MP Awards · RQF Level 4
MPQC Level 4 Diploma for Mines Rescue Officers (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits112
- Guided learning352 hours
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by MP Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units MP Awards 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.
Acquire, Store and Issue Resources to Provide Service Delivery in Mines Rescue OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Make an accurate assessment of known and anticipated resource needs
- Monitor the availability and quantity of resources under own control to ensure cost effective and efficient service delivery
- Identify and report to relevant people deficiencies in the availability of resources
- Acquire / issue resources to maintain specified levels within own level of authority
- Ensure own records are in the agreed format, complete, accurate and available to all authorised users
- Understand how to communicate the needs of the organisation in accordance with policies and procedures
- Actively seek opportunitie
Control Activities at the Rescue Station Under Emergency Conditions in Mines Rescue OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Instigate the emergency call out procedure
- Instigate/maintain a station log
- Instigate/maintain incident attendance sheet
- Establish and maintain communication with relevant staff throughout period of duty
- Ensure that the emergency call vehicle is equipped with sufficient reserve equipment to meet any additional needs from the mine
- Confirm that vehicles are fuelled and ready for immediate use
- Confirm stock levels of oxygen, gas and other consumables including ordering “out of hours”
- Prepare apparatus servicing area for return of used equipment
- Source appropriate mine plan and update with
Control Major Mining HazardsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify monitoring/tests to be carried out (as appropriate to the mine)
- Use equipment according to organisational procedures and manufacturers’ instructions and, where necessary, statutory requirements
- Take appropriate action where measurements are outside normal parametres according to operational procedures
- Record information according to regulatory/operational requirements
- Identify trends and levels where actions are required
- Report excessive levels according to operational procedures
- Take action to ensure safety of personnel in areas that may be affected
- Support the implementation
Deal with Mine Surface IncidentsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Respond promptly to request for attendance at incident
- Locate the incident site
- Set up an incident control centre
- Carry out an assessment of the incident site and situation
- Ensure the incident site is made safe
- Confirm that team and equipment are operational
- Request any additional resources to deal with incident
- Take measurements and photographs of the incident and area
- Monitor the incident/area environment
- Complete records of the incident
- Report to the authorised authority with responsibility for the incident
- Liaise with other incident stakeholders as appropriate
- Hand over respons
Develop Training Sessions in Mines Rescue OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the purpose of and necessary outcomes from the training session
- Produce specific aims and objectives for the session
- Identify different ways to deliver the session
- Consider the appropriate use of technology-based delivery and e-learning
- Choose ways of delivering the session which meet the aims and objectives of the session
- Identify the resources needed to deliver the session
- Ensure all learning materials are available
- Ensure that the method chosen will promote equal opportunities and access
- Include a range of appropriate techniques and activities throughout the session, includ
Establish Ventilation for Mines RescueReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate environmental measuring equipment
- Check that environmental measuring equipment is functioning correctly
- Take measurements to establish the quality of the ventilation
- Report results of measurement/s to the appropriate authority
- Report the physical situation and damage to the appropriate authority
- Respond to instructions from appropriate authority
- Remove spoil and/or equipment to restore adequate ventilation
- When required, install and/or reposition equipment to restore adequate ventilation
Establish and Maintain a Fresh Air Base in Mines Rescue OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and maintain effective communication with all relevant control points
- Confirm that site chosen for fresh air base is suitable
- Commence/maintain the incident log(s)
- Establish/maintain contact with person in charge of underground operations
- Ensure rescue personnel and equipment are fit for the purpose, tested and used correctly
- Make effective arrangements for segregation, storage and transport of rescue personnel and equipment into and out of mine
- Make arrangements for environmental monitoring/air analysis including transportation of samples out of mine
- Carry out briefing of tea
Fight Underground Mine FireReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain and use relevant information from senior person at mine
- Confirm transport arrangements to and from assembly point/s in the mine as near to the fire as safety permits
- Confirm that personnel and equipment are operational
- Communicate effectively with relevant persons/control points
- Confirm that it is safe to use the assembly point/s as base for fire-fighting operations
- Commence/maintain an incident log
- Ascertain what fire-fighting equipment is required to fight the fire
- Ascertain what fire-fighting equipment is available to fight the fire
- Request any additional resources required,
Identify Health and Safety Hazards and Risks in MinesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify hazards in the workplace and their existing controls
- Identify people who are at risk from hazards
- Assess the level of risk arising from the hazard
- Seek advice from managers or specialists in risk assessment when appropriate
- Report hazards constituting a high risk immediately to the responsible person(s)
- Deal with hazards which constitute a low risk in accordance with organisational and operational procedures
- Encourage suggestions from subordinates for reducing risks to health and safety
- Give suggestions to control or reduce risks to health and safety to the responsible person(s
Maintain the Surface Emergency Base in Mines Rescue OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm that utility services are working normally
- Commence/maintain rescue room log
- Control and document the arrival and departure of rescue workers
- Confirm fitness and competences of rescue workers
- Organise rescue teams
- Establish/maintain communication with other control points
- Allocate/ supervise checks on equipment
- Organise movements around transport times
- Use a succession planner in accordance with policies and procedures
- Arrange segregation of used equipment
- Establish arrangements for delivery/uplifting of equipment for service/maintenance
- Ensure the room is used ex
Mine escape and emergency organisationReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Plan inspection visits to mine/s
- Select and prepare test equipment and record sheets for visit to mine
- Confirm access routes/signage to emergency accommodation/associated facilities, emergency winder and emergency vehicle parking are in place
- Identify person responsible for inspection/maintenance of facilities on day to day basis
- Confirm emergency accommodation / facilities are in good order
- Confirm emergency equipment is in good order
- Confirm that servicing / maintenance of equipment provided is in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions
- Using relevant test equipment, carry out tes
Provide Leadership in own Area of Responsibility in a mineReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Create a clear vision of where own area is going, together with supportive objectives and operational plans
- Ensure that people working within own area of responsibility understand and can see how the vision, objectives and operational plans link to the vision and objectives of the overall organisation
- Steer personnel successfully through own area (of responsibilities) in relation to difficulties, challenges and potential conflict
- Create and maintain a culture within own area which encourages and recognises creativity and innovation
- Develop a range of leadership styles and select and apply
Respond to Underground Mine EmergencyReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Follow organisational procedures on receipt of call for assistance
- Turn out rescue team(s)
- Make arrangements for travelling to the mine
- On arrival report to local management
- Carry out reporting protocols for updating on the situation
- Agree an initial course of action with senior official on duty
- Confirm that the team and equipment are operational
- Obtain and interpret relevant mine plans
- Establish travel arrangements to pre-agreed site for commencing rescue operations
Save and Preserve Endangered Life in MinesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm what they have to do with the relevant people and keep them updated on progress
- Make best use of own equipment safely and within its limitations to carry out the search and deal with known and anticipated risks
- Conduct the search within own designated area
- Use and adhere to ongoing risk assessment to minimise risk to self and others
- Take account of everything which may affect the result of the search
- Administer aid to minimise further injury and suffering
- Make best use of own equipment safely and within its limitations to carry out the rescue
- Help to take casualties to a place o
Seal Areas Underground in Mines Rescue OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify site/s suitable for construction of stopping
- Select appropriate type/construction of stopping
- Calculate minimum length of stopping required
- Estimate material requirements for the stopping
- Estimate manpower requirements/time needed to construct stopping
- Identify environmental factors which may influence number of staff required particularly if wearing breathing apparatus
- Ensure that sites selected for stoppings are clearly marked
- Justify selection of access tubes (if required)
- Ascertain what utilities may need to be incorporated when erecting stopping
- Establish safe system of
Service and Maintain Breathing Apparatus and Equipment in Mines Rescue OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain and test rescue equipment and confirm state of operational readiness
- Correctly identify faults, defects, discrepancies or other issues requiring action
- Investigate and rectify faults, repair damage and replace worn or unsuitable components to correct specification
- Decant and recharge cylinders to meet service needs
- Test air purity, pressures and operational readiness on equipment after service or repair
- Obtain or confirm required certification
- Maintain accurate and complete records of service, maintenance and testing
- Monitor stock levels and maintain adequate supply to meet ope
Use and Update Mine Plans and RecordsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Locate, obtain and identify plan/s relevant to the work
- Correctly interpret the plan/s
- Consult with appropriate people where clarification or additional information is required
- Locate, indentify and confirm equipment from mine plans
- Initiate prompt corrective action where plans and equipment locations do not correspond
- Ensure any problems or conditions outside their area of responsibility are reported promptly to the appropriate person
- Inform others affected of anomalies raised in LO6 and ensure safety of personnel whilst queries and discrepancies are addressed
- Complete records or repor
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 4 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
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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.
- Acquire, store and issue resources to provide service delivery
- Assist in Mine Fire Fighting
- Assist in sealing and unsealing mine areas
- Assist with searches for missing persons
- Carry out control room operations
- Carry out mine ventilation measurements
- Co-ordinate Ground Control Activities
- Control Major Mining Hazards
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for MPQC Level 4 Diploma for Mines Rescue Officers (QCF)
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- Acquire, Store and Issue Resources to Provide Service Delivery in Mines Rescue Operations
- Control Activities at the Rescue Station Under Emergency Conditions in Mines Rescue Operations
- Control Major Mining Hazards
- Deal with Mine Surface Incidents
- Develop Training Sessions in Mines Rescue Operations
- Establish Ventilation for Mines Rescue
and 11 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.