Health & Safety (Level 3) - A Home Study, Distance Learning Course

COURSE OVERVIEW

A distance learning course is the ideal way to gain a Health & Safety diploma. Whether you're looking to go on to further education, improve your job prospects or expand your knowledge, distance learning Health & Safety is a flexible and convenient course, which allows you to comprehensively prepare for a Health & Safety exam or career through home study. What's more, because the distance learning Level 3 Health & Safety course is a fully comprehensive course, no prior knowledge is required.

What is Health and Safety?

You will find that the two terms are put together as a matter of course in most people’s minds but it is important to remember that they are in fact two separate concepts:

Health – The protection of the bodies and minds of people from illness resulting from the materials, processes or procedures in the workplace.

Safety – The protection of people from physical injury.

The borderline between health and safety is ill defined and the two words are often used together to indicate concern for the physical and mental well being of the individual at the place of work.

Course Key Topics

The Level 3 in Health & Safety is divided into following comprehensive modules.

• The Responsibilities of Employers and Employees
• Policies
• Hazards and Risks
• Using Risk Assessment in Appropriate Formats
• Control and Monitoring
• Movement – Hazards and Control
• Manual Handling
• Work Equipment
• Electrical Hazards
• Fire Hazards
• Chemical and Biological Hazards
• Incident and Accident Reporting and Investigation

We have deliberately designed the course to make it as interactive as possible with lots of self-assessment exercises for you to carry out so that you can gauge how much you have learned. These should not be sent to your tutor, however; the tutor will only want to see the five assignments that you will complete at the end of each unit (the Tutor Marked Assignments or TMAs).

Home Study Tutor Support

You will be provided with comprehensive materials designed to provide you with everything required to complete your Health & Safety course. You will have your own personal tutor helping you with your course work and with any questions you may have. Plus you can contact our Student Advisors by email or phone for all the practical advice you may need – so we really are with you 100%.

What's more, you'll have access to the online student portal, where you can interact with other students, browse our resource library and manage your account.

Course Assessments

The Level 3 in Health & Safety course is marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor following NCFE guidelines. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.

We send the full course out, you then read through the course in your own time and complete the assignments which you send to your tutor for marking. There is no word count for these assignments. However, one sentence answers will be rejected and you will have to re-submit it for marking.

Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by the national awarding organisation NCFE, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the programme.

Course Duration

We recommend you spend approximately 100 hours of your time studying for the Health & Safety course. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 2 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 4 hours a week you could complete it in six months.

Get started today, and you can earn your Level 3 Award in Health & Safety in as little as six months, or take up to a year, if you prefer – the choice is yours.