01What it is
These are the units PAA/VQSET 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 PAA/VQSET. It does the teaching and the mapping. PAA/VQSET sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
02The units
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Accept, Verify and Store Materials Required for Process Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Accept materials needed for process operations
- Accept materials needed for process operations
- Examine the materials to ensure the right quality
- Examine the materials to ensure the right quality
- Store materials needed for process operations
- Store materials needed for process operations
- Monitor materials in storage
- Monitor materials in storage
- Deal with problems
- Use the organisational communication methods
- Maintain records
- Maintain records
- Know how
Assemble Products Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Meet production requirements
- Utilise documentation to produce products to specification
- Assemble products
- Assemble products to specification
- Deal with non conforming products during assembly
- Be able check assembled products
- Assemble products in safe manner
- Carry out a assembly process safely
Assess Data and Produce Reports Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Collate data
- Complete and maintain documentation
- Validate data
- Interpret data
- Make corrections
- Produce reports
- Collate and validate data
- Make corrections to data
- Produce reports
- Deal with data in accordance with organisational procedures
Carry Out Simple Sampling Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Know the factors to consider when carrying out simple sampling operations
- Achieve the correct conditions for sampling
- Ensure the correct conditions for sampling
- Care for the equipment that is used for sampling
- Prepare equipment and materials that will be used for sampling
- Take a sample
- Take a sample
- Maintain the integrity of the sample
- Prepare equipment and materials for the next sampling operation
- Record the information from the sampling operation
- Record the information
Carry Out Simple Testing Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Achieve the correct conditions for testing operations
- Ensure the correct conditions for testing operations
- Care for the equipment that is used for testing operations
- Prepare equipment that will be used for testing operations
- Take a sample for testing
- Take a sample for testing
- Prepare for the next test
- Record the information from the testing operation
- Record the information from the testing operation
- Act if an abnormal result is found
- Report deviations and abno
Configure Processing Equipment within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Remove the forming tool and ancillary equipment
- Know the safe working practices and procedures when removing forming tools
- Replace the forming tool and ancillary equipment
- Know the safe working practices and procedures when replacing forming tools
- Ensure the safety of the process equipment and work area within polymer processing and related environments
- Know the safety requirements for the process equipment and work area
- Handover equipment for production activity within polymer processing and related environments
- Know the requirements for handing over equipment for production activities
Contribute to the Handover of Production Activities Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective communication techniques
- Prepare for handover
- Prepare for handover
- Carry out the handover safely
- Carry out the handover safely
- Communicate for a successful handover
- Complete the necessary documentation
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
Contribute to the Maintenance of Product Quality Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how process materials affect the quality checks that are carried out
- Prepare for quality checks
- Make quality checks
- Make quality checks
- Record the results of quality checks
- Record the results of quality checks
- Deal with problems
- Deal with problems
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
Contribute to the Provision of Ancillary Systems Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Provide ancillary systems to meet production requirements
- Provide ancillary systems to meet production requirements
- Control and regulate ancillary systems
- Control and regulate ancillary systems
- Maintain the condition of ancillary systems
- Maintain the condition of ancillary systems
- Deal with problems
- Deal with problems
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
Establish and Maintain Effective Working Relationships Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with contacts
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others from outside the immediate work area
- Use communication methods to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Use communication methods to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Deal with problems to maintain effective work
Finish Products Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Meet production requirements
- Meet production requirements
- Finish products
- Finish products
- Deal with problems
- Deal with problems
- Maintain quality
- Deal with hazards
- Deal with hazards
- Maintain records
- Maintain records
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
Inspect Products Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain quality
- Maintain quality
- Finish products that meet the required standards
- Deal with hazards
- Maintain records
- Maintain records
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
Maintain the Condition of Process Equipment Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for maintenance
- Prepare for maintenance
- Care for the components
- Remove and replace components from process equipment
- Remove components from process equipment during maintenance
- Replace components from process equipment during maintenance
- Make adjustments to process equipment
- Make adjustments to process equipment
- Work safely
- Work safety
- Deal with problems
- Deal with problems
- Record and report the required information
- Be able to
Meet Safety, Health and Environmental Requirements in the Workplace Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Protect the environment
- Ensure own safety
- Ensure own safety
- Use and care for personal protective equipment
- Use and care for personal protective equipment
- Minimise and deal with hazards
- Minimise and deal with hazards
- Deal with emergencies
- Respond to emergency alarms
- Respond to emergency alarms
- Deal with accidents and incidents
- Apply good housekeeping practices
- Suggest improvements to working practices
- Work to organisation
Pack and Store Production Components Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Pack production components correctly
- Store or dispose of production components correctly
- Deal with potential hazards correctly
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Pack production components correctly
- Store and dispatch or dispose of production components
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
Pick Polymer Stock and Make Up Orders Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare stock for a customer order
- Deal with problems
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Control stock
- Prepare stock for a customer order
- Make up an order
- Make up an order
- Prepare an order for dispatch
- Fulfil the documentation requirements
- Fulfil the documentation requirements
- Deal with problems
Prepare to Configure Processing Equipment within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Establish configuration requirements for processing equipment
- Know the required information to prepare processing equipment within polymer processing and related environments
- Communicate the configuration requirements to the required personnel within polymer processing and related environments
- Communicate configuration requirements effectively within polymer processing and related environments
- Organise and prepare the work area using safe working practices for configuring processing equipment within polymer processing and related environments
- Organise and prepare a
Prepare to Produce Products by Hand-Based Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Meet production requirements
- Meet production requirements
- Prepare equipment and tools for producing products
- Prepare equipment and tools for producing products
- Prepare materials for producing products
- Prepare materials for the production process
- Control the use of materials to ensure quality and safety
- Deal with problems when producing products
- Deal with problems when producing products
- Deal with hazards
- Identify and take appropriate action to deal with hazar
Produce Products Using Hand-Based Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Meet production requirements
- Maintain the production process
- Keep the equipment in good working order
- Use the materials in the production process
- Produce products by hand-based operations
- Produce products by hand-based operations
- Shutdown a hand-based production process
- Shutdown a hand-based production process
- Deal with problems
- Deal with problems
- Maintain quality
- Maintain quality
- Deal with hazards
- Deal with hazards
- Kno
Shutdown a Machine-Based Production Process Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for shutdown
- Prepare to shutdown
- Prepare the equipment and tools that will be used in the shutdown process
- Prepare the equipment and tools that will be used in the shutdown process
- Use materials cost-effectively
- Use materials cost-effectively
- Shutdown the production process
- Shutdown the production process
- Deal with hazards
- Deal with hazards
- Maintain records
- Maintain records
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
- Be
Start Up and Maintain a Machine-Based Production Process Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Meet production requirements
- Maintain the production process
- Start up and maintain the production process
- Gather the required information about the materials that are to be used
- Use the materials in the production process
- Use the materials in the production process
- Deal with problems
- Deal with problems
- Maintain quality
- Maintain records
- Maintain records
- Work to organisational and operational procedures
Supply Materials Required for Process Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments Real unit · PAA/VQSET
What you'll be able to do
- Lift and handle materials safely
- Comply with production requirements
- Prepare to move materials
- Prepare to move materials
- Gather materials for process operations
- Gather materials for process operations
- Deliver materials needed for process operations
- Deliver materials needed for process operations
- Deal with problems
- Deal with problems
- Use the organisational communication methods
- Maintain records
- Maintain records
- Work to org
03The standards
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
08_Produce biomaterial using bioreactors in biomanufacturing upstream processing
- Standard
18_Carry out sampling operations in a biomanufacturing environment
- Standard
Accept, verify and store materials required for process operations
- Standard
Amplifying DNA samples using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
- Standard
Assess data and produce reports
- Standard
Carry out a hand-based processing operation
- Standard
Carry out simple sampling operations
- Standard
Carry out simple sampling operations
- Standard
Carry out simple testing operations
- Standard
Close the Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
- Standard
Configure Processing Equipment
- Standard
Configure and Set Processing Systems to Meet Production Requirements within Polymer Processing and Related Operations
- Standard
Configure and set processing systems to meet production requirements
- Standard
Contribute to a machine
- Standard
Contribute to the handover of production activities
- Standard
Contribute to the maintenance of product quality
- Standard
Contribute to the maintenance of product quality
- Standard
Contribute to the provision of ancillary systems
Showing 18 of 59 standards these units map to.
04The credits
The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by PAA/VQSET 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
Accept, Verify and Store Materials Required for Process Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related EnvironmentsAssemble Products Within Polymer Processing and Related EnvironmentsAssess Data and Produce Reports Within Polymer Processing and Related EnvironmentsCarry Out Simple Sampling Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related EnvironmentsCarry Out Simple Testing Operations Within Polymer Processing and Related EnvironmentsConfigure Processing Equipment within Polymer Processing and Related EnvironmentsContribute to the Handover of Production Activities Within Polymer Processing and Related EnvironmentsContribute to the Maintenance of Product Quality Within Polymer Processing and Related Environments
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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.
PAA\VQSET Level 2 Certificate In Polymer Related Operations
- 08_Produce biomaterial using bioreactors in biomanufacturing upstream processing
- 18_Carry out sampling operations in a biomanufacturing environment
- Accept, verify and store materials required for process operations
- Amplifying DNA samples using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
- Assess data and produce reports
- Carry out a hand-based processing operation
- Carry out simple sampling operations
- Carry out simple testing operations
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This qualification is no longer awarded.
Ofqual lists it as no longer awarded, so it cannot be started today. The last day to be awarded it was 31 December 2018. It is here because people still hold it.
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