ICTQual AB Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering
The ICTQual AB Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering is a career-focused professional qualification designed to develop knowledge and competence in occupational health and safety, environmental protection, and engineering-based risk management. The course provides learners with a structured understanding of how workplace hazards, environmental risks, and engineering controls can be identified, assessed, managed, and monitored across a range of industries.
This diploma covers key principles of occupational health and safety management, workplace risk assessment, hazard identification, accident prevention, environmental management, pollution control, emergency preparedness, and safe engineering practices. It also helps learners understand how health, safety, and environmental requirements can be integrated into organisational processes to support legal compliance, operational efficiency, and continual improvement.
The ICTQual AB Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering is suitable for learners and professionals seeking to build a strong foundation in HSE engineering and develop the knowledge required for responsibilities in workplace safety, environmental management, and risk control. It can support career development in industries such as construction, manufacturing, engineering, energy, oil and gas, facilities management, and other safety-critical sectors.
Overall, this qualification combines occupational health, safety, environmental management, and engineering principles to help learners develop a comprehensive understanding of modern HSE practices and their application within professional working environments.
Course overview
Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering
To enrol in the ICTQual AB Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering, learners should meet the following requirements:
The ICTQual AB Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering, qualification consisting of 30 mandatory study units.
Year 1:
- Advanced Process Safety and Major Accident Prevention
- Safety Systems, Reliability and Risk Engineering
- Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Risk Engineering
- Climate Change, Environmental Risk and Resilience Engineering
- Emergency Management, Disaster Risk Reduction and Business Continuity
- Incident Investigation, Root Cause and Forensic Safety Analysis
- Integrated HSE Management Systems, Governance and Compliance
- Strategic HSE Leadership, Safety Culture and Organisational Performance
- HSE Engineering Research Methods and Professional Practice
- Integrated HSE Engineering Research Project
Year 2:
- Advanced Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Exposure Assessment
- Human Factors, Ergonomics and Workplace Design
- Advanced Fire Safety and Fire Protection Engineering
- Mechanical, Machinery and Electrical Safety Engineering
- Chemical and Process Safety Engineering
- Hazardous Materials and Dangerous Substances Management
- Advanced Environmental Pollution Control Engineering
- Waste Management, Resource Recovery and Circular Economy
- Energy Management, Carbon Reduction and Environmental Sustainability
- HSE Auditing, Assurance and Continual Improvement
Year 3
- Principles of Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering
- Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
- Advanced Occupational Safety and Risk Management
- Process Safety and Engineering Safety Management
- Environmental Engineering and Pollution Control
- Environmental Management Systems and Sustainability
- Fire, Explosion and Emergency Risk Engineering
- Construction, Industrial and Workplace Safety Engineering
- Safety, Environmental Compliance and Performance Management
- Integrated HSE Engineering Project and Professional Practice
Here are the learning outcomes for each study unit:
Year 1
1. Advanced Process Safety and Major Accident Prevention
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain advanced principles of process safety engineering and major accident prevention.
- Analyse major accident hazards associated with complex industrial processes and facilities.
- Evaluate process safety barriers, safeguards and safety-critical systems used to prevent major incidents.
- Apply advanced hazard identification and risk assessment techniques to major accident scenarios.
- Analyse loss-of-containment events, fires, explosions and toxic-release scenarios.
- Develop engineering and organisational strategies for preventing and mitigating major accidents.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of process safety management arrangements and emergency safeguards.
- Critically appraise major accident prevention strategies and recommend improvements to process safety performance.
2. Safety Systems, Reliability and Risk Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of safety systems, reliability engineering and risk-based decision-making.
- Analyse the reliability and performance of safety-critical systems and components.
- Apply appropriate reliability and risk-analysis techniques to complex engineering systems.
- Evaluate fault-tree, event-tree and related systems-analysis methodologies.
- Assess failure modes and their potential consequences for safety-critical operations.
- Develop risk-reduction strategies based on reliability and safety-system analysis.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of engineering safeguards and protective systems.
- Critically appraise safety-system reliability and recommend measures to improve system resilience.
3. Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Risk Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles, stages and methodologies of environmental impact assessment.
- Analyse potential environmental impacts associated with engineering and industrial developments.
- Evaluate environmental risks associated with air, water, land, ecological and human receptors.
- Apply appropriate techniques for environmental baseline assessment and impact prediction.
- Assess mitigation measures designed to prevent, minimise or compensate for environmental impacts.
- Develop environmental risk-control and monitoring strategies for engineering projects.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of environmental management and mitigation measures.
- Critically appraise environmental impact assessments and formulate technically justified recommendations.
4. Climate Change, Environmental Risk and Resilience Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the scientific and engineering principles associated with climate change and environmental risk.
- Analyse climate-related hazards affecting industrial, infrastructure and organisational operations.
- Evaluate organisational and engineering vulnerability to climate-related risks.
- Apply environmental risk-assessment techniques to climate adaptation and resilience planning.
- Assess engineering measures for improving infrastructure and organisational resilience.
- Develop climate adaptation and environmental resilience strategies.
- Evaluate carbon reduction and climate-risk mitigation initiatives.
- Critically appraise organisational resilience strategies and recommend improvements for long-term climate risk management.
5. Emergency Management, Disaster Risk Reduction and Business Continuity
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of emergency management, disaster risk reduction and business continuity.
- Analyse potential emergency and disaster scenarios affecting organisations and communities.
- Evaluate emergency preparedness, response and recovery arrangements.
- Apply risk-assessment methodologies to emergency and disaster planning.
- Develop emergency response and business continuity strategies for complex organisations.
- Evaluate evacuation, communication, command and emergency coordination arrangements.
- Assess organisational resilience and recovery capabilities following major incidents.
- Critically appraise emergency and business continuity systems and recommend improvements.
6. Incident Investigation, Root Cause and Forensic Safety Analysis
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain contemporary principles and methodologies of incident and accident investigation.
- Analyse evidence from workplace incidents using structured investigation techniques.
- Apply root-cause and causal-analysis methodologies to complex incidents.
- Evaluate human, technical, organisational and environmental factors contributing to incidents.
- Analyse physical, documentary and witness evidence to establish incident causation.
- Develop corrective and preventive actions based on investigation findings.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of actions implemented following incidents.
- Critically appraise incident-investigation reports and formulate evidence-based recommendations.
7. Integrated HSE Management Systems, Governance and Compliance
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of integrated health, safety and environmental management systems.
- Analyse organisational governance structures and their influence on HSE performance.
- Evaluate HSE policies, procedures, controls and compliance mechanisms.
- Apply risk-based approaches to HSE governance and organisational assurance.
- Assess the integration of occupational health, safety and environmental controls within organisational processes.
- Develop strategies for improving HSE governance and compliance performance.
- Evaluate management-system performance against defined organisational and regulatory requirements.
- Critically appraise integrated HSE governance arrangements and recommend continual improvements.
8. Strategic HSE Leadership, Safety Culture and Organisational Performance
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain strategic leadership principles applicable to occupational health, safety and environmental management.
- Analyse the relationship between leadership, organisational culture and HSE performance.
- Evaluate organisational safety culture and behavioural factors influencing HSE outcomes.
- Assess leadership approaches for managing organisational HSE risks and change.
- Develop strategic HSE objectives, programmes and performance measures.
- Apply change-management principles to improve organisational safety culture.
- Evaluate HSE performance indicators and organisational performance trends.
- Critically appraise strategic HSE leadership practices and formulate recommendations for sustainable performance improvement.
9. HSE Engineering Research Methods and Professional Practice
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles and stages of research within HSE engineering.
- Analyse research problems and formulate appropriate research questions and objectives.
- Evaluate quantitative and qualitative research methodologies applicable to HSE engineering.
- Apply appropriate techniques for data collection, analysis and interpretation.
- Evaluate the reliability, validity and limitations of research evidence.
- Conduct structured literature reviews using appropriate academic and professional sources.
- Prepare professional technical reports using appropriate research and engineering conventions.
- Critically evaluate ethical, professional and methodological considerations in HSE engineering research.
10. Integrated HSE Engineering Research Project
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Identify and define a significant occupational health, safety or environmental engineering problem.
- Develop appropriate research aims, objectives and methodologies for an HSE engineering investigation.
- Conduct independent research using appropriate technical and academic sources.
- Collect, analyse and interpret relevant qualitative and quantitative data.
- Evaluate alternative engineering and management solutions to the identified HSE problem.
- Develop an evidence-based HSE engineering solution or intervention.
- Critically evaluate project findings, limitations and practical implications.
- Present and defend a professionally structured HSE engineering research project and recommendations.
Year 2
1. Advanced Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Exposure Assessment
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain advanced principles of industrial hygiene and occupational exposure science.
- Analyse chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic workplace exposures.
- Evaluate occupational exposure assessment and workplace monitoring methodologies.
- Interpret occupational exposure monitoring data against appropriate exposure criteria.
- Assess the effectiveness of engineering and administrative exposure controls.
- Develop occupational hygiene monitoring and exposure-control programmes.
- Evaluate respiratory protection and personal protective equipment programmes.
- Critically appraise occupational exposure risks and recommend evidence-based interventions.
2. Human Factors, Ergonomics and Workplace Design
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of human factors, ergonomics and human reliability.
- Analyse physical, cognitive and organisational ergonomic hazards.
- Evaluate workplace design in relation to human capabilities and limitations.
- Assess the influence of fatigue, workload, stress and human error on HSE performance.
- Apply appropriate ergonomic assessment methodologies.
- Develop engineering and organisational controls for ergonomic risks.
- Evaluate workplace layouts, equipment and processes using human-centred design principles.
- Critically appraise human-factor interventions and recommend improvements.
3. Advanced Fire Safety and Fire Protection Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain advanced principles of fire science, combustion and fire behaviour.
- Analyse fire and explosion hazards in complex workplaces and industrial environments.
- Evaluate fire risk assessment methodologies.
- Assess active and passive fire protection systems.
- Evaluate fire detection, alarm, suppression and smoke-control systems.
- Develop engineering strategies for fire prevention and protection.
- Assess emergency evacuation and fire-response arrangements.
- Critically evaluate fire protection systems and recommend engineering improvements.
4. Mechanical, Machinery and Electrical Safety Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain mechanical, machinery and electrical safety engineering principles.
- Analyse hazards associated with industrial machinery and electrical systems.
- Evaluate machine guarding and engineering safety-control systems.
- Assess electrical hazards including shock, arc flash and ignition risks.
- Apply safe isolation and energy-control principles to hazardous equipment.
- Develop engineering controls for machinery and electrical safety risks.
- Evaluate inspection, testing and preventive-maintenance programmes.
- Critically appraise machinery and electrical safety arrangements and recommend improvements.
5. Chemical and Process Safety Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain advanced principles of chemical and process safety engineering.
- Analyse hazards associated with chemical processes and industrial operations.
- Apply structured process hazard identification and analysis techniques.
- Evaluate risks associated with toxic releases, fires, explosions and runaway reactions.
- Assess process safety barriers, safeguards and critical protection systems.
- Develop engineering controls for chemical and process safety risks.
- Evaluate process safety management arrangements and operational controls.
- Critically appraise process safety performance and recommend major-incident prevention measures.
6. Hazardous Materials and Dangerous Substances Management
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of hazardous-material and dangerous-substance management.
- Analyse physical, chemical, toxicological and environmental characteristics of hazardous substances.
- Evaluate risks associated with hazardous substance storage, handling and transportation.
- Interpret hazard communication information, labels and Safety Data Sheets.
- Assess occupational and environmental exposure risks.
- Develop safe storage, handling and emergency-response procedures.
- Evaluate hazardous-substance management systems against applicable requirements.
- Critically appraise hazardous-material controls and recommend risk-reduction measures.
7. Advanced Environmental Pollution Control Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain advanced principles of pollution-control engineering.
- Analyse sources, pathways and impacts of air, water and soil pollution.
- Evaluate environmental monitoring techniques and pollution data.
- Assess technologies for controlling industrial air emissions.
- Evaluate wastewater treatment and water pollution-control technologies.
- Assess approaches to soil and groundwater contamination control.
- Develop integrated pollution-prevention and control strategies.
- Critically evaluate pollution-control performance and recommend improvements.
8. Waste Management, Resource Recovery and Circular Economy
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain principles of integrated waste management and circular economy.
- Analyse environmental and occupational risks associated with waste streams.
- Evaluate waste classification, segregation, storage, treatment and disposal systems.
- Assess recycling, reuse, recovery and waste-treatment technologies.
- Analyse opportunities for waste minimisation and resource recovery.
- Develop waste-management strategies based on the waste hierarchy.
- Evaluate the environmental and economic performance of waste-management systems.
- Critically appraise organisational waste practices and recommend circular-economy improvements.
9. Energy Management, Carbon Reduction and Environmental Sustainability
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain principles of energy management, carbon management and sustainability.
- Analyse organisational energy consumption and environmental impacts.
- Evaluate energy-performance data and identify efficiency opportunities.
- Analyse sources of organisational greenhouse-gas emissions.
- Evaluate carbon-reduction and energy-efficiency strategies.
- Develop organisational energy and carbon-reduction programmes.
- Evaluate sustainability initiatives using appropriate performance indicators.
- Critically appraise organisational sustainability performance and recommend improvements.
10. HSE Auditing, Assurance and Continual Improvement
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles and methodology of HSE auditing and assurance.
- Analyse HSE management systems against defined requirements.
- Develop risk-based HSE audit plans and programmes.
- Apply appropriate techniques for collecting and evaluating objective audit evidence.
- Evaluate audit findings, nonconformities and areas for improvement.
- Analyse root causes of HSE performance deficiencies.
- Develop corrective and preventive action programmes.
- Critically appraise HSE assurance systems and recommend continual-improvement strategies.
Year 3
1. Principles of Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain fundamental principles of occupational health, safety and environmental engineering.
- Analyse the relationship between engineering systems, workplace hazards and environmental impacts.
- Identify common occupational, safety and environmental hazards within workplace environments.
- Explain the role of engineering controls in preventing workplace injuries, illness and environmental harm.
- Apply fundamental HSE risk-management principles to workplace scenarios.
- Evaluate basic HSE engineering controls using the hierarchy of controls.
- Develop appropriate recommendations for controlling identified HSE hazards.
- Demonstrate professional awareness of the role and responsibilities of HSE engineering practitioners.
2. Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of occupational health and industrial hygiene.
- Identify chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic occupational hazards.
- Analyse potential health effects associated with workplace exposures.
- Evaluate basic workplace exposure assessment and monitoring methods.
- Apply the hierarchy of controls to occupational health hazards.
- Assess the effectiveness of workplace health-protection measures.
- Develop basic occupational hygiene and health-control strategies.
- Evaluate workplace health risks and recommend appropriate preventive measures.
3. Advanced Occupational Safety and Risk Management
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain advanced principles of occupational safety and risk management.
- Analyse workplace hazards using systematic hazard-identification techniques.
- Apply qualitative and quantitative risk-assessment methodologies.
- Evaluate risks using appropriate risk-ranking and decision-making techniques.
- Develop risk-control strategies using the hierarchy of controls.
- Evaluate residual risk following implementation of control measures.
- Assess the effectiveness of organisational risk-management systems.
- Critically appraise workplace risk-management practices and recommend improvements.
4. Process Safety and Engineering Safety Management
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of process safety and engineering safety management.
- Identify hazards associated with industrial processes and engineering operations.
- Analyse process hazards using appropriate hazard-identification methodologies.
- Evaluate engineering safeguards and process-control systems.
- Apply engineering principles to the prevention of loss-of-containment incidents.
- Assess safety management arrangements for process and engineering operations.
- Develop appropriate process-safety control strategies.
- Evaluate engineering safety performance and recommend improvements.
5. Environmental Engineering and Pollution Control
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain fundamental principles of environmental engineering and pollution control.
- Identify major sources of air, water, soil and noise pollution.
- Analyse environmental pathways and potential impacts of pollution.
- Evaluate basic environmental monitoring and pollution-assessment techniques.
- Assess engineering technologies used for pollution prevention and control.
- Apply environmental engineering principles to pollution-control problems.
- Develop appropriate pollution-prevention and control measures.
- Evaluate environmental-control performance and recommend improvements.
6. Environmental Management Systems and Sustainability
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of environmental management systems and sustainability.
- Analyse environmental aspects and impacts associated with organisational activities.
- Evaluate environmental objectives, targets and management programmes.
- Apply environmental-management principles to organisational operations.
- Assess resource efficiency and environmental performance.
- Develop environmental improvement and sustainability initiatives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of environmental management programmes.
- Recommend strategies for improving long-term environmental sustainability.
7. Fire, Explosion and Emergency Risk Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of fire, explosion and emergency risk engineering.
- Identify fire and explosion hazards within workplace and industrial environments.
- Analyse fire and explosion risks using appropriate assessment methodologies.
- Evaluate fire prevention, detection, protection and suppression systems.
- Assess emergency preparedness and response arrangements.
- Apply engineering principles to fire and emergency risk control.
- Develop appropriate emergency and fire-risk reduction measures.
- Evaluate fire and emergency management systems and recommend improvements.
8. Construction, Industrial and Workplace Safety Engineering
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of construction, industrial and workplace safety engineering.
- Identify hazards associated with construction and industrial operations.
- Analyse risks associated with work at height, lifting, excavation, confined spaces and hazardous activities.
- Evaluate machinery, equipment and temporary-work safety controls.
- Apply engineering principles to workplace hazard prevention.
- Assess contractor, site and operational safety-management arrangements.
- Develop appropriate engineering and administrative controls for workplace hazards.
- Evaluate workplace safety performance and recommend corrective improvements.
9. Safety, Environmental Compliance and Performance Management
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain principles of HSE compliance and organisational performance management.
- Analyse regulatory, organisational and technical requirements affecting HSE performance.
- Evaluate workplace compliance against defined HSE requirements.
- Apply inspection, monitoring and performance-evaluation techniques.
- Analyse HSE performance indicators and operational trends.
- Develop corrective and preventive action plans for identified deficiencies.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of HSE compliance and performance-management systems.
- Recommend strategies for improving organisational HSE compliance and performance.
10. Integrated HSE Engineering Project and Professional Practice
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
- Explain the principles of professional HSE engineering practice and project management.
- Identify and define an applied occupational health, safety or environmental engineering problem.
- Apply appropriate engineering, HSE and research principles to investigate the selected problem.
- Analyse technical and operational information to determine appropriate solutions.
- Evaluate alternative engineering and management interventions.
- Develop an integrated HSE engineering solution supported by appropriate evidence.
- Evaluate the technical, environmental, safety and organisational implications of the proposed solution.
- Present and professionally defend project findings, conclusions and recommendations.
The ICTQual AB Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Engineering can support learners who want to progress into professional HSE, occupational safety, environmental management, and safety engineering roles. The qualification can provide a foundation for further academic study, professional development, and career advancement in safety-critical industries.
- HSE and Safety Engineering Roles: Progress towards roles such as HSE Officer, HSE Coordinator, Safety Engineer, Safety Supervisor, or Occupational Health and Safety Advisor.
- Environmental Careers: Develop towards positions including Environmental Officer, Environmental Coordinator, Environmental Compliance Officer, or Sustainability Assistant.
- Industrial and Construction Safety: Progress into safety-focused roles within construction, manufacturing, engineering, energy, oil and gas, facilities management, and other industrial sectors.
- Specialist HSE Development: Pursue further professional learning in areas such as process safety, fire safety, environmental management systems, industrial hygiene, emergency management, and risk assessment.
- Management Progression: Build towards HSE management and environmental management positions by combining this qualification with relevant industry experience and further professional development.