MP Awards · RQF Level 6
MPQC Level 6 Diploma in Health, Safety and Environmental Management for the Extractive and Minerals Processing Industries (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits87
- Guided learning455 hours
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by MP Awards · on the Ofqual register
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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.
Conduct Environmental Impact Assessment at Extractive Industries SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify environmental aspects
- Assess the environmental impact and make recommendations
Conduct Health and Safety Risk Assessment at Extractive Industries SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify health and safety hazards
- Assess the level of health and safety risk and make recommendations
Environmental Knowledge for Managing Extractives Industries SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of improved environmental performance.
- Understand the importance of effective communications to improving environmental performance.
- Understand the arrangements for meeting statutory requirements and operational constraints for maintaining the working environment.
- Understand environmental management systems.
- Understand procedures for the maintenance of the visual impact of the site.
- Understand the legal responsibilities and operational constraints of relevant stakeholders in relation to the environment.
- Understand the principals and practice of environmental aspec
Gathering Analysing and Disseminating information on Extractive Industries SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information analytical techniques
- Understand the handling of information.
- Understand how the effect of organisational contexts on information
- Understand how to communicate information
- Understand how to achieve continuous improvements in information gathering, transmission and storage
- Understand involvement and motivation of personnel
Health and Safety Knowledge for Managing Extractives Industries SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of improved health, safety and welfare performance
- Understand the importance of effective communications to improving health, safety and welfare performance.
- Understand organisational arrangements for meeting statutory requirements and maintaining a safe working environment.
- Understand procedures to maintain safe systems of work
- Understand emergency situations
- Understand the health, safety and welfare issues arising from workplace practices.
- Understand procedures for the maintenance of site security.
- Understand the legal responsibilities of relevant stakeholders
Investigate and Evaluate Environmental Incidents at Extractive Industries SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate environmental incidents
- Evaluate environmental incidents
- Make recommendations based on investigation and evaluation.
Investigate and evaluate health and safety accidents and incidents at extractive industries sitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate health and safety related accidents and incidents
- Evaluate health and safety accidents/incidents
- Make recommendations as a result of investigations and evaluations.
Manage Quarry Drilling and BlastingReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the drilling and blasting operations in quarries.
- Manage the drilling and blasting process
Manage Quarrying Environmental AspectsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the quarry/ies in compliance with quarrying specific environmental legislation, regulation, consents and conditions.
- Manage the control of specific quarrying environmental aspects and impacts.
- Implement improvements to the environment
- Implement environmental training arrangements
- Manage quarry restoration
Manage Quarrying Health and SafetyReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the quarry/quarries in compliance with quarrying specific legislation and regulation.
- Manage the control of specific quarrying hazards and risks.
- Manage the working of the quarry/quarries to the quarry design.
- Implement improvements to health, safety and welfare in the quarry
- Implement training arrangements
Manage environmental improvement in extractive industries sitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and recommend environmental improvements
- Implement and monitor environmental improvements
Manage health and safety improvement in extractive industries sitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and recommend health and safety improvements
- Implement and monitor health and safety improvements
Manage the implementation of effective environmental systems in extractive industries sitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Implement and/or improve environmental systems
- Monitor environmental systems
Manage the implementation of effective health and safety systems in extractive industries sitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Implement and/or improve health and safety systems
- Monitor health and safety systems
Promote Health and Safety Culture and Training in Extractives Industries SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Promote a positive health and safety culture
- Organise the training required for improved health and safety performance.
Promote environmental culture and training in extractive industries sitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Promote a positive environmental culture
- Organise the training required for improved environmental performance.
Provide information for decision making in the Extractive IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information for decision making.
- Record and store information.
- Analyse information to support decision
- Advise and inform others
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 6 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
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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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.
- Conduct a health, safety and environmental risk assessment of the drilling operation
- Determine the Environmental Impact Assessment requirements and review the Environmental Statement for a project proposal
- Environmental and Sustainability Management in Mineral Processing Operations
- Gain permission for mine extraction
- Investigate and advise on legal factors affecting potential developments
- Investigate extraction site development factors
- Manage Geotechnical aspects and features in mineral processing operations
- Manage a mineral development project
Where this can lead
Environmental Specialist
Your journey in environmental management starts here with a solid foundation. We're looking for someone who's ready to roll up their sleeves, get stuck into the details, and grow with us. The opportunities to make a real impact are huge, and we're excited to see where your career takes you.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 228 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for MPQC Level 6 Diploma in Health, Safety and Environmental Management for the Extractive and Minerals Processing Industries (QCF)
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- Conduct Environmental Impact Assessment at Extractive Industries Sites
- Conduct Health and Safety Risk Assessment at Extractive Industries Sites
- Environmental Knowledge for Managing Extractives Industries Sites
- Gathering Analysing and Disseminating information on Extractive Industries Sites
- Health and Safety Knowledge for Managing Extractives Industries Sites
- Investigate and Evaluate Environmental Incidents at Extractive Industries Sites
and 11 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.