How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- 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.
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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.
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.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand personal safety and hygiene practices as they relate to the organisation and the specific working environment within the laboratory.
- Understand the correct procedure to be followed in the event of an accident or incident within the laboratory environment.
- Understand the approved method for obtaining safety reference data, including safety data sheets (SDS) and other relevant documentation.
- Understand the principles of risk assessment and how it applies to the individual's role and the overall working environment in the laboratory.
- Understand the correct procedures for the segregation and safe disposal of different types of laboratory waste, including hazardous materials.
- Understand the relevant health, safety and environmental legislation that applies to laboratory work.
- Know the local health and safety instructions and emergency procedures specific to the laboratory.
Laboratory Measurement Techniques Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to measure mass correctly using appropriate weighing equipment and techniques.
- Understand how to calibrate and maintain laboratory equipment to ensure accurate measurements.
- Understand how to measure volume correctly using appropriate volumetric glassware and techniques.
- Understand how to measure temperature correctly using appropriate thermometers and temperature sensors.
- Understand how to measure pH correctly using pH meters and indicators.
Routine Laboratory Housekeeping Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Create and maintain good housekeeping practices in a laboratory environment.
- Clean laboratory apparatus correctly and safely, using appropriate cleaning agents and techniques.
- Connect laboratory apparatus to other apparatus and to services correctly and safely, following established procedures.
- Understand how to store laboratory equipment, apparatus and materials correctly and safely, in accordance with relevant regulations.
- Understand how to transport laboratory equipment, apparatus and materials correctly and safely, minimising the risk of damage or spillage.
Routine Laboratory Procedures Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare simple solutions correctly and safely, following established protocols and safety guidelines.
- Understand the importance and role of written documentation within the laboratory, including standard operating procedures (SOPs), experimental protocols, and record-keeping.
- Understand the safe use and day-to-day care of laboratory heating and cooling equipment, including hotplates, ovens, and refrigerators.
- Understand the safe use and day-to-day care of laboratory equipment used for mixing and separating substances, including centrifuges, stirrers, and filtration apparatus.
Support for Laboratory Techniques and Practice Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to utilise all available means of communication effectively within the laboratory setting, including verbal, written, and electronic methods.
- Understand how to organise work activities efficiently to ensure tasks are completed in a timely and effective manner.
- Understand how to manage resources effectively, including equipment, materials, and time, to optimise laboratory operations.
- Understand how to keep and maintain accurate and up-to-date records of laboratory activities, experiments, and results.
- Understand how to collect and utilise information from various sources to support laboratory techniques and practice.
The Laboratory as a Working Environment Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the formal and informal channels of communication within the organisation and how to use them effectively.
- Know the purpose and function of the equipment and apparatus commonly used in a laboratory setting.
- Understand how to use a stock control system to manage laboratory supplies and materials.
- Understand how to carry out general laboratory instructions and procedures accurately and safely.
- Understand the types of reports required in a laboratory and how to complete them accurately.
- Understand security and access requirements for the laboratory and the importance of adhering to them.
Use of Laboratory Services Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to use the mains gas/ Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) services safely.
- Understand how to connect and disconnect gas cylinders safely.
- Understand how to use the water services correctly and safely.
- Understand how to operate vacuum systems correctly and safely.
- Understand how to use a fume cupboard effectively and safely.
- Understand how to control heating, lighting and ventilation services within the laboratory.
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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.
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01_Maintaining health and safety in a laboratory environment
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04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
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07_Designing and conducting toxicity studies, and evaluating results
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12_Maintaining cell lines for laboratory activities using cryogenic storage
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15_Assisting with the Preparation of Solutions for Laboratory Use
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Assisting with the routine maintenance, cleaning, disinfecting and calibration of laboratory equipment
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Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities
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Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for laboratory use
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Writing Laboratory Technical Reports
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
Associate Laboratory Safety Technician
This work can lead to senior laboratory safety specialist roles, or on to principal EHS specialist positions in research and development.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 2 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
Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the LaboratoryLaboratory Measurement TechniquesRoutine Laboratory HousekeepingRoutine Laboratory ProceduresSupport for Laboratory Techniques and PracticeThe Laboratory as a Working EnvironmentUse of Laboratory Services
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.
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You do “Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory” 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.
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_Maintaining health and safety in a laboratory environment
- 04_Communicating laboratory information to authorised personnel under supervision
- 07_Designing and conducting toxicity studies, and evaluating results
- 12_Maintaining cell lines for laboratory activities using cryogenic storage
- 15_Assisting with the Preparation of Solutions for Laboratory Use
- Assisting with the routine maintenance, cleaning, disinfecting and calibration of laboratory equipment
- Clean and tidy the workplace after scientific or technical learning activities
- Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for laboratory use
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 Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers health, safety, and environmental procedures within a labouratory setting. Learners will understand personal safety and hygiene, accident procedures, safety reference data, and risk assessment relevant to their role and working environment.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ETCAL Level 2 Certificate In Laboratory Technical Skills
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Health, Safety and Environmental Procedures in the Laboratory
- Laboratory Measurement Techniques
- Routine Laboratory Housekeeping
- Routine Laboratory Procedures
- Support for Laboratory Techniques and Practice
- The Laboratory as a Working Environment
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
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