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- The centre assesses, and Occupational Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Occupational Awards Limited.
This qualification develops and confirms a graded level of performance for Food and Drink Technologists, equipping them with the necessary skills and knowledge for effective roles in food and drink processing or manufacturing operations.
These are the units Occupational 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 Occupational Awards Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. Occupational 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
Conduct quality and sensory evaluation in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct sensory analyses for product quality.
Contribute to HACCP management in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Implement HACCP systems in food production.
Contribute to continuous improvement in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Support continuous improvement initiatives in food production.
Contribute to food safety management in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Implement food safety practices in operations.
Contribute to health, safety and environmental management in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Implement health and safety management systems in food operations.
Contribute to product development and costing in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand costing processes in product development.
Contribute to technical and quality management in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Support quality management processes in food operations.
Develop self and maintain professional relationships in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Build and maintain professional relationships in food operations.
Interpret and analyse data in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Use data for continuous improvement in food operations.
Principles of food science for food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic principles of food chemistry.
Principles of microbiology for food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify common food pathogens and their hygiene relevance.
Principles of raw materials and storage in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of raw materials management.
Principles of regulation and the food and drink supply chain Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and regulations in the food and drink industry.
Principles of technology for food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of technology in food processing.
Resolve technical and quality problems in food and drink operations Real unit · Occupational Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise problem-solving techniques in food production.
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
Analyse and Interpret Data in Science or Technology Related Industries
- Standard
Control the sensory assessment of food and drink
- Standard
Principles of Vitamin Biochemistry in Food Science
- Standard
Principles of controlling biological food hazards in food and drink operations
- Standard
Principles of food science in food technology
- Standard
Set up and manage facilities for the sensory assessment of food and drink
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Occupational 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
Conduct quality and sensory evaluation in food and drink operationsContribute to HACCP management in food and drink operationsContribute to continuous improvement in food and drink operationsContribute to food safety management in food and drink operationsContribute to health, safety and environmental management in food and drink operationsContribute to product development and costing in food and drink operationsContribute to technical and quality management in food and drink operationsDevelop self and maintain professional relationships in food and drink operations
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 “Contribute to continuous improvement in food and drink operations” 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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Conduct quality and sensory evaluation in food and drink operations” 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
“Contribute to HACCP management in food and drink operations” 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.
- Analyse and Interpret Data in Science or Technology Related Industries
- Control the sensory assessment of food and drink
- Principles of Vitamin Biochemistry in Food Science
- Principles of controlling biological food hazards in food and drink operations
- Principles of food science in food technology
- Set up and manage facilities for the sensory assessment of food and drink
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 Conduct quality and sensory evaluation in food and drink operations, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Methods for conducting sensory evaluations to assess food quality.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OAL Level 3 Diploma in Food Technology
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Occupational Awards Limited.
- Conduct quality and sensory evaluation in food and drink operations
- Contribute to HACCP management in food and drink operations
- Contribute to continuous improvement in food and drink operations
- Contribute to food safety management in food and drink operations
- Contribute to health, safety and environmental management in food and drink operations
- Contribute to product development and costing in food and drink operations
and 9 more in the full unit list below.
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