MP Awards · RQF Level 3
MPQC Level 3 Certificate in Mining Safety Support Operations (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits22
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification8
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.
Arrange and Secure Loads in MinesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given operating information relating to the use of plant or machinery and confirm its relevance.
- Comply with the relevant, current legislation, special legal status documents, official guidance and organisational procedures to maintain safe working practices.
- Select plant or machinery resources for the methods of work and operations to be carried out.
- Comply with organisational procedures to minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area.
- Comply with the given contract information to carry out the work efficiently to the required specification.
- Complete the wor
Carrying out Mine Lamp Room OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Issue personal safety equipment
- Receive returned personal safety equipment
- Check mine personal safety equipment
- Clean and maintain equipment
Carrying out Production or Processing Control Room OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Check control room equipment.
- Monitor production and/or processing operations and/or environmental/ and/or other activities from the control room.
- Respond to potential or actual problems identified by control room monitoring.
- Understand how to act in response to emergency situations or alarms.
Conform to Efficient Working Practices in the WorkplaceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate with others to establish productive working relationships
- Follow organisational procedures to maintain good work relationships
- Maintain appropriate records in accordance with the organisational procedures
Operate Plant or Machinery to Receive or Transport Mine Personnel, Materials or MineralsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given operating information relating to the use of plant or machinery and confirm its relevance.
- Organise with others the sequence in which the work is to be carried out.
- Comply with the relevant, current legislation, special legal status documents, official guidance and organisational procedures to maintain safe working practices.
- Request resources to sustain plant or machinery operations to complete the programme of work.
- Select plant or machinery resources for the methods of work and operations to be carried out.
- Comply with organisational procedures to minimise the risk
Operate Safely in Mining EnvironmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify hazards associated with the workplace and record and report in accordance with organisational procedure.
- Comply with all workplace safety legislation requirements at all times.
- Operate safely
- Comply with organisational operating arrangements and approved procedures
- Comply with all emergency procedures in accordance with organisational policy.
- Respond to incidents and emergencies
- Operate safely in the Mining Environment
Prepare Mining Plant or Machinery for Operational PerformanceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given operating information relating to the use of plant or machinery and confirm its relevance.
- Organise with others the sequence in which the work is to be carried out.
- Comply with the relevant current legislation, special legal status documents, official guidance and organisational procedures to maintain safe work practices
- Request resources to sustain plant or machinery operations to complete the programme of work.
- Select plant or machinery resources for the methods of work and operations to be carried out.
- Comply with organisational procedures to minimise the risk of d
Run and Control the Operations of Standard Processing PlantReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to run and control standard materials processing in their area of responsibility
- Run and control standard processing plant in their area of responsibility
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 3 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
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Acquire, store and issue resources to provide service delivery
- Appoint personnel to work in the mine
- Arrange and secure loads for transportation
- Arrange and secure loads in the mine
- Arrange loading and transportation of materials
- Assist in the efficiency of the workplace
- Assist with the specified minerals processing activity
- Carry out control room operations
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 MPQC Level 3 Certificate in Mining Safety Support Operations (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- Arrange and Secure Loads in Mines
- Carrying out Mine Lamp Room Operations
- Carrying out Production or Processing Control Room Operations
- Conform to Efficient Working Practices in the Workplace
- Operate Plant or Machinery to Receive or Transport Mine Personnel, Materials or Minerals
- Operate Safely in Mining Environment
and 2 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.