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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ETC Awards 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 ETC Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ETC Awards Limited.
This qualification is designed for individuals involved in laboratory and associated technical activities. Learners will develop skills in carrying out investigations, communicating information, and providing training. It is relevant to the manufacturing technologies sector.
These are the units ETC Awards 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 ETC Awards Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. ETC Awards 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
Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Access scientific or technical information from appropriate sources.
- Communicate scientific or technical information clearly and accurately to authorised personnel.
- Understand the procedures for accessing scientific or technical information.
- Understand the importance of communicating scientific or technical information accurately.
Assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities, identifying strengths and areas for development
- Assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities, demonstrating an understanding of relevant assessment methods and criteria
Carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations effectively
- Demonstrate the ability to carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations consistently
- Understand the procedures for carrying out complex scientific or technical testing operations
- Understand the principles behind carrying out complex scientific or technical testing operations
Carry out scientific or technical investigations Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out scientific or technical investigations in accordance with established procedures.
- Demonstrate the ability to carry out scientific or technical investigations effectively.
- Understand the methods used to carry out scientific or technical investigations.
- Understand the principles of scientific or technical investigation.
Carry out scientific or technical testing operations Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out scientific or technical testing operations, following established protocols and quality control measures
- Carry out scientific or technical testing operations, demonstrating an understanding of the principles and techniques involved
Carry out small scale processing Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out small scale processing tasks effectively
- Demonstrate the ability to carry out small scale processing tasks consistently
- Understand the procedures for carrying out small scale processing
- Understand the principles behind small scale processing techniques
Carrying out complex scientific or technical sampling operations Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out complex scientific or technical sampling operations, ensuring accuracy and representativeness of samples
- Carry out complex scientific or technical sampling operations, demonstrating an understanding of sampling methodologies and potential sources of error
Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills effectively to others in the workplace.
- Demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills consistently to others in the workplace.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to demonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills effectively to others in the workplace.
- Explain the importance of demonstrating scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills effectively to others in the workplace.
Diagnose faults, repair and maintain scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Diagnose faults in scientific equipment for workplace activities
- Diagnose faults in technical equipment for workplace activities
- Repair scientific equipment for workplace activities
- Repair technical equipment for workplace activities
- Maintain scientific equipment for workplace activities
- Maintain technical equipment for workplace activities
- Describe the processes involved in diagnosing faults, repairing and maintaining scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities
- Explain the importance of diagnosing faults, repairing and maintaining scientific or technical equipment for workplace activities effectively
Evaluate and provide scientific or technical assistance for learning activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate learning activities related to scientific or technical subjects.
- Provide scientific or technical assistance to support learning activities.
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of scientific or technical learning activities.
- Understand how to provide appropriate assistance to learners engaged in scientific or technical activities.
Following aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Follow aseptic procedures correctly in the laboratory environment.
- Follow aseptic procedures consistently in the laboratory environment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to follow aseptic procedures correctly in the laboratory environment.
- Explain the importance of following aseptic procedures correctly in the laboratory environment.
Improve the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Implement improvements to the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace
- Demonstrate the ability to improve the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities
- Understand the methods for improving the quality and reliability of scientific or technical activities in the workplace
- Understand the principles of quality assurance and reliability in scientific or technical activities
Maintain and control stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain stocks of all resources for scientific or technical activities
- Maintain stocks of all equipment for scientific or technical activities
- Maintain stocks of all consumables for scientific or technical activities
- Control stocks of all resources for scientific or technical activities
- Control stocks of all equipment for scientific or technical activities
- Control stocks of all consumables for scientific or technical activities
- Describe the processes involved in maintaining and controlling stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities
- Explain the importance of maintaining and controlling stocks of all resources, equipment and consumables for scientific or technical activities effectively
Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities.
- Maintain effective and efficient working relationships for scientific or technical activities.
Maintain health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace, adhering to relevant procedures and regulations
- Maintain health and safety in a scientific or technical workplace, demonstrating an understanding of relevant legislation and best practices
Make presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Deliver presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace
- Demonstrate effective presentation skills for scientific or technical activities
- Understand the methods for creating presentations for scientific or technical activities in the workplace
- Understand the principles of effective communication in scientific or technical presentations
Measuring, weighing and preparing compounds and solutions for laboratory use Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Accurately measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for laboratory use
- Demonstrate competence in measuring, weighing and preparing compounds and solutions
- Understand the correct procedures for measuring, weighing and preparing compounds and solutions for laboratory use
- Understand the importance of accuracy and safety when measuring, weighing and preparing compounds and solutions
Plan scientific or technical sampling and testing activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan scientific or technical sampling activities
- Plan scientific or technical testing activities
- Describe the processes involved in planning scientific or technical sampling and testing activities
- Explain the importance of planning scientific or technical sampling and testing activities effectively
Provide scientific or technical leadership for a workplace team Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide scientific or technical leadership for a workplace team, ensuring effective team performance.
- Demonstrate leadership skills in a scientific or technical environment.
- Understand the principles of effective leadership within a scientific or technical team.
- Understand the importance of leadership in achieving team goals in a scientific or technical setting.
Provide technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities, communicating effectively and accurately
- Provide technical advice and guidance for scientific or technical activities, demonstrating an understanding of relevant scientific or technical principles and practices
Provide technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide technical support for computer application software for learning activities
- Provide technical support for computer equipment for learning activities
- Describe the processes involved in providing technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities
- Explain the importance of providing technical support for computer application software and equipment for learning activities effectively
Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide training for scientific or technical activities in the workplace, adhering to relevant guidelines.
- Demonstrate competence in providing training for scientific or technical activities.
- Understand the principles of effective training delivery in a scientific or technical context.
- Understand the importance of workplace training for scientific or technical activities.
Test and evaluate new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Test new scientific methods for learning activities
- Test new technical methods for learning activities
- Evaluate new scientific equipment for learning activities
- Evaluate new technical equipment for learning activities
- Describe the processes involved in testing and evaluating new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities
- Explain the importance of testing and evaluating new scientific or technical methods and equipment for learning activities effectively
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.
- Standard
01_Maintain health and safety in a biomanufacturing environment
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02_Maintain effective and efficient biomanufacturing working relationships
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03_Follow aseptic procedures in a biomanufacturing environment
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04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
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04_Improving product and process quality in laboratories
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06_Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
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10_Monitor the measuring, weighing and preparation of compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
- Standard
Assess and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel
- Standard
Assess your own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities
- Standard
Assisting with the maintenance of stocks of reagents and consumables for laboratory use
- Standard
Assure quality processes and procedures for scientific or technical activities
- Standard
Carry Out Complex Testing Operations
- Standard
Carry out complex scientific or technical sampling operations
- Standard
Carry out investigation in life sciences and related industries
- Standard
Carry out routine maintenance, cleaning and checking of scientific or technical equipment
- Standard
Carry out sampling operations in life sciences and related industries
- Standard
Carry out small scale processing
- Standard
Carry out small scale processing in life sciences and related industries
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Test Engineer
This work can lead to supervising a lab section, managing a test laboratory, or directing validation and reliability across multiple labs.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ETC Awards 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
Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnelAssess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activitiesCarry out complex scientific or technical testing operationsCarry out scientific or technical investigationsCarry out scientific or technical testing operationsCarry out small scale processingCarrying out complex scientific or technical sampling operationsDemonstrate scientific or technical methods, techniques and skills to others in the workplace
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 Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Plan scientific or technical sampling and testing activities” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Following aseptic procedures in the laboratory environment” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Evaluate and provide scientific or technical assistance for learning activities” 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
“Provide scientific or technical leadership for a workplace team” 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.
- 01_Maintain health and safety in a biomanufacturing environment
- 02_Maintain effective and efficient biomanufacturing working relationships
- 03_Follow aseptic procedures in a biomanufacturing environment
- 04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
- 04_Improving product and process quality in laboratories
- 06_Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
- 10_Monitor the measuring, weighing and preparation of compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
- Assess and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel
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 Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will learn to access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel. The unit includes identifying credible sources, using effective search strategies, evaluating information reliability, and presenting information clearly while maintaining confidentiality.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ETCAL Level 3 Diploma in Laboratory and Associated Technical Activities
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Access and communicate scientific or technical information to authorised personnel
- Assess their own scientific or technical knowledge and skills for workplace activities
- Carry out complex scientific or technical testing operations
- Carry out scientific or technical investigations
- Carry out scientific or technical testing operations
- Carry out small scale processing
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
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