Accredited Skills for Industry · RQF Level 2
ASFI - Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Signmaking (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits38
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification22
Awarded by Accredited Skills for Industry · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Accredited Skills for Industry 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.
Carry Out Basic Installation Operations for Road Traffic Signage OperationsReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for carrying out the installation operation.
- Prepare to carry out installation operations.
- Install road traffic signs.
- Configure the installation.
- Maintain the quality of the installation.
- Deal with problems.
- Work safely.
- Complete the documentation.
- Access and interpret the instructions for carrying out the installation operation.
- Gather the resources needed to carry out installation operations.
- Install road traffic sig
Carry Out the Installation Operations for Commercial Signage OperationsReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for carrying out the installation operation.
- Prepare to carry out installation operations.
- Install commercial signs.
- Configure the installtion.
- Maintain the quality of the installation.
- Deal with problems.
- Work safely.
- Complete the documentation.
- Access and interpret the instructions for carrying out the installation operation.
- Prepare to carry out installation operations.
- Install commercial signs.
- Maintain
Carry out Engraving Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for engraving operations.
- Prepare for engraving operations.
- Carry out engraving operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare for engraving operations.
- Carry out engraving operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Carry out Etching Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpet the instructions for etching operations.
- Prepare for etching operatons.
- Carry out etching operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare for etching operations.
- Carry out etching operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Carry out Forming Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for carrying out forming operations.
- Prepare for forming operations.
- Carry out forming operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Select the resources needed to carry out forming operations.
- Carry out forming operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Carry out Hand Finishing Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for hand finishing operations.
- Prepare for hand finishing operations.
- Carry out hand finishing operations according to specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare for hand finishing operations.
- Carry out hand finishing operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Carry out Joining Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for joining operations.
- Prepare the resources needed for joining operations.
- Carry out joining operations according to the specification.
- Maintain quality during joining operations.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare the resources need for joining operations.
- Carry out joining operations according to specification.
- Maintain quality during joining operations.
- Deal with
Carry out Screen Print Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for screen print operations.
- Prepare for screen print operations.
- Carry out screen print operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare for screen print operations.
- Carry out screen print operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Carry out Self-Adhesive Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for carrying out self-adhesive operations.
- Prepare for self-adhesive operations.
- Carry out self-adhesive operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare for self-adhesive operations.
- Carry out self-adhesive operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Carry out Shaping Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the methods needed to carry out shaping operations.
- Prepare the materials needed for shaping and cutting.
- Prepare the equipment needed for shaping and cutting.
- Cut materials according to the specification.
- Maintain quality during shaping operations.
- Know how deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare the resources needed for shaping and cutting.
- Cut materials according to the specification.
- Maintain quality during shaping ope
Carry out Spray Paint Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the instructions for spray paint operations.
- Prepare for spray paint operations.
- Carry out spray paint operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Interpret the work instructions.
- Prepare for spray paint operations.
- Carry out spray paint operations according to the specification.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Carry out Wide Format Digital Print Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Know the principles of carrying out wide format digital print operations.
- Prepare for wide format digital print operations.
- Produce the required graphical image.
- Carry out wide format digital print operations.
- Finish the signage operation.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Prepare for wide format digital print operations.
- Produce the required graphical image.
- Carry out wide format digital print operations.
- Finish the signage operation.
- Deal wit
Create a Sign Layout and Produce a Graphical Image for Commercial SignsReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to produce a graphical image.
- Create images and designs according to the specification.
- Send the image to the output device.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Prepare to produce a graphical image.
- Create images and designs according to the specification.
- Send the image to the output device.
Determine and Carry Out Maintenance of Sign Products in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out maintenance procedures.
- Identify and eliminate sources of danger.
- Position and install sign maintenance equipment.
- Repair and restore components to their original condition.
- Deal with problems.
- Maintain records and other documentation.
- Carry out maintenance procedures.
- Position and install sign maintenance equipment.
- Remove and replace sign components.
- Deal with problems.
- Maintain records and other documentation.
Develop and Maintain Effective Working Relationships in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Establish effective working relationships.
- Communicate to develop and maintain effective working relationships.
- Work to organisational and operational procedures.
- Establish effective working relationships.
- Communicate to maintain effective working relationships.
- Deal with confidential information.
Finish and Complete Signage Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the work instructions.
- Minimise waste and prevent contamination.
- Utilise the resources needed to finish and complete sign operations.
- Finish and complete sign operations.
- Protect finished products during transportation.
- Utilise storage facilities.
- Know how deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Minimise waste.
- Utilise the resources needed for finishing operations.
- Finish and complete sign operations.
- Protect finished products d
Maintain the Quality of Sign Products in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Measure the quality of a product against the specification in their organisation.
- Check for conformity in sign materials and products in their organisation.
- Take the appropriate action in dealing with inspection results in their organisation.
- Store products safely.
- Repair a product.
- Deal with problems.
- Check for conformity in sign materials and products.
- Work to organisational and operational procedures.
Maintain the Work Environment to meet Health, Safety and Environmental Requirements in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain tools and equipment.
- Respond to tool and equipment faults.
- Minimise and deal with hazards.
- Respond to emergencies.
- Maintain the required documentation.
- Work to organisational and operational procedures.
- Use and maintain tools and equipment.
- Work in a safe manner.
- Deal with hazards.
- Work to organisational and operational procedures.
Manipulate the Sign Layout and Produce Graphical Image for Road Traffic SignsReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to produce a graphical image.
- Manipulate the sign layout according to the specification.
- Send the image to the output device.
- Deal with problems.
- Prepare to produce a graphical image.
- Manipulate the sign layout according to the specification.
- Send the image to the ouput device.
Prepare for Sign Operations in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Access and interpret the work instructions.
- Gather the resources needed for production.
- Prepare the work environment safely for production.
- Start up production when this is required.
- Deal with problems.
- Ensure that resources meet production requirements.
- Prepare the work area for production.
- Prepare the equipment needed to meet production requirements.
- Start up production safely.
- Deal with problems.
Prevent Damage during Transportation and Storage of Sign Products in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Protect products during transportation and storage.
- Transport sign products.
- Protect products during storage.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
- Safely protect products during transportation and storage.
- Transport sign products.
- Store products.
- Deal with problems.
- Complete the documentation.
Provide Information about Sign Products in a Signmaking EnvironmentReal unit · Accredited Skills for Industry
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of good relationships with customers.
- Know who can have information about sign products.
- Obtain the necessary information about sign products to meet the customer's needs.
- Present information to a customer about sign products.
- Record the details of information obtained for a customer about sign products.
- Maintain the security of information about sign products.
- Identify the needs of a customer.
- Obtain the necessary information about sign products to meet the customer's needs.
- Pres
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 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
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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.
- Assess Production Feasibility
- Carry out installation operation for signage operations
- Carrying out forming operations
- Carrying out joining operations
- Carrying out shaping operations
- Carrying out thermal spraying activities
- Carrying out thermal spraying operations
- Control screen printing machines for ceramic manufacture
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 ASFI - Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Signmaking (QCF)
22 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Accredited Skills for Industry.
- Carry Out Basic Installation Operations for Road Traffic Signage Operations
- Carry Out the Installation Operations for Commercial Signage Operations
- Carry out Engraving Operations in a Signmaking Environment
- Carry out Etching Operations in a Signmaking Environment
- Carry out Forming Operations in a Signmaking Environment
- Carry out Hand Finishing Operations in a Signmaking Environment
and 16 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.
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