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- The centre assesses, and GQA Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from GQA Qualifications Limited.
A vocationally-related qualification at Level 2, this certificate focuses on laboratory technical skills. It is intended for individuals working in a laboratory environment. The qualification includes the use of laboratory services, routine procedures, and health and safety.
These are the units GQA Qualifications Limited 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 GQA Qualifications Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. GQA Qualifications Limited 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
Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand personal safety and hygiene practices as they relate to the organisation and the laboratory working environment
- Understand the procedure to be followed in the event of an accident or incident within the laboratory
- Understand the method for obtaining safety reference data, including safety data sheets (SDS) and other relevant documentation
- Understand risk assessment principles and how they relate to the role and working environment within the laboratory
- Understand the segregation and safe disposal of different types of laboratory waste, including hazardous and non-hazardous materials
- Understand relevant health, safety and environmental legislation applicable to laboratory work
- Know the local health and safety instructions and procedures specific to the laboratory environment
Laboratory Measurement Techniques Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to measure mass correctly using appropriate laboratory balances and weighing techniques
- Understand how to calibrate and maintain laboratory equipment to ensure accurate and reliable measurements
- Understand how to measure volume correctly using appropriate laboratory glassware and techniques
- Understand how to measure temperature correctly using appropriate laboratory thermometers and temperature sensors
- Understand how to measure pH correctly using appropriate pH meters and indicators
Routine Laboratory Housekeeping Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Create and maintain good housekeeping practices within the laboratory environment
- Clean laboratory apparatus correctly and safely, using appropriate cleaning agents and techniques
- Connect laboratory apparatus to other apparatus and to services (e.g. gas, water, electricity) correctly and safely
- Understand how to store and transport laboratory equipment, apparatus and materials correctly and safely, in accordance with relevant regulations and guidelines
Routine Laboratory Procedures Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare simple solutions correctly and safely in a laboratory environment
- Understand the importance and role of written documentation within the laboratory, including record keeping and reporting
- Understand the safe use and day-to-day care of laboratory heating equipment, including ovens and hotplates
- Understand the safe use and day-to-day care of laboratory cooling equipment, including refrigerators and freezers
- Understand the safe use and day-to-day care of laboratory equipment used for mixing, such as stirrers and shakers
- Understand the safe use and day-to-day care of laboratory equipment used for separating, such as centrifuges and filtration apparatus
Support for Laboratory Techniques and Practice Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to utilise all available means of communication within the laboratory, including verbal, written and electronic methods
- Understand how to organise work activities effectively within the laboratory, including prioritising tasks and managing time
- Understand how to manage resources effectively within the laboratory, including equipment, materials and consumables
- Understand how to keep and maintain records accurately and securely within the laboratory, including experimental data and equipment logs
- Understand how to collect and utilise information relevant to laboratory techniques and practice, including scientific literature and standard operating procedures
The Laboratory as a Working Environment Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand channels of communication within the organisation, including formal and informal communication routes
- Know the equipment and apparatus commonly used in a laboratory, including their functions and maintenance requirements
- Understand how to use a stock control system effectively within the laboratory, including ordering, receiving and storing materials
- Understand how to carry out general laboratory instructions/procedures accurately and safely, following established protocols
- Understand the types of reports required within the laboratory, including experimental reports and incident reports
- Understand security and access requirements for the laboratory, including authorised personnel and restricted areas
Use of Laboratory Services Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to use the mains gas/ Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) services safely and correctly
- Understand how to use gas cylinders safely and correctly, including connecting, disconnecting and storing them
- Understand how to use the water services safely and correctly, including taps, deionised water systems and drainage
- Understand how to use the vacuum systems correctly and safely, including pumps, lines and gauges
- Understand how to use a fume cupboard correctly and safely, including airflow monitoring and containment procedures
- Understand how to use heating, lighting and ventilation services effectively and safely within the laboratory
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.
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01_Maintaining health and safety in a laboratory environment
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04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
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07_Designing and conducting toxicity studies, and evaluating results
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12_Maintaining cell lines for laboratory activities using cryogenic storage
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15_Assisting with the Preparation of Solutions for Laboratory Use
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Assess and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel
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Assisting with the routine maintenance, cleaning, disinfecting and calibration of laboratory equipment
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Assuring Quality Methods and Procedures for Laboratories
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Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities
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Develop and Provide Training in Life Sciences and Related Industries
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Develop and maintain a healthy and safe work environment for scientific or technical activities
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Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for laboratory use
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Perform basic laboratory activities in a Home Office designated establishment
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Preparing culture media and solutions for laboratory use
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Provide support for scientific or technical learning activities
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Using and communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel
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Writing Laboratory Technical Reports
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 29 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Associate Laboratory Safety Technician
This work can lead to senior laboratory safety specialist roles, or on to principal EHS specialist positions in research and development.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited 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
Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the LaboratoryLaboratory Measurement TechniquesRoutine Laboratory HousekeepingRoutine Laboratory ProceduresSupport for Laboratory Techniques and PracticeThe Laboratory as a Working EnvironmentUse of Laboratory Services
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 “Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory” 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.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- 01_Maintaining health and safety in a laboratory environment
- 04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
- 07_Designing and conducting toxicity studies, and evaluating results
- 12_Maintaining cell lines for laboratory activities using cryogenic storage
- 15_Assisting with the Preparation of Solutions for Laboratory Use
- Assess and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel
- Assisting with the routine maintenance, cleaning, disinfecting and calibration of laboratory equipment
- Assuring Quality Methods and Procedures for Laboratories
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 Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop knowledge of health, safety, and environmental procedures within the labouratory. The unit covers personal safety and hygiene responsibilities, accident and incident procedures, safety reference data, risk assessment principles, and waste management practices relevant to labouratory work.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for GQA PAA\VQ-SET Level 2 Certificate in Laboratory Technical Skills
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory
- Laboratory Measurement Techniques
- Routine Laboratory Housekeeping
- Routine Laboratory Procedures
- Support for Laboratory Techniques and Practice
- The Laboratory as a Working Environment
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
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