The course is suitable for those currently working, returning to work or who wish to undertake a job and want to obtain a nationally recognized health and safety qualification.

Witness testimonies are classed as “supporting” evidence and provide additional information in the form of a statement of authentication from an occupationally competent individual who verifies all relevant details of a learner’s workplace activities and validates that the learner can conduct a skill or task. In some instances, the course requires the learner to demonstrate certain skills such as ‘Select mathematical language, communication and processing techniques to suit the audience’, which the learner cannot prove using a written evidence alone. Hence, an expert witness is tasked with providing a written record of the learner’s performance at the workplace, precisely describing the activity undertaken against targeted assessment criteria confirming if these have been followed in the work setting. Witness testimonies are compulsory in both the units, and this will be clearly stated in the relevant Assessment Brief. Moreover, it is to be noted that along with the witness testimony, pieces of evidence will be required to support it. Evidence should be relevant to the details that one has mentioned in the witness testimony.

Supporting pieces of evidence might include any presentation you prepared making good use of mathematics, any budgets you prepare for yourself, any tax calculations, or cognitive math test or pie charts (as you mentioned) that the witness testimony refers to.

It is not necessary to have a placement currently because witness testimony can also be provided by a colleague with whom you had worked in the past who could confirm that you had practised the required skills at your workplace.

No, you will be assessed by the coursework alone.