What's covered in the NEBOSH Level 6 International Diploma?
The NEBOSH Level 6 International Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals is a leading qualification for those already in a health and safety role looking to develop their skills to an advanced level.
The qualification is split into 3 units and covers health and safety regulation, managing risk, influencing culture, and hazard control
Learning Outcomes
The NEBOSH Level 6 International Diploma has 10 learning outcomes. By the end of the course you'll be able to:
Source, develop, evaluate and interpret relevant health and safety information and communicate it effectively to those who need it.
Promote a positive health and safety culture by changing attitudes and engaging, supporting, and influencing leaders.
Assess, develop and maintain individual and organisational health and safety competence.
Understand risk management, including the techniques for identifying hazards, risk assessment, control measures, and developing a risk management strategy.
Develop and implement proactive and reactive health and safety monitoring systems and carry out reviews and auditing of such systems.
Continually develop your professional skills and ethics to actively influence improvements in health and safety.
Develop a health and safety policy strategy within your organisation (including proactive safety, Corporate Social Responsibility, and change management).
Contribute to health and safety legal actions.
Manage contractors and supply chains to ensure compliance with health and safety standards.
Advise your organisation on a range of common workplace health and safety issues/hazards.
Full NEBOSH Level 6 International Diploma Syllabus
DI1: Workplace Health and Safety Principles
This unit provides an in-depth understanding of the key areas for managing health and safety. It covers moral, economic and societal drivers, ILO regulation, and management systems.
1.1 Socio-legal models
1.2 Enforcement
1.3 The International Labour Organization and its conventions and recommendations
1.4 Nongovernmental bodies and health and safety standards
1.5 Third parties
1.6 Insurers
2.1 Organisational structures
2.2 Leadership
2.3 Consultation
2.4 Health and safety cultures and behavioural change programmes
2.5 Traditional and proactive safety management
2.6 Risk perception
2.7 Human failures and factors
3.1 Competence, training, information and supervision
3.2 High reliability organisations
4.1 Hazard identification and techniques
4.2 Managing health and safety risks
4.3 Risk management
5.1 Loss causation and quantitative analysis of data
5.2 Measuring and monitoring
6.1 Professional skills
7.1 Societal factors
7.2 Corporate social responsibility
7.3 Organisation changes
8.1 Contractors and supply chains
DI2: Controlling Workplace Health Issues
Unit DI2 gives an in-depth understanding of all major aspects of managing chemical, biological, physical and physiological hazards in the workplace.
9.1 Occupational health and safety services
9.2 Mental ill health, wellbeing, workplace violence, lone working
9.3 Health surveillance
9.4 Hazardous substances
9.5 Health risks from hazardous substances
9.6 Epidemiology and toxicology
9.7 Asbestos
9.8 Ventilation and PPE
9.9 Hazardous substance monitoring
9.10 Biological agents
9.11 Noise
9.12 Vibration
9.13 Radiation
9.14 Musculoskeletal issues and manual handling
9.15 Workplace temperatures and welfare arrangements
DI3: Controlling Workplace Safety Issues
Unit DI3 provides a thorough understanding of how to create a safe working environment It covers welfare, fire, dangerous substances, work equipment, electricity, construction and transport.
10.1 Safe working environment
10.2 Confined spaces
10.3 Fire and explosion
10.4 Fire
10.5 Dangerous substances
10.6 Work equipment and machinery maintenance
10.7 Work equipment
10.8 Machinery
10.9 Mobile work equipment and lifting equipment
10.10 Electricity
10.11 Construction, work at height, demolition, excavation
10.12 Workplace transport, work related driving
NEBOSH Level 6 International Diploma Assessment
The NEBOSH Level 6 International Diploma is assessed entirely through practical activities and scenario-based questions.
Unit DI1 is assessed with a practical assignment split into four sections:
Section 1: Scenario-based questions
Section 2: Workplace activities
Section 3: Reflective tasks
Section 4: A short research project
NEBOSH recommends you spend around 40 hours on your DI1 assignment. You will have 4 weeks to complete your assignment and submit it electronically.
Units DI2 and DI3 are each assessed with a case study and scenario based questions. NEBOSH recommends you spend around 20 hours on each assessment paper. You will have 2 weeks to complete each assessment and submit it electronically.
NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma Pass Marks
You must achieve a pass in all three units to achieve your full NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma. Once you’ve passed all units, your marks will be added together and you’ll be awarded your final qualification grade, out of 300%:
The NEBOSH Level 6 International Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals is a leading qualification for those already in a health and safety role looking to develop their skills to an advanced level. 
