handling
10.15 Workplace temperatures and welfare arrangements
11.1 Safe working environment
11.2 Confined spaces
11.3 Fire and explosion
11.4 Fire
11.5 Dangerous substances
11.6 Work equipment and machinery maintenance
11.7 Work equipment
11.8 Machinery
11.9 Mobile work equipment and lifting equipment
11.10 Electricity
11.11 Construction, work at height, demolition, excavation
11.12 Workplace transport, work related driving
Assessments
Format of ID1 Assessment: Unit DI1 is an assignment split over two papers. Both papers must be submitted at the same time.
- Paper 1: Simulation questions
- Paper 2: Workplace activities, reflective tasks and a research project
NEBOSH recommends you spend around 40 hours on your DI1 assignment. You will have 4 weeks to complete your assignment and submit it electronically.
Format of DI2 & DI3 Assessments: These units are assessed with a case study and scenario based questions. NEBOSH recommends you spend around 20 hours on each assessment paper. You will have 2 weeks to complete each assessment and submit it electronically.
ย Exam dates
| ย | Assessment Start Date | Submission Deadline | Registration Deadline |
| DI3 | 15 January 2025 | 29 January 2025 | 06 December 2024 |
| DI1 | 12 March 2025 | 09 April 2025 | 05 February 2025 |
| DI2 | 14 May 2025 | 29 May 2025 | 04 April 2025 |
| DI3 | 16 July 2025 | 30 July 2025 | 11 June 2025 |
| DI1 | 17 September 2025 | 15 October 2025 | 12 August 2025 |
| DI2 | 12 November 2025 | 26 November 2025 | 08 October 2025 |
Pass marks
ย You must achieve a pass in all three units to achieve your full NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma. Once youโve passed all units, your marks will be added together and youโll be awarded your final qualification grade.
- Pass: 150-195 marks
- Credits: 196-255 marks
- Distinction: 256+ marks
Course fee: Call/Zalo: 0966.449.449
Email: training@safety.edu.vn
Call/Zalo: 0966.449.449
