Advanced Diploma in Safety Management
Law, Military Science and Security - Safety in Society
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose:
The primary purpose of the Advanced Diploma in Safety Management is to provide a formal qualification for learners who are interested in pursuing a specialised career in safety management and related aspects by connecting knowledge and skills related to advanced risk and incident management. The qualification integrates knowledge and practical application by utilising simulated work environment examples. This ensures that learners can apply the concepts of toxicology, manufacturing and process safety and advanced safety auditing at a practical level in preparation for possible postgraduate study in the field of safety management. Learners will be knowledgeable in the main theories relating to construction and mining safety, emergency planning and safety systems to ensure that they can apply this knowledge in an ethical manner that takes human behaviour into account. This qualification also integrates the principles of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship as an approach to safety project management.
Upon completion of this qualification, qualifying learners will be able to:
- Demonstrate a coherent and critical understanding of the nature, purpose, procedure, requirements, and practices of safety risk management principles.
- Apply advanced skills and knowledge to successfully analyse new and existing measures to conduct effective incident analysis.
- Assess toxicological risks in an organization by applying comprehensive and in-depth knowledge and understanding of toxicological classifications, principles, and the natural laws of toxicology.
- Evaluate and apply integrated knowledge of safety management regulation and compliance in the construction and mining industries.
- Apply integrated knowledge of the field of safety management in a business environment to analyse, evaluate, and propose appropriate and effective integrated safety management systems with specific reference to manufacturing and process safety management, techniques, and design.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of safety auditing principles guidelines and frameworks to interpret and implement safety, health, and environmental audit.
- Compile and implement disaster prevention-, emergency preparedness-, and recovery plans in a sustainable manner that ensures the continued health and safety of employees and the community.
- Apply integrated knowledge of the role that ethics play related to all forms and contexts of human behavior in business operation and implement ethics in the safety management environment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the entrepreneurial approach to safety project management with a view of enhancing the integration of scientific and management principles in safety project management and improving skills in an intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial environment.
- Analyze and apply the concepts associated with advanced safety systems with the view of implementing a safety system program focusing on safety system risk management.
Rationale:
Given the dramatic changes that occurred in the business environment over the last two decades where manufacturing, services, construction, and mining organizations re-engineer, design and implement systems in their organizations, a need to have an appropriate qualification in safety management has been identified. The shortage of persons in manufacturing, services, construction, and mining sectors with the requisite safety management knowledge and skills to execute their duties efficiently and effectively, presents an ideal opportunity to develop an Advanced Diploma in Safety Management. The institution identified a requirement for a qualification in Safety Management to serve the needs of lower and middle management to support and improve safety management systems in manufacturing, services, construction, and mining organizations. Regular communication from learners, the safety management professional bodies known as the South African Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (SAIOSH), the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP), and the Institute of Safety Managers (IOSM), as well as industry, has become the motivation to develop a new qualification. No current qualifications offered at the institution meet the requirements of industry practice in Safety Management to serve the needs in service, manufacturing, construction, and mining organizations with a program on NQF Level 7. The aim is to target persons in junior and/or middle management positions, as well as those aspiring to these positions and who wish to increase their promotion prospects by acquiring this qualification. For this reason, the Department of Operations Management requested support from a safety management advisory board that consists of representatives from the above-mentioned professional bodies as well as industry representatives to forge new and creative university-industry alliances, which are key to our growth and sustainability. The learning pathway for the qualification starts with the completion of a Diploma in Safety Management or the completion of a degree or diploma in a related field with a view of specializing in Safety Management. The qualification has been designed to meet the needs in the service, manufacturing, construction, and mining sectors for employees with the appropriate critical, analytical, and organizational skills in the following key management and business disciplines: Occupational Health and Safety, Management, Business, Work-Study, Operations, Quality Management, Human Resources, and Administration. The qualification is designed to provide entry-level vocational preparation for Bachelor's Degree graduates or diplomates by offering an intensive, focused, and applied specialization that meets the requirements of professional bodies and industry in the safety management field.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate a coherent and critical understanding of the nature, purpose, procedure, requirements and practices of safety risk management principles.
- Analyse new and existing measures to conduct effective incident analysis.
- Assess toxicological risks in an organisation by applying comprehensive and in-depth knowledge and understanding of toxicological classifications, principles, and the natural laws of toxicology.
- Evaluate and apply integrated knowledge of safety management regulation and compliance in the construction and mining industries.
- Apply integrated knowledge of the field of safety management in a business environment to analyse, evaluate and propose appropriate and effective integrated safety management systems with specific reference to manufacturing and process safety management, techniques, and design.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of safety auditing principles, guidelines and frameworks to interpret and implement a safety, health, and environmental audit.
- Compile and implement disaster prevention-, emergency preparedness-, and recovery plans in a sustainable manner that ensures the continued health and safety of employees and the community.
- Apply integrated knowledge of the role that ethics play related to all forms and contexts of human behaviour in business operation and implement ethics in the safety management environment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the entrepreneurial approach to safety project management with a view of enhancing the integration of scientific and management principles in safety project management and improving skills in an intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial environment.
- Analyse and apply the concepts associated with advanced safety systems with the view of implementing a safety system programme focusing on safety system risk management.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Analyse and apply knowledge of the science of safety into the planning of safety risk management in an organisation's risk management plan.
- Access, process and manage information regarding the role and functions of safety risk management in an organisational context to address strategic-level issues.
- Apply the concepts of safety management systems and performance measurement in a simulated situation.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Evaluate and apply theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of incident analysis within a simulated work environment.
- Apply and adjust the application of incident analysis management within the operating context.
- Effectively communicate the solution to complex problems entailed in the incident.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Examine the central areas of toxicology to classify toxins and toxic effects in each scenario.
- Analyse and apply knowledge and skills in the formulation of toxicological hazard identification and risk assessment.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Distinguish between the relevant safety standards applicable to construction and mining and practically implement these standards.
- Identify various forms of safety hazards present in the construction and mining industries and formulate safety measures to eliminate or minimise risk.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Analyse and apply knowledge of various principles of manufacturing safety and safety processes that meet the organisation's safety requirements as applicable to a case study.
- Evaluate, critically reflect on and implement practical approaches for implementing manufacturing and process safety.
- Select and apply relevant principles to ensure manufacturing and process safety excellence in a case study situation.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:
- Identify, analyse, evaluate, and critically reflect on the appropriate safety auditing standards and legislation within a given scenario.
- Facilitate successful implementation of a safety, health, and environmental audit in a simulated work environment.
- Develop and communicate safety, health and environmental audit protocols, guidelines and checklists for a given case study.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:
- Apply and manage emergency preparedness training in a given case study.
- Critically reflect on emergency response processes and how it links with recovery projects.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 8:
- Apply safety management principles as a science in an ethical manner in the workplace by evaluating ethical and non-ethical human behaviour in an organisational context.
- Evaluate the contribution of ethical safety management in advancing consistent human ethical safety behaviour as an important factor to attain and maintain a strategic business advantage.
- Address problems in the safety management environment by counteracting the obstacles that are inclined to jeopardise effective ethical safety management.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 9:
- Integrate knowledge of safety management with an emphasis on the entrepreneurial approach into safety project management.
- Critically evaluate the application of the entrepreneurial approach in safety project management to solve strategic level problems.
- Apply integrated knowledge of the safety practitioner as an intrapreneur and entrepreneur and the associated advantages and obstacles regarding the entrepreneurial approach to safety management in a case study.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 10:
- Develop appropriate safety systems in a simulated environment.
- Apply the principles of risk management with an analytical approach to a safety system.
- Facilitate the successful implementation of a safety system in a simulated environment.
Qualification Details
- Type
- Advanced Diploma
- NQF Level
- 07
- Min. Credits
- 120
- SAQA Source
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