MP Awards · RQF Level 5
MPQC Level 5 Diploma in Shotfiring Supervision for Construction (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits58
- Guided learning260 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by MP Awards · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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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.
Carrying Out Construction Diving Operations in the WorkplaceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when carrying out construction diving operations.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when carrying out construction diving operations.
- Maintain safe working practices when carrying out construction diving operations.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to carry out construction diving operations.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when carrying out construction diving operations.
- Complete the work within the allocated time w
Contribute to Health and Safety in the Blasting WorkplaceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify hazards associated with the workplace and record and report in accordance with organisational procedures
- Comply with all workplace safety legislation requirements
- Comply with and maintain all organisational security arrangements and approved procedures
- Comply with all emergency procedures in accordance with organisational policy
Contribute to an Efficient and Effective Drilling or Blasting EnvironmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to contribute to an effective drilling or blasting environment
- Contribute to an effective drilling or blasting environment
Deal with MisfiresReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to deal with misfires
- Deal with misfires
Design and Arrange for the Authorisation of the Blast SpecificationReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to design the blast specification
- Produce the blast design
Determine the Blast RequirementsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements of the blast
- Identify the area for the blast
Removing Components Prior to Demolition in the WorkplaceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when removing components prior to demolition.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when removing components prior to demolition.
- Maintain safe working practices when removing components prior to demolition.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to remove components prior to demolition.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when removing components prior to demolition.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when removing compon
Supervise the Blasting OperationReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to supervise the blast
- Supervise the blast operations
Support the Forming of Tunnels using Specialist Skills in the WorkplaceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when using specialist skills to support tunnelling operations.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when using specialist skills to support tunnelling operations.
- Maintain safe working practices when using specialist skills to support tunnelling operations.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work when using specialist skills to support tunnelling operations.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when using specialist skills to support
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 5 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.
- Build Prototype(s) of Selected Design(s) for Explosive Articles
- Carry out inspections for misfires
- Contribute to an efficient and effective drilling or blasting environment
- Deal with Misfires
- Design and arrange for the authorisation of the blast specification
- Determine the blast requirements
- Produce profiles of rock faces and landforms
- Receive and Handle Explosive Materials On-Site
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 5 Diploma in Shotfiring Supervision for Construction (QCF)
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- Carrying Out Construction Diving Operations in the Workplace
- Contribute to Health and Safety in the Blasting Workplace
- Contribute to an Efficient and Effective Drilling or Blasting Environment
- Deal with Misfires
- Design and Arrange for the Authorisation of the Blast Specification
- Determine the Blast Requirements
and 3 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.