Risk and Safety Management Professional

On a risk and safety management professional apprenticeship course, you’ll help identify hazards, analyse the associated risk and propose ways of treating them.

A risk and safety management specialist work with various disciplines in highly regulated industries where the impact of loss is substantial. They describe the issue’s context, identify all risks, including those with the potential to cause a catastrophic disaster, analyse the risk, evaluate the risk, and propose ways to handle the risk so that it is eliminated or reduced to as low a level is realistically possible.

They must include mechanisms for monitoring and assessing actual risk and safety performance and communicating and interacting with all important stakeholders on risk issues.

This apprenticeship will assist you in developing into a well-rounded professional capable of working successfully in your chosen industry while also acquiring risk and safety management skills relevant to all highly regulated sectors. You’ll get a master’s degree in risk and safety management.

What you’ll learn

On a risk and safety management professional apprenticeship course, you’ll learn to:

• Apply risk and safety management knowledge and skills to real-world situations. Recognise the context and choose and use systematic methods to identify hazards, analyse and evaluate associated risks, and offer proportionate solutions to problems. 
• Cope with the wider implications of working as a risk and safety practitioner, such as enforcing relevant laws and preparing for emergencies.
• Examine and think critically about your and others’ risk and safety leadership behaviours, emphasising the importance of influence and authority.
• Find out who the stakeholders are and what their needs are. Then, identify and assess relevant factors while effectively conveying risk and safety concerns to important stakeholders.
• Consider problems from many perspectives and cooperate with peers from different disciplines. Using various risk and safety techniques from the available resources to generate ideas and solutions with others.

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

• A bachelor’s degree in relevant science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
• Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this before taking the end-point assessment.

Assessment methods

The End Point Assessment comprises two distinct assessment methods: 

• Case Study Project and Presentation
• Professional discussion 

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 7 Risk and Safety Management Professional Apprenticeship standard can be found here.

Apprenticeship end point assessment

For more information about the End Point Assessment Process, please read the Institute of Apprenticeships’ information page.