MP Awards · RQF Level 2
MPQC Level 2 Diploma in Concrete Products Manufacture
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits94
- Guided learning440 hours
- Units in this qualification43
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.
An Introduction to Health and Safety PrinciplesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the company's fundamental Health and Safety rules, systems and procedures.
- Understand the importance of good housekeeping and own Health and Safety needs.
Appreciation of Felt Leadership PrinciplesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand felt leadership principles.
Appreciation of Hazardous SubstancesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards associated with the handling, storage and use of hazardous substances, and the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) assessment process.
- Safely handle and use hazardous substances.
- Understand the hazards and control measures associated with dust.
Appreciation of Machinery Guarding PrinciplesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards associated with the moving parts of machinery and the importance of a hierarchy of machinery guarding principles.
- Carry out inspections of machinery guarding.
Appreciation of the Constituent Parts of Concrete MixesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how different materials and constituents can affect concrete.
- Understand admixtures in concrete.
- Understand concrete products reinforcements and the procedures and materials used.
- Understand Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA).
Assessment of Manual Handling ActivitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of manual handling activities and the potential for injury.
- Contribute to a manual handling risk assessment.
Awareness of Environmental PollutionReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to control and prevent different types of pollution.
Awareness of Safe Mobile Plant OperationReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards and risks associated with the operation of mobile plant.
- Identify the safety features for an item of mobile plant.
- Understand the site control measures that ensure the safe operation of mobile plant.
Awareness of the Impact of Greenhouse Gas EmissionsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact on the environment of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Understand the company plans for the management of carbon.
Changing Flag and Kerb MouldageReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to remove and install moulds.
- Understand the requirements of the press head and carrier.
- Adjust the removal of product from mouldage.
- Understand how to remove, install and adjust product handling equipment.
- Understand how to adjust the concrete dispensing system.
- Understand how to verify a successful changeover.
Fire and Injury Control MeasuresReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to respond appropriately in emergency situations.
- Understand how to prevent fires occurring and the functionality of different types of fire extinguishers.
Health and Safety Inspections and AuditingReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of pre-start, periodic and statutory inspections.
- Carry out daily inspections.
- Understand the importance of the auditing process (safety tours).
Housekeeping and Spillage ControlReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of housekeeping standards.
- Conform to housekeeping standards.
- Understand the need for controlling spillage.
- Understand the value of good spares and equipment availability.
Identifying Risks and Control MeasuresReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the risk assessment process.
- Understand the permit to work system.
- Understand the hazards associated with lone working.
Incident Control and Investigation AwarenessReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of incident that could be encountered on site, the reporting procedures and prevention measures.
Introduction to Site Water ManagementReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the site water management process.
Isolation and Lock-Off ProceduresReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand isolation and lock-off procedures for plant and machinery.
- Carry out isolation and lock-off procedures for plant and machinery.
- Understand the role of a person who would be in control of an isolation event.
Lifting Operations in Concrete Products ManufactureReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards associated with lifting operations and using lifting equipment.
- Contribute to lifting operations.
Loading and Unloading a Vehicle with Concrete ProductsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Complete a pre-use check on mobile plant.
- Understand how weather conditions may impact driving style.
- Complete loading and unloading procedures.
Manufactured Concrete Product PackagingReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the correct operation of out-feed packaging.
- Complete a pre-start check.
- Understand how to check produts being manufactured.
- Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Manufacturing Concrete Products on a Flag and Kerb PressReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process sections.
- Complete a process pre-start check.
- Set and record the production requirements.
- Make the correct process adjustments for the product being manufactured.
- Understand how to check products being manufactured.
- Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (i.e. OEE)
Manufacturing Concrete Products on a Gang Moulding ProcessReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process sections.
- Complete a pre-start check.
- Set and record the production requirements.
- Make the correct process adjustments for the product being manufactured.
- Understand how to check products being manufactured.
- Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Understand how to control rejects and make corrective actions.
Manufacturing Concrete Products on a Manual Wet Cast ProcessReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process sections.
- Complete a pre-start check.
- Set and record the production requirements.
- Make the correct adjustments for the product.
- Understand how to check products being manufactured.
- Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Understand how to control rejects and make corrective actions.
Manufacturing Concrete Products on a Semi-Dry ProcessReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different process sections.
- Complete a process pre-start check.
- Set and record the production requirements.
- Make the correct process adjustments for the product being manufactured.
- Understand how to check products being manufactured.
- Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (i.e. OEE).
Manufacturing Concrete Products on an Automated Wet Cast ProcessReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process sections.
- Complete a pre-start check.
- Set and record the production requirements.
- Make the correct process adjustments for the product being manufactured.
- Understand how to check products being manufactured.
- Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (i.e. OEE).
Mixing and Batching Concrete for Concrete ProductsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the batching process.
- Understand the mixing process.
- Operate the material weighing system.
- Operate the concrete mixing system.
Operating Requirements for Workplace TransportReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main principles of the workplace transport procedures.
- Understand the procedures for pedestrians in areas where vehicles may be operating.
Personal Exposure and Control of NoiseReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the dangers of exposure to excessive noise.
- Apply and work with measures that control exposure to noise.
Preparation of Flag and Kerb MouldageReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of mouldage.
- Prepare flag and kerb mouldage.
- Understand the mouldage components.
Preparing for the Safe Use of Electrical EquipmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards associated with electrically powered equipment and different voltage ratings.
- Carry out pre-use checks on portable electrical appliances.
- Understand how to appropriately react when someone receives an electrical shock.
Principles for Identification and Disposal of WasteReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of waste that can potentially be generated and disposed of on site in accordance with the waste management plan.
Product Sampling and Quality ComplianceReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the important factors and procedures when obtaining a site sample of a product.
- Understand the important factors and procedures when obtaining a witness sample of a product.
- Understand why both types of sampling are required.
- Understand the importance of the ISO 9001 Standard.
Receipt and Storage of Raw MaterialsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to receive aggregate deliveries.
- Understand how to receive bulk powder deliveries.
- Understand how to correctly store aggregates and bulk powders.
- Understand the reason for quality standards for aggregates and bulk powders.
Requirements for Induction and Site SecurityReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand when an induction is required.
- Understand the arrangements in place for site security.
Routine Maintenance of Plant and EquipmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to carry out routine maintenance on plant and equipment.
- Carry out routine maintenance on plant and equipment.
- Understand the importance of routine maintenance on plant and equipment.
- Understand the health and safety considerations for carrying out operator routine maintenance and inspections.
Safe Use of Hand ToolsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the safe use of hand tools.
- Understand the safe use of hand-held powered tools.
Safe Working at Height Procedures and EquipmentReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Undertand the hazards associated with working at height and the associated hierarchy.
- Understand how to use equipment associated with working at height safely.
Safety Awareness in Restricted or Confined SpacesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards associated with restricted or confined spaces.
- Understand how to work in restricted or confined spaces.
Secondary Processing of Concrete ProductsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different process sections.
- Complete a pre-start check.
- Set and record the production requirements.
- Make the correct process adjustments for the product being manufactured.
- Understand how to check products being manufactured.
- Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Understand how to control rejects and make corrective actions.
The Importance of Welfare FacilitiesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for the provision and maintenance of welfare facilities.
- Understand the effects on health of lack of or provision of poor welfare facilities.
Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)Real unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for standard and non-standard PPE used or worn around the site.
- Select and wear appropriate PPE for the task.
Working with Robots in Concrete Products ManufactureReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Operate a robot within concrete products manufacture.
- Understand the function of a robot within concrete products manufacture.
Yard Stacking Concrete ProductsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Complete a pre-use check on mobile plant.
- Understand how weather conditions may impact driving style.
- Select a bay for product stacking.
- Understand how to correctly identify the product.
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 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
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.
Where this can lead
Safety Audit Associate
Your journey starts here, learning the foundational elements of keeping people safe. With dedication and a keen eye, you'll build a career that truly makes a difference, moving from supporting individual audits to shaping our entire safety assurance strategy. It won't always be easy, but it will be rewarding.
See the whole journey →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 work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for MPQC Level 2 Diploma in Concrete Products Manufacture
43 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- An Introduction to Health and Safety Principles
- Appreciation of Felt Leadership Principles
- Appreciation of Hazardous Substances
- Appreciation of Machinery Guarding Principles
- Appreciation of the Constituent Parts of Concrete Mixes
- Assessment of Manual Handling Activities
and 37 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.