City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Electronic, security and emergency systems
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits38
- Guided learning261 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Access control systemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements and implementation of surveying, design, and specification of access control systems
- Understand the principles of access control devices, and control equipment
- Understand the function and operation of common circuits used in access control systems
- Understand the principles of Ethernet communications, applicable to access control systems
- Understand cabling and cable/equipment installation for access control systems
- Understand the principles of typical power supplies employed in access control systems
- Understand typical system configurations, and administrat
Closed circuit television systems_CCTV_Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements and process of surveying and auditing CCTV systems
- Understand the requirements and process of CCTV system design, specification and quotation
- Understand the principles of CCTV cameras and lenses
- Understand the principles of CCTV transmission systems and equipment
- Understand the principles of CCTV image display, recording and control equipment
- Understand the principles of planning and managing CCTV projects
- Understand the principles of installing CCTV systems
- Understand the principles of testing, commissioning and handover of CCTV systems
- Understand the prin
Electrical and Electronic Principles of Electro TechnologyReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand 'charge' and 'current' in electrical circuits and their applications in the electronic security and emergency systems industry.
- Understand Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction and their applications in the security and emergency systems industry
- Understand Alternating Currents and Electrical Power in the electronic security and emergency systems industry.
- Understand electronic components and circuits and their application to systems in the electronic security and emergency systems industry.
- Understand Internet Protocol (IP) and its application to the electronic securi
Electronic article surveillance systemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of the electronic security systems industry, & the role of EAS
- Understand the system components of an EAS system
- Know the operating principles and features of Electronic Article Surveillance systems
- Understand how to survey, design, and specify an EAS system
- Understand how to install and supervise the installation of an EAS system
- Understand how to commission and handover an EAS system
- Maintain the performance of an EAS system
- Carry out technical audits of EAS systems
- Understand how to prepare a quotation for provision of an EAS system
Fire detection and alarm systems FD&AReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship of FD&A to the fire safety industry
- Understand the principles and features of detection and alarm system components
- Understand how FD&A systems communicate internally and externally
- Understand the principles of typical primary and secondary power supplies employed in FD&A systems
- Know the methods of surveying new and existing FD&A Systems
- Understand project management
- Design a fire detection and alarm system
- Understand how to maintain a FD&A system after handover
- Understand commissioning and handover
Integrated Electronic Security Systems - Personnel Alarm SystemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of stand-alone personnel alarm systems and integration techniques
- Understand the procedures required for a site survey for stand-alone personnel alarm systems and integration methods
- Understand the operational features, network links and sytem components for stand-alone personnel alarms and integrated systems.
- Understand the requirements of system design for stand-alone personnel alarm systems and integration
- Understand the installation techniques for stand-alone personnel alarm systems and their integration
- Understand the development and management of stand-alone per
Intruder alarm systemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements and implementation of Risk assessment, surveying, design, and system design proposal of Intruder and Hold up Alarm systems
- Understand the principles of intruder alarm detection devices, system components, alarm transmission equipment and control indicating equipment
- Understand the function and operation of Control and Indicating Equipment used in intruder alarm systems
- Understand cabling and cable/equipment installation for intruder and hold up alarm systems
- Understand power supplies employed in Intruder and Hold up Alarm systems
- Understand configuration and ad
Working effectively and safely in electro-technical environmentsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the background to health & safety legislation and the principles thereof
- Understand the requirements for health & safety in offices and work areas within premises
- Understand the requirements for health & safety in a company vehicle
- Understand the requirements for health & safety on site
- Understand the requirements for effective working practices within the security and emergency systems industry
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Arrange for deployment of CCTV cameras
- Develop operational requirements for CCTV
- Locate causes of security and safety alarms
Where this can lead
Health, Safety and Security Officer
Your journey in HSS is about continuous learning and increasing impact. Starting as an HSS Officer gives you that crucial hands-on experience that underpins all future senior roles. Where you take it from there is up to you – whether it's leading teams, becoming a deep technical expert, or shaping the safety culture of an entire organisation.
See the whole journey →Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Electronic, security and emergency systems
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Access control systems
- Closed circuit television systems_CCTV_
- Electrical and Electronic Principles of Electro Technology
- Electronic article surveillance systems
- Fire detection and alarm systems FD&A
- Integrated Electronic Security Systems - Personnel Alarm Systems
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.