New Zealand Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety Management (Level 6)

Get into Health and Safety Management with the New Zealand Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety Management. Develop essential skills needed to manage and develop health and safety protocols.


 

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Campus
SIT Online
Qualification
Diploma
Level
6
Credits
120
Duration

One year full-time

Up to four years part-time

Intakes are 17 weeks long

Dates
TBC
Fees
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Tuition Fees

Zero tuition fees

Direct Material Costs

$8.00 per credit (incl. GST)

International Fees

$100 per credit (incl. GST). See International.

Course Outline

Get into Health and Safety Management with the New Zealand Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety Management. Develop essential skills needed to manage and develop health and safety protocols.

This diploma will advance your personal and professional skills necessary to be successful in demanding and evolving business environments that are recognised locally, nationally and internationally.

You will learn:

  • Risk management
  • Health and Safety in Employment
  • Occupational health and safety strategies and organisational systems
  • Occupational health and safety training strategies and evaluation
  • Occupational health and safety management practice leadership
  • Occupational health and safety strategic planning and performance measurement
  • Occupational health and safety intervention programme design and evaluation
  • Workplace Health and Safety Resilience in Dynamic and Disrupted Contexts 
Course Content

MGT605 Risk Management (Level 6) 15 credits

This course provides learners with the knowledge and skills to apply risk management principles in New Zealand workplaces, in alignment with relevant legislative frameworks, best practice and organisational risk tolerance and profile.  Learners will develop the capability to identify, evaluate, prioritise and manage health and safety risks and hazards, and to recommend mitigation strategies.

Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Apply principles and best practice for risk assessment, prioritisation and control to identify, evaluate and manage health and safety hazards and risks in an organisation.
  • Develop, justify and communicate risk mitigation strategies that align to a New Zealand organisation's risk profile, tolerance and relevant legislative frameworks and regulatory requirements.  
  • Critically evaluate the effectiveness of risk control measures within an organisation's risk management framework and recommend improvements based on best practice, quality and performance criteria.  

MGT611 Health and Safety in Employment (Level 6) 15 credits

This course provides learners with foundational knowledge of workplace health and safety and responsibilities in workplace contexts.  It focuses on developing the skills to source, analyse and communicate health, safety and wellbeing information, apply relevant legislation, and evaluate strategies that reduce the incident and severity of work-related injury and illness in New Zealand workplaces.

Upon the successful completion of this course, ākonga will be able to:

  • Identify and analyse sources of internal and external workplace health, safety, and wellbeing information, including evaluating data source quality and reliability.
  • Present relevant health and safety data to assist in strategic planning and performance measurement.
  • Apply strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of work-related injury and illness within a specific organisation.
  • Develop and apply engagement strategies to communicate health, safety and wellbeing information to stakeholders (internal and external) at all levels of a specific organisation.

MGT613 Occupational Health and Safety Strategies and Organisational Systems (Level 6) 15 credits

This course provides learners with an overview of both health and safety systems and strategies, including policies and processes and best practice in quality management, to enable the proactive management of risk and hazards for both occupational health and occupational safety.

Upon the successful completion of this course, ākonga will be able to:

  • Examine the purpose of integrated occupational health and safety systems and strategies.
  • Critically evaluate occupational health and occupational safety systems and strategies within an organisation for quality, functionality and effectiveness.
  • Lead and support the development and implementation of integrated health and safety systems and strategies to proactively manage risks and hazards in a workplace context.  
  • Monitor and evaluate the success of an integrated health and safety system and strategy in a workplace context.

MGT614 Occupational Health and Occupational Safety Training Strategies and Evaluation (Level 6) 15 credits

This course provides learners with the knowledge and skills to critically evaluate the design, implementation and impact of organisational health and safety training programmes.  Learners will explore local and global training approaches, assess their effectiveness in improving workforce capability and safety in a workplace context, and develop the capability to influence and support health and safety training practices across all levels of an organisation.

Upon the successful completion of this course, ākonga will be able to:

  • Compare and contrast the design, function, purpose and quality of occupational health and safety training programmes, both local and global.
  • Develop evaluation criteria for and critically evaluate the quality and effectiveness of occupational health and safety training programmes on workplace and worker health, safety and performance in a New Zealand organisation.
  • Lead and support key influencers in the design, implementation, review and evaluation of health and safety training programmes at all levels of an organisation.

MGT615 Occupational Health and Safety Management Practice Leadership (Level 6) 15 credits

This course provides learners with the leadership skills and capabilities required to influence, support and model best practice in occupational health and safety.  Leaners will explore leadership approaches that strengthen health and safety performance, address individual and organisational improvement, and foster inclusive and protective health and safety cultures.

Upon the successful completion of this course, ākonga will be able to:

  • Analyse occupational health and safety leadership best practice, inclusive of safety culture and quality leadership, for a specific organisation.
  • Identify key factors in health and safety performance management and critically examine strategies to review and lead improvement in individual and organisational performance.
  • Lead and support the application of leadership concepts, behaviours and practices that consider diversity, inclusion and the development of a positive and protective workplace health and safety culture.

MGT616 Occupational Health and Safety Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement (Level 6) 15 credits

This course develops the learner's capability to collect, analyse, interpret and apply health and safety data to inform strategic planning, risk management, quality improvement, and performance measurement in occupational health and safety contexts.

Upon the successful completion of this course, ākonga will be able to:

  • Analyse the principles of data collection and management in the context of occupational health and safety strategic planning and performance measurement.
  • Calculate, apply and evaluate data from a range of sources to lead and support in strategic planning, risk management, quality management and performance measurement contexts.
  • Design and develop strategic planning and performance measurement options for a given situation and make recommendations.
  • Analyse and present occupational health and safety data analyses and evaluations to assist decision-making in a given scenario.

MGT617 Occupational Health and Safety Intervention Programme Design and Evaluation (Level 6) 15 credits

This course develops the learner's capability to design, implement and evaluate occupational health and safety intervention programmes.  Learners will identify and analyse information sources, assess incident and risk data, and apply evidence-based strategies to reduce workplace injuries, illnesses and near-misses through effective programme planning, reporting and quality improvement.

Upon the successful completion of this course, ākonga will be able to:

  • Compare and contrast key types and sources of occupational health and occupational safety information used in the evaluation of intervention programme design and quality. 
  • Critically analyse occupational health and occupational safety information and tools used to identify accidents, incidents, injury, near-misses and future risk.
  • Formulate intervention programme strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of accidents, incidents, injury and near-misses and potential risk.
  • Evaluate intervention programme actions, risk management, and associated outcomes and make recommendations for quality improvement.

MGT645 Workplace Health and Safety Resilience in Dynamic and Disrupted Contexts (Level 6) 15 credits

This course provides learners with the skills to strengthen and adapt workplace health and safety systems and practices in dynamic and disrupted contexts.  Learners will evaluate how disruption affects organisational health, safety and wellbeing, and will develop inclusive, proactive strategies that build organisation, system and person resilience, support psychosocial wellbeing, and empower and engage workplace stakeholders through culturally responsive and inclusive leadership and communication.

Upon the successful completion of this course, ākonga will be able to:

  • Evaluate the potential impacts of dynamic and disrupted contexts and disruptive events on workplace health and safety systems, practices and worker wellbeing in the New Zealand context, and identify opportunities to build resilience. 
  • Adapt health and safety systems and practices to strengthen organisational resilience, quality, and to support both leadership and employee capability in dynamic and disrupted workplace contexts.  
  • Lead and apply inclusive and culturally responsive health and safety communication and engagement strategies to support participation and psychosocial wellbeing in dynamic and disrupted workplace contexts.
Career Opportunities

Graduates of this qualification will have the skills and knowledge to work as a manager or leader in a range of strategic roles within a health and safety context in New Zealand organisations.

Recent graduates of the New Zealand Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety Management have furthered their career in their current employment, gaining additional responsibilities and/or successfully increasing their remuneration in reflection of their additional skills.

Application Criteria

Applicants should be a minimum of 20 years of age, with a minimum of four years secondary education. All applicants should have academic attributes (e.g. successful completion of a previous qualification at Level 4 or above) or industry experience (e.g. as evidenced by CV or employer references) which indicate they have a reasonable likelihood of successful completion of the programme.

Personal commitment and a belief in one’s own ability to succeed are also important personal traits and will always be taken into consideration during the selection process.

Special Admission

Notwithstanding the above admissions categories, in exceptional circumstances, a mature aged applicant who can show evidence of ability to succeed in advanced level studies in workplace health and safety management (e.g. strong work experience/background as evidenced by CV, or referee attestations), may be considered for admission provided the applicant has successfully completed an approved course or programme, which is deemed to prepare graduates for the required academic standard for entry.

English Language Requirements

Applicants, whose first language is not English, or who come from a country where the language of instruction in schools is not English, are required to provide evidence of having achieved one of the following: 

NCEA Level 3 with University Entrance, or

an International Baccalaureate Diploma or Cambridge A¬ level qualification for which the teaching and assessment was conducted in English; or

Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA),or

Trinity College  London Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CertTESOL);or

Successful completion of all primary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand primary school years 1 to 8) and at least three years of secondary education (being the equivalent of three years from New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in  either New Zealand, Australia­, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States one of the countries listed in Rule 18.5 where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or

Successful completion of at least five years of secondary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in either New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or

Successful completion of a Bachelor ‘s Degree, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Bachelor Honours degree, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, Masters’ Degree or Doctoral Degree, the language of instruction of which must be in English and which must be  from a tertiary education provider from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States or

Successful completion of one of the following internationally recognised proficiency tests listed below to the level required of the programme of study and  with all scores achieved in a single test during the two years  preceding the proposed date of enrolment

Diploma at Level 6

  • IELTS test - Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5
  • TOEFL Paper based test (pBT) - Score of 550 (with an essay score 5 TWE)
  • TOEFL Internet based test (iBT) - Score of 60 (with a writing score of 18)
  • Cambridge English Examination -B2 First or B2 First for schools or C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a score of 169.  No less than 162 in each skill.
  • OET - Minimum of Grade C or 200 in all sub-tests
  • NZCEL - Level 4 (Academic) 
  • Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PTE (Academic) score of 50 with no band score lower than 42 
  • Language Cert - C1 Expert International ESOL Written (LRW) PASS with no less than 25/50 in each skill and Spoken (S) PASS 
  • Trinity ISE - ISE II with no less than distinction in any band
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