BPEC Certification Ltd · RQF Level 3
BPEC Level 3 Award in Safe Systems of Hot and Cold Water and Sanitation (Watersafe experienced worker qualification)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits12
- Guided learning69 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by BPEC Certification Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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See how this course maps onto your role
Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units BPEC Certification Ltd 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.
Apply Safe Health and Safety and Working PracticesReal unit · BPEC Certification Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know health and safety legislation
- Identify and apply safe working practices
- Understand how to apply organisational procedures for emergencies and accidents
- Understand health, safety and welfare in the relevant work environment in relation to statutory requirements
- Know electrical safety requirements in relation to the working environment
- Know the meaning of hazards, risks and control measures
Safe Cold Water SystemsReal unit · BPEC Certification Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the Regulations/Byelaws and legislation relating to cold water for domestic purposes
- Know the different types of cold water systems and their layoiut requirements
- Know the notification requirements for work on wholesome and recycled water systems
- Know the requirements for water efficiency in domestic dwellings
- Know the backflow prevention requirements for cold water
- Know the fault diagnosis for cold water systems
- Demonstrate the installation and commissioning requirements of a cold warter system and its components
Safe Customer Care and Site PreparationReal unit · BPEC Certification Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the relevant people and their responsibilities in the building services industry
- Know the general site preparations needed for domestic plumbing
- Plan work programmes for all plumbing work
- Oversee job responsibilities for the building services industry
Safe Installation of Sanitation SystemsReal unit · BPEC Certification Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation and key installation requirements of above ground sanitation systems
- Know the types of above ground sanitation pipework systems and key system design features
- Know the alternatives to water sealed traps
- Know the specialist appliances (macerator WC and sink waste disposal units
- Know the commissioning of above ground sanitary pipework systems
- Know the design and installation of a rainwater system
- Know the different below ground drainage systems
The installation, commissioning and safety aspects of hot water systems for domestic use in accordance with UK building regulationsReal unit · BPEC Certification Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types and configurations of vented/unvented hot water systems including the design installation requirements
- Know the types and operation of specialist components used in hot water systems
- Understand the design requirements for hot water systems
- Know the installation and safety features of hot water systems and components
- Know the requirements for the installation of cold water components associated with hot water systems
- Diagnose faults in hot water systems and components
- Know the commissioning requirements of hot water systems and components in accordance with
Water Supply 'Water Fittings' Regulations and Water Byelaws in the UKReal unit · BPEC Certification Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements of the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations and Water Byelaws
- Understand terminology used to confirm requirements of the water regulations
- Know the suitability of materials and substances in contact with water
- Understand the requirements for water fittings
- Know the design and installation requirements for a water supply system
- Know the requirements for the prevention of cross connection to unwholesome water
- Know the backflow prevention fluid categories
- Know the requirements for backflow prevention
- Understand the guidance clauses relating to backflow p
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.
- Develop, implement and monitor strategic plans to minimise risk from contamination and other non-compliance situations
- Educate and Increase Stakeholders’ Knowledge of Water Fittings Compliance Requirements
- Educate, guide and enforce to secure water fittings compliance with legislation
- Inspect Premises for Compliance with Water Fittings Regulations and Byelaws Legacy
- Inspect premises for water fittings compliance
- Oversee an approved contractors’ scheme
- Plan and schedule inspections of water fittings and premises
- Present oral evidence about water fitting regulation and byelaw contravention in court Legacy
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 BPEC Level 3 Award in Safe Systems of Hot and Cold Water and Sanitation (Watersafe experienced worker qualification)
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by BPEC Certification Ltd.
- Apply Safe Health and Safety and Working Practices
- Safe Cold Water Systems
- Safe Customer Care and Site Preparation
- Safe Installation of Sanitation Systems
- The installation, commissioning and safety aspects of hot water systems for domestic use in accordance with UK building regulations
- Water Supply 'Water Fittings' Regulations and Water Byelaws in the UK
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.