How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer CIWM has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and CIWM awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from CIWM.
Level 2 Diploma for Sustainable Waste Management Operative (Waste Site Operative) focusing on equipping learners with skills for working in waste management and resource management.
These are the units CIWM 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with CIWM. It does the teaching and the mapping. CIWM sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Comply with emergency procedures on waste management activities Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Respond appropriately to emergencies
Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Follow organisational procedures to plan the sequence of work
Contribute to the sustainability, maintenance and preservation of the environment Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Operate equipment to reduce environmental damage
Maintain a healthy and safe working environment for waste management activities Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain personal hygiene and safety standards
Process received waste Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Process waste materials safely and effectively
Work with others to improve customer service Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute constructive ideas for improving customer service
Working with other people Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Agree work activities with others
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Contribute to the sustainability, maintenance and preservation of the environment
- Standard
Work with other people in the waste management industry
The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by CIWM rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Comply with emergency procedures on waste management activitiesConforming to productive working practices in the workplaceContribute to the sustainability, maintenance and preservation of the environmentMaintain a healthy and safe working environment for waste management activitiesProcess received wasteWork with others to improve customer serviceWorking with other people
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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You do “Comply with emergency procedures on waste management activities” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Lead it Apply
“Maintain a healthy and safe working environment for waste management activities” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Comply with emergency procedures on waste management activities, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Knowledge of emergency protocols specific to waste management.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for CIWM Level 2 Certificate in Sustainable Waste Management Operations
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by CIWM.
- Comply with emergency procedures on waste management activities
- Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace
- Contribute to the sustainability, maintenance and preservation of the environment
- Maintain a healthy and safe working environment for waste management activities
- Process received waste
- Work with others to improve customer service
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.