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These are the units CABWI Awarding Body 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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Waste Water - Asset Management Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of asset lifecycles within the context of waste water management.
- Understand the purpose and application of asset management systems in the waste water industry.
- Understand the various methods and sources used to finance water industry assets, including waste water treatment infrastructure.
- Understand the strategies and techniques employed to maintain the performance of waste water treatment assets, ensuring operational efficiency and compliance.
Waste Water - Nuisance Control Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of nuisance control processes in wastewater treatment.
- Understand the operation of nuisance control processes, including the equipment and techniques used.
- Understand how to investigate faults in nuisance control processes and implement appropriate corrective actions.
- Understand the optimisation methods used to improve nuisance control and the effectiveness of nuisance control processes.
- Undertake wastewater nuisance control processes, demonstrating practical skills and knowledge.
Waste Water - Primary Treatment Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of primary treatment of waste water and its objectives
- Understand the purpose and operation of plant and equipment used in primary treatment of waste water
- Understand how to investigate faults and take corrective action for plant and equipment used in primary treatment of waste water
- Understand the optimisation of primary waste water treatment processes to improve efficiency
- Undertake Primary Treatment processes in accordance with established procedures and safety guidelines
Waste Water - Regulation and Compliance Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the UK water supply regulatory framework and its key components
- Understand regulatory performance measures used in the water industry
- Understand how regulation impacts the operational activities within a water company
- Understand the relevant health and safety regulations pertaining to the water industry
Waste Water - Understanding Sludge Digestion Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of anaerobic sludge digestion processes
- Understand the function and operational characteristics of the main systems and processes involved in sludge digestion
- Understand how to investigate faults and implement corrective actions for sludge digestion systems
- Understand the optimisation methods used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of sludge digestion
Waste Water – Activated Sludge Processes Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of activated sludge processes in wastewater treatment.
- Understand the purpose and operation of the main components, including plant and equipment, used in activated sludge treatment systems.
- Understand how to investigate faults within activated sludge systems and determine appropriate corrective actions to resolve them.
- Understand the methods used to optimise activated sludge processes for improved performance and efficiency.
- Undertake activated sludge processes, demonstrating practical application of knowledge and skills in a wastewater treatment context.
Waste Water – Fixed Film Biological Treatment Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of fixed film biological treatment in wastewater treatment.
- Understand the purpose and operation of plant and equipment used in fixed biological filtration systems.
- Understand how to investigate faults within fixed film biological filtration systems and determine appropriate corrective actions.
- Understand the optimisation methods used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of fixed film biological filtration processes.
- Undertake fixed film biological treatment processes, demonstrating practical application of knowledge and skills.
Waste Water – Nutrient Removal Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of nutrient removal from wastewater.
- Understand the various processes and operations involved in nutrient removal, including their purpose and application.
- Understand how to investigate faults within nutrient removal processes and determine appropriate corrective actions.
- Understand the different optimisation methods used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of nutrient removal processes.
- Undertake nutrient removal from wastewater processes, demonstrating practical application of knowledge and skills.
Waste Water – Preliminary Treatment Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the preliminary treatment process of waste water and its objectives
- Understand the purpose and operation of plant and equipment used in preliminary treatment of waste water
- Understand how to investigate faults and take corrective action for plant and equipment used in preliminary treatment of waste water
- Understand the optimisation of preliminary waste water treatment processes to improve efficiency
- Undertake Preliminary Treatment processes in accordance with established procedures and safety guidelines
Waste Water – Pumping Stations Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and operational mechanisms of waste water pumping and flow systems
- Understand how to diagnose faults and implement effective corrective actions in waste water pumping stations
- Understand the factors influencing the efficiency and reliability of waste water pumping operations
- Undertake practical waste water pumping station operations in accordance with established procedures
Waste Water – Sludge Digestion Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of anaerobic sludge digestion in wastewater treatment.
- Understand the function and operation of the main systems and processes involved in sludge digestion, including their purpose and application.
- Understand how to investigate faults within sludge digestion systems and determine appropriate corrective actions.
- Understand the optimisation methods used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of sludge digestion processes.
- Undertake sludge digestion processes, demonstrating practical application of knowledge and skills.
Waste Water – Sludge Treatment and Recycling Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles underpinning sludge treatment and recycling processes in the waste water industry.
- Understand the specific processes and operational procedures involved in the primary sludge disposal and recycling routes commonly used in the UK.
- Understand how to systematically investigate faults or malfunctions within sludge treatment and recycling systems, and implement appropriate corrective actions to resolve the issues.
- Understand the methods and strategies for optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of sludge treatment and recycling operations.
- Undertake practical waste water sludge treatment processes, demonstrating competence in applying relevant techniques and procedures.
Waste Water – Small Works and Package Plants Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of sewage treatment using small works and package plants
- Understand the operational procedures involved in small works and package plants
- Understand how to effectively investigate faults and implement appropriate corrective actions for small works and package plants
- Understand the various optimisation methods employed to enhance the performance of small works and package plants
Waste Water – Tertiary Treatment Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underlying tertiary treatment processes
- Understand the purpose and operational characteristics of plant and equipment used in tertiary treatment
- Understand how to investigate faults and implement corrective actions for tertiary treatment systems
- Understand the methods for optimising tertiary treatment processes to achieve desired outcomes
- Undertake practical tertiary treatment processes in accordance with established procedures and safety guidelines
Waste Water– Science and Applied Mathematics Real unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the mathematical techniques commonly applied in waste water treatment processes
- Understand the chemical and physical characteristics of waste water and their significance
- Understand the microbiological characteristics of waste water and their implications for treatment
- Understand the environmental impact associated with the waste water industry and mitigation strategies
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
Develop, implement and monitor strategic plans to minimise risk from contamination and other non-compliance situations
- Standard
Educate and Increase Stakeholders’ Knowledge of Water Fittings Compliance Requirements
- Standard
Educate, guide and enforce to secure water fittings compliance with legislation
- Standard
Use discussion, advice and education and secure compliance with water fittings regulations and byelaws Legacy
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 8 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Associate Water Compliance Coordinator
This role gives a grounding in environmental compliance and water management, with room to take on more complex projects over time.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by CABWI Awarding Body 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
Waste Water - Asset ManagementWaste Water - Nuisance ControlWaste Water - Primary TreatmentWaste Water - Regulation and ComplianceWaste Water - Understanding Sludge DigestionWaste Water – Activated Sludge ProcessesWaste Water – Fixed Film Biological TreatmentWaste Water – Nutrient Removal
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 “Waste Water – Small Works and Package Plants” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Waste Water - Asset Management” 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.
- 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
- Use discussion, advice and education and secure compliance with water fittings regulations and byelaws Legacy
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 Waste Water - Asset Management, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will explore asset management principles within the waste water industry, including asset lifecycles, management systems, and financing. The unit emphasises maintaining asset performance to ensure the sustainability and efficiency of waste water infrastructure.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for CABWI Level 3 Diploma in Waste Water Treatment
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by CABWI Awarding Body.
- Waste Water - Asset Management
- Waste Water - Nuisance Control
- Waste Water - Primary Treatment
- Waste Water - Regulation and Compliance
- Waste Water - Understanding Sludge Digestion
- Waste Water – Activated Sludge Processes
and 9 more in the full unit list below.
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