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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer GQA Qualifications Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- 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.
This qualification covers the knowledge and understanding of the print working environment. It is intended for those working in, or intending to work in, the manufacturing technologies sector, specifically within print.
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
Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Processing and Manufacturing Industries Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know what is included in the Induction Process.
- Know the basic concepts of Employment Law.
- Know the basic principles of how safety, health and environmental legislation applies to their industry.
- Know the purpose of the Industry, it’s processes and key stakeholders.
- Know how their job role fits within the organisation.
- Know how discrimination and harassment can affect the workplace.
Knowledge of Print Administration Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the Departments/Job roles within the Company and their area of responsibility.
- Understand the role of an Administrator within a print administration environment.
- Understand the systems used for Administration purposes within a print administration environment.
- Understand the legal issues that govern working practices in Print Administration.
- Understand the communication and IT systems and procedures used within their area of responsibility.
- Know why good working relationships with colleagues are important.
- Know how barriers to good working relationships with colleagues can be overcome.
- Understand the importance of an organised work area in print administration.
Understanding Digital Artwork Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the hardware and software available to create digital artwork.
- Know the attributes of digital fonts and type face.
- Know the applications of digital fonts and type face.
- Interpret the design specifications for digital artwork.
- Understand the use of digital images in digital artwork.
- Format artwork for print.
- Understand the importance of obtaining authorisation and agreement for work on digital artwork.
- Know the main issues connected with Colour in Digital Printing.
- Understand the terminology used in Digital Artwork.
Understanding Digital Printing Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain digital printing machines in working order
- Manage digital colour printing machines
- Monitor the quality of output from the digital printing machines
- Control the use of variable data with digital printing machines
- Understand the terminology used in digital printing
- Know the main issues connected with colour in digital printing
- Ensure job instructions and handovers to colleagues are completed to minimise problems
Understanding Working Practices in the Print Working Environment Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the printing processes used within the print industry
- Understand the factors that influence the choice of printing process
- Know the departments and job roles within the company and their own area of responsibility
- Know the products produced by the company
- Know the types of equipment used within the organisation for print related work
- Know the importance of delivering customer requirements
- Know why good working relationships with colleagues are important and how barriers to this can be overcome
- Understand the need for confidentiality within the print industry
Understanding how to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the Print Company Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know why it is important to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the Company.
- Obtain and understand the work schedule.
- Ensure that the required quantities of products and materials are used.
- Ensure that the required human resources are used.
- Minimise wastage of materials.
- Identify and pass on improvements to work activities.
- Know how and why to identify opportunities and needs for personal development.
- Manage personal development information.
- Identify the current and required skills of colleagues.
- Identify the current and required knowledge of colleagues.
- Identify the current and required performance of colleagues.
Understanding how to manage Print Finishing Machines Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Manage print finishing machines
- Maintain equipment in working order
- Identify, correct and record machine faults
- Monitor the quality of output from print finishing machines
- Understand substrates and how they interact in relation to paper and board
- Ensure job instructions and handovers to colleagues are completed to minimise problems
- Ensure company procedures are followed for communicating production information
Understanding how to manage Print Machines Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Manage print production machines
- Maintain equipment in working order
- Identify, correct and record machine faults
- Monitor the quality of output from print production machines
- Understand the differences between “in line” and “off line” processes
- Understand the inks and ink drying equipment used in the print industry
- Know the substrates commonly used for printed products
- Ensure job instructions and handovers to colleagues are completed to minimise problems
- Ensure company procedures are followed for communicating production information
Understanding how to promote and monitor Health and Safety in the Print Administration working environment Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines that apply to the Print Administration working environment.
- Obtain information and keep aware of changes in health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines that apply to the Print Administration working environment.
- Implement and monitor changes in Health and Safety practices of others to comply with legislation, regulations and organisational guidelines.
- Carry out a formal assessment of hazards and risks in the Print Administration working environment.
- Adopt and promote safe working practices in the Print Administration working environment.
- Understand how to minimise risks when entering the Print Production area.
- Know what to do in the event of accidents and emergencies in the Print Administration working environment.
- Investigate accidents to identify the cause.
- Understand why it is important to investigate accidents to identify the cause.
Understanding how to promote and monitor Health and Safety in the Print working environment Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know which acts, regulations and guidelines apply to the print working environment and where this information can be obtained
- Obtain information and keep aware of changes in health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines that apply to the print working environment
- Promote and monitor company health and safety policies and guidelines
- Know the causes of health risks in printing
- Implement and monitor changes in health and safety practices of others to comply with legislation, regulations and organisational guidelines
- Carry out a formal assessment of hazards and risks in the print related working environment
- Understand how to adopt and monitor safe working practices
- Know what to do in the event of accidents, emergencies and health and safety related incidents
- Investigate accidents to identify the cause and why this is important
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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Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
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Build and sustain collaborative relationships with other organisations
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Build your organisation's understanding of its market and customers
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Comply with company environmental procedures
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Control Digital Colour Printing Machines
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Control Folding Machinery
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Control In-line Folding Equipment
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Control Multiple-Station Screen Printing Machines
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Control Narrow-Web Printing Machinery
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Control Numbering, Bar-coding or Inline Data Printing Equipment
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Control Output and Quality from Flexographic Units on a Multi-Unit Flexographic Press
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Control Output and Quality from Gravure Units on a Multi-Unit Press
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Control Output and Quality from Web Offset Printing Units on a Multi-Unit Web Offset Press
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Control Wide-Web Printing Machinery
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Control auxiliary equipment
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Control digital colour printing machines
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Control foil blocking machinery
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Control in-line Insetting-Stitching-Trimming Machines
Showing 18 of 66 standards these units map to.
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 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
Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Processing and Manufacturing IndustriesKnowledge of Print AdministrationUnderstanding Digital ArtworkUnderstanding Digital PrintingUnderstanding Working Practices in the Print Working EnvironmentUnderstanding how to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the Print CompanyUnderstanding how to manage Print Finishing MachinesUnderstanding how to manage Print Machines
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.
The Analyst · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration - Map a live decision Analyse
“Understanding how to promote and monitor Health and Safety in the Print Administration working environment” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Understanding how to manage Print Finishing Machines” 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.
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.
- Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
- Build and sustain collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Build your organisation's understanding of its market and customers
- Comply with company environmental procedures
- Control Digital Colour Printing Machines
- Control Folding Machinery
- Control In-line Folding Equipment
- Control Multiple-Station Screen Printing Machines
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 Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Processing and Manufacturing Industries, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Learners will gain foundational knowledge of employment rights and responsibilities within processing and manufacturing industries. The unit covers the induction process, basic employment law, health and safety legislation, and the role of the industry and individual job functions.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for GQA Level 3 Certificate In Understanding the Print working environment
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Processing and Manufacturing Industries
- Knowledge of Print Administration
- Understanding Digital Artwork
- Understanding Digital Printing
- Understanding Working Practices in the Print Working Environment
- Understanding how to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the Print Company
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
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