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.

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
• Organisational behaviour
• 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.

*As of 01 January 2022, SIT2LRN has updated the paper codes to be in line with other Southern Institute of Technology’s qualifications. The paper name and content are the same.

Please ensure that you are selecting the correct papers when you enrol online as the application will now show the new paper codes.

Please refer to the table below for the old and new codes

MGT605 Risk Management and Quality (Level 6) 15 credits

Students will be provided with a thorough understanding of issues of risk assessment, prevention and intervention in undertaking projects. The related topic of quality control and evaluation is also considered in detail.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• analyse areas of risk in the project management lifecycle;
• undertake a risk analysis and justify conclusions;
• compare and contrast problem-solving methods for dealing with problems when they arise in projects and apply them to a specific scenario providing justification for the chosen approach;
• analyse the principles of quality control in projects;
• examine the common methods of evaluating quality in projects;
• develop a quality management plan and undertake, with rationale, corrective action to address a quality management issue in a specific example.

MGT608 Organisational Behaviour (Level 6) 15 credits

This paper provides students with a strong background and understanding of organisational and motivational theories and the application of these in the development of internal and external environmental analyses for an organisation.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• examine organisation theory in relation to management in organisations;
• examine motivation theory in relation to management in organisations and conduct internal and external environmental analyses for an organisation.

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

This paper presents students with an overview of health and safety in employment situations and the development of strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of work-related injury and illness.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• examine sources of health and safety information;
• analyse health and safety information;
• analyse programme strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of work-related injury and illness and develop and apply a health and safety strategy for a specific organisation.

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

This paper provides students with an overview of both health and safety systems and strategies, including policies and processes, to enable the proactive management of risk and hazards for both occupational health and occupational safety.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• discuss the purpose of integrated health and safety systems and strategies,
• critically evaluate both health and safety systems and strategies within an organisation,
• implement integrated health and safety systems and strategies to proactively management risk and hazards with regards to both health and safety,
• monitor an integrated health and safety system and/or strategy and evaluate the success of an integrated health and safety system and/or strategy.

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

This paper provides students with the knowledge and information to critically evaluate organizational health and safety training strategies and programmes.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to

• compare and contrast occupational health and occupational safety training strategies and programmes,
• assess the influences of occupational health and occupational safety training strategies and programmes on organisational operations,
• critically evaluate occupational health training strategies and programmes,
• critically evaluate occupational safety training strategies and programmes.

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

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be champions for occupational health and occupational safety to enable development of leadership and building of an organisational health and safety culture. This paper will also enable students to develop an understanding of aspects of leadership, leadership style and methods for dealing with leadership problems

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• assess occupational health and occupational safety best practice for a specific organisation,
• outline the factors involved in performance management and critically examine strategies to review individual performance,
• examine the importance of leadership style in managing people in a team environment,
• consider various contemporary leadership concepts and how they can be implemented to build an organisational health and safety culture,
• evaluate the application of leadership concepts in the development of a health and safety culture within an organisation.

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

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to analyse health and safety data to assist in strategic planning and performance measurement within an organisation.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• discuss the principles of data collection and management to assist in strategic planning and performance measurement relevant to occupational health and safety,
• calculate, apply and evaluate data from a range of sources, such as HR investigations, financial indicators, incident reporting, exposure monitoring reports, staff meetings, workplace audits, investigation reports, etc,
• compare and contrast strategic planning and performance measurement options for a given situation and make recommendations,
• use occupational health and safety data analyses and evaluations to assist decision-making in a given situation.

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

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and evaluate both occupational health and occupational safety programmes and reporting systems. In this paper students will undertake identification of sources of information to assist in the development and evaluation of intervention programme strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of work-related injury and illness.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• identify and access sources of occupational health and occupational safety information for the purpose of promoting health and safety,
• analyse occupational health and occupational safety information to identify potential injury and/or health issues,
• develop intervention programme strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of injury and/or health issues,
• evaluate intervention programme actions and outcomes and make recommendations.