The NVQ 3 in occupational health and safety provides a comprehensive awareness of health and safety and is at the same level as the NEBOSH National General Certificate.

It includes risk assessments, developing procedures to safely control operations and to monitor them, promoting safe culture and making sure your own actions reduce risks to health and / or safety. There are also two optional topic areas and details of all the unit headings are shown below. There are a total of 7 units to this award.

A key factor is ensuring that you develop the necessary knowledge and skills and BCS College will ensure that your course is planned to integrate the essential training and more information on how the course progresses to achieve this goal is given below.

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5 Mandatory Units
The Unit titles are as follows:

HSS1 = Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety

HSS2 = Develop Procedures to Safely Control Work Operations

HSS3 = Monitor Procedures to Safely Control Work Operations

HSS4 = Promote a Healthy and Safe Culture within the Workplace

HSS6 = Conduct an Assessment of a Workplace.






Plus 2 Optional Units
HSS5 = Investigate and Evaluate Incidents and Complaints in the Workplace

HSS7 = Make sure your own Actions aim to Protect the Environment

HSS8 = Review Health& Safety Procedure in Workplaces

HSS9 = Supervise the Health, Safety and Welfare of a Learner in the Workplace.

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General guidance (applies to NVQ 3, 4 and 5)

Individual attention

Each person is dealt with as an individual case as, indeed, each person's situation, experience and previous training will vary. We will provide the guidance and support to identify your strengths and achievement to take advantage of achieved skills and work experience to contribute towards these credible NVQ awards accredited by City & Guilds.

Stage 1

At the initial contact you will have a discussion on the phone with an Examinations Officer which also involves a pre-evaluation process. Following this the counselling takes place and this is made up of a formal evaluation and review. You will then come and see one of our Assessors for about 1 to 2 hours for the final part to be completed. The counselling enables the course learning requirements to be tailored to your individual needs. This takes into account your strengths and weaknesses and looks at all the qualifications and training you have submitted as well as your experience and skills achieved.

This is to ensure that you get the highest quality of developed programme to meet your individual needs which is underpinned and supported by a caring organisation at BCS College where you can phone an Assessor any weekday at any time during opening hours, e mail any time and this is in addition to your formal contact sessions.

We will explain the process to you at this first session and you can rest assured that we will do all we can to ensure you focus on learning and development while we undertake the bureaucracy and submissions etc.

Even the development of the portfolio is easy and user friendly with our unique high quality system whether hard copy (stored securely) or our specially developed secure electronic system (the choice is yours). All our systems meet our very stringent security and confidential requirements which are audited every 3 months for compliance and also meet the government Home Office requirements.

Following meeting the Assessor you will then meet with the Course Administrator who will agree contact dates with your Assessor and inform you of the recommendations of the Course Co-ordinator for the intervals of your sessions.

You will have the option of meeting an Assessor at one of our District Centre’s around the country, the main site in Nottingham or on a phone / correspondence basis. We are also able to offer Assessor meetings at your place of work.

We will provide you with two Assessors to ensure that our quality systems are satisfied but most of all to ensure your smooth continuity of development should one be ill or on holiday. In any event we have a team of Assessors available.

An Examinations Officer will monitor your progress throughout to check you are on the planned target and implement assistance where this is needed.

Comprehensive information will be sent to you after this first session which is tailored to your training needs. This will include an action plan providing the attendance dates etc and identifying the Assessor(s) and Internal Verifier. There may also be a domain knowledge development plan. Little or no training is required for well experienced candidates.

Stage 2

Once you have completed Stage 1 you are on your way to obtaining a highly prestigious award accredited by City & Guilds and with an organisation with an equally excellent reputation which has grown and developed on the basis of so many highly satisfied customers and their recommendations. BCS College works hard to provide a service we can be proud of and to ensure that you have every opportunity to develop and learn.

If you have a problem then we step in and provide help whenever your job has changed, your location has changed, you are moving overseas, you have a need to put the course on hold for a while owing to personal problems, redundancy, illness, pregnancy etc and we have provided solutions to overcome them all in the past. There are no boundaries to learning at BCS College and we have delivered NVQ courses to candidates in far and distant parts of the world including Australia, Africa, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Gibraltar, Libya, Offshore Oil Rigs, to name just a few.

Attendance

A considerable advantage with this process is a significant reduction in the amount of attendance required to achieve the qualification as this is being achieved from the evidence of your experience. Each Assessor meeting is for a period of about 3 hours for a total of four sessions for the NVQ 3 and five for the NVQ 4 and NVQ 5 under normal conditions. These sessions may be about every one or two months or more but the interval is assessed and then agreed with you.

Flexibility

The action plan is agreed mutually with the you and can be varied by agreement so dates can be changed, which is typical for a busy professional in safety and is essential for a course of this kind.. However, we will set up a clear and structured programme so you can see exactly when you start, complete and graduate.

The format has proved to be so successful that numerous large national companies have sent their most senior safety staff on this programme as well as numerous Local Authorities, MOD, Foreign Office, Home Office, many large public companies etc. It is ideal country wide and even overseas. There is also a plan which reduces the need for travel with some assessing contacts being by phone and correspondence.

About BCS College and the NVQ

BCS College celebrated 30 years of service to industry in 2009 and have been delivering NVQ courses since they were first introduced into this country. BCS College were also one of the first organisations in the country to be accredited by City & Guilds to deliver the Occupational Health & Safety courses at Levels 3 & 4. Indeed, we were the first to be accredited with the new NVQ Level 5 scheme which came out on the 2nd January 2003 and are accredited for all three (NVQ 3, 4 and 5) new updated schemes which started on the 1st January 2008.

BCS College were also awarded self certification status by City & Guilds as a result of our high standards and they continue to audit us every year and we continue to maintain the status.

We have developed a modular approach to training as well as distance achievement arrangements. This closes the barrier of distance and makes achievement possible with few attendances being necessary. In addition, you may be interested to know that the NVQ 4 has long been accepted as the educational normal entry requirement for membership of IOSH, providing graduate IOSH status on completion of the entry requirements. Following this with suitable Initial Professional Development (I.P.D.) you can apply to become Chartered. BCS College also provide a Post Graduate qualification linked to the NVQ 5 which also provides the basis for all the C.P.D. points towards the I.P.D. to apply for Charter status with I.O.S.H.

You will find a team of friendly staff with a high level of moral only too pleased to help you to achieve your goals and aspirations. The team of Chartered Assessors are hand picked and carefully trained and mentored to be able to deliver the standards expected at BCS College.


Discount code 20

Course times & dates: Arranged to suit individual needs.