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Postgraduate Diploma
City Campus
Part Time
Sep 2027
16 Month
Learn to establish and maintain effective health and safety practices on this accredited course. On completion, you could choose to top-up your qualification to a master’s degree. As part of this course, you’ll: Understand health and safety as an integral part of any organisation Learn how to establish and maintain a safe working environment for everyone Develop your knowledge of how different organisations use varying levels of safety procedures and understand how to assess their impact on a company Investigate organisations in their entirety and gain a broad knowledge of other departments such as marketing, sales and human resources Explore how departments across a business are affected by health and safety procedures and processes Enhance your understanding of the technical and human aspects of health and safety and the causes of problems, whether machine malfunctions or human misjudgements.
Examine the ways in which the working relationship between operator, machine and environment can be adapted for efficiency and safety.
Study the requirements that are placed upon organisations to ensure legal compliance to enable management of health and safety risks.
Focus on the health aspects that may occur if good workplaces and practices are not developed, looking at both physical and mental health, and concepts of wellbeing
Extend your knowledge and skills from within a set environment to be able to apply them in other work settings or environments.
Critically examine the concept of risk as the product of probability and consequences, and develop your knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the analytical techniques and data requirements for quantification.
Develop your knowledge of the common types of hazards, the risk assessment process and skills in the completion of different types of risk assessment for these hazards.
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