ProQual Awarding Body · RQF Level 3

ProQual Level 3 Diploma in Traffic Management

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits42
  • Guided learning205 hours
  • Units in this qualification24

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Aimed at individuals working in traffic management, this diploma enables learners to develop skills in areas such as escorting vehicles, removing obstructions, and enhancing safety. The ProQual Level 3 Diploma also covers communication with the media and contributing to risk minimisation on the road network.

These are the units ProQual 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Contribute to enhancing safety and minimising risks in the workplace and on the networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit covers the principles of health and safety in workplace environments relevant to traffic management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand legal and organisational requirements relating to health and safety.
  • Know and understand the hazards and risks associated with traffic management.
  • Respond to risks and hazards on the network.
  • Respond to risks and hazards in the workplace.
Contribute to the handling of incidents on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit involves procedures and skills necessary for managing incidents on the road effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand legal and organisational requirements for handling incidents on the road network.
Control tunnel systems and equipment on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit provides learners with knowledge of tunnel systems and their features for safe operation. You'll learn to operate tunnel systems and equipment in accordance with organisational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the purpose of tunnel systems available for the safe operation of tunnels within their organisations area
  • Know the features of tunnel systems available for the safe operation of tunnels within their organisations area
  • Operate tunnel systems
  • Operate tunnel equipment
Develop working relationships with colleaguesReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll develop the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues. The unit covers communication techniques, professionalism, and collabourative problem-solving within the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the benefits of working with colleagues within the organisation.
  • Establish effective working relationships with colleagues.
  • Act in a professional and respectful manner when working with colleagues.
  • Communicate effectively with colleagues, using appropriate methods.
  • Identify potential work-related difficulties and explore solutions in collaboration with colleagues.
Equality and diversityReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit addresses the principles of equality and diversity in the workplace and their effects on individuals and society.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity.
Escort Vehicles to a place of safety on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll gain knowledge of legislation, policies, and procedures relevant to escorting vehicles on the road network. The unit covers planning routes, understanding roles and responsibilities, and safely escorting vehicles in compliance with legal requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the relevant legislation relating to escorting vehicles on the road network.
  • Know and understand the relevant policies relating to escorting vehicles on the road network.
  • Know and understand the relevant procedures relating to escorting vehicles on the road network.
  • Plan a safe and efficient route for escorting vehicles.
  • Confirm their own role and responsibilities in the vehicle escort operation.
  • Escort vehicles safely, adhering to all relevant regulations and procedures.
Establish and address requirements of callers on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll gain knowledge of organisational procedures for responding to callers on the road network. The unit develops skills to address caller requirements through effective communication and adherence to protocols.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand organisational procedures for responding to callers on the road network, including protocols for handling different types of calls and incidents.
  • Know and understand how to address the requirements of callers on the road network, including providing information, assistance, and support.
  • Deal with the requirements of callers on the road network by effectively communicating and resolving their issues.
Establish positive telephone relationshipsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit provides the skills for developing effective communication with callers in the traffic management context.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand legal and organisational requirements relating to the IT systems used in road management.
Implement tunnel emergency procedures on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll gain knowledge of tunnel emergency procedures, including relevant legislation, organisational roles, and risk management. The unit teaches you to respond effectively to incidents within and approaching tunnels, following established safety protocols.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the requirements for dealing with incidents within and on the approach to a tunnel, including relevant legislation and organisational procedures.
  • Understand the risks and hazards associated with the use of systems and equipment within a tunnel or on the immediate approach road to the tunnel during emergencies, and how to mitigate them.
  • Respond to incidents or events that may escalate to a significant incident unless properly managed, following established emergency procedures.
  • Return to normal operations at the end of an emergency, ensuring safety and efficiency.
Liaise with the media regarding operational traffic managementReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll understand organisational procedures for liaising with the media regarding operational traffic management. The unit covers effective use of media channels, adherence to guidelines, and providing accurate information to support public communication.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand organisational procedures relating to liaison with the media in the context of traffic management.
  • Make best use of the media to communicate effectively with the public.
  • Liaise with the media regarding operational traffic management issues, providing accurate and timely information.
Maintain and develop your own knowledge, skills and competenceReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit focuses on personal development and the importance of maintaining knowledge and skills relevant to traffic management roles.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles that underpin maintaining and developing own knowledge, skills and competence.
  • Maintain and develop own knowledge, skills and competence.
Manage traffic on inter urban roads using traffic management technologyReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll gain knowledge of traffic management information systems used for planned and unplanned incidents on inter-urban roads. The unit develops skills to operate automatic and manual traffic signal systems and use technology to inform road users.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the organisation’s traffic management information systems in relation to planned incidents
  • Know and understand the organisation’s traffic management information systems in relation to unplanned incidents
  • Use automatic traffic signal systems in the management of traffic flow
  • Use manual traffic signal systems in the management of traffic flow
  • Use traffic management technology to inform road users in the event of incidents on the road network
  • Use traffic management technology to inform road users in the event of events on the road network
  • Use traffic management technology to assist road users in the event of incidents on the road network
  • Use traffic management technology to assist road users in the event of events on the road network
  • Use CCTV systems to monitor traffic flow
Manage urban traffic by controlling traffic signalsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll learn to monitor urban traffic using traffic signal systems and related technologies. The unit covers analysing data to improve signal efficiency, responding to incidents, and accurately logging actions taken.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand how to monitor the road network using available systems and technologies.
  • Monitor the efficiency of traffic signal systems by analysing data and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Respond to incidents and events occurring on the road network by implementing appropriate traffic management strategies.
  • Accurately log any actions taken following the implementation of traffic procedures or signal plans, ensuring clear and concise documentation.
Monitor and respond to meteorological information on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
It teaches you to interpret meteorological information for managing road networks. You'll learn to monitor road and weather conditions and procure resources to address adverse weather impacts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the interpretation of weather information in the management of road networks
  • Monitor road conditions
  • Monitor weather conditions
  • Procure the necessary resources to deal with adverse weather conditions
Monitor the road network using CCTV systems and equipmentReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit provides learners with an understanding of legislation and organisational policies for using CCTV to monitor the road network. You'll learn to monitor and respond to incidents while complying with data protection and privacy requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the legislation, organisational policies and procedures for the use of CCTV to monitor the road network, including data protection and privacy requirements.
  • Understand the operational uses and capabilities of the organisation’s CCTV systems, including their features and limitations.
  • Monitor and respond to incidents on the road network using CCTV systems, following established procedures.
Patrol tunnels in official vehicles on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit covers the responsibilities and procedures for patrolling tunnels and managing incidents within them.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the relevant legislation, policies, and procedures for patrolling tunnels and responding to incidents.
Prepare and drive official vehicles on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit covers safety and procedures for driving official vehicles as part of traffic management operations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand the relevant legal and organisational requirements for preparing and driving official vehicles.
Preparing for the Coaching RoleReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the coaching role and preparation within an organisation. You'll learn to identify individual coaching needs, establish and maintain effective coaching relationships, review progress, and evaluate coaching effectiveness.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to coaching within the organisation.
  • Understand ways to identify individual coaching needs through observation, assessment and feedback.
  • Understand key techniques to establish and maintain an effective coaching relationship, including communication, rapport building and trust.
  • Understand how to review progress against agreed goals and objectives during the coaching process.
  • Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own coaching practice and identify areas for improvement.
Remove vehicles and obstructions from the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit deals with the legal and procedural requirements for safely removing vehicles and obstructions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal and organisational requirements relating to removal of vehicles and obstructions from the network.
Respond to Traffic Management Incidents – Bronze CommandReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit covers the legal and organisational responsibilities of managing incidents on the road network in the role of Bronze Command. You'll learn to coordinate resources and implement incident management strategies effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal and organisational requirements of taking the role of Bronze Command at incidents on the road network, including relevant legislation and emergency response procedures.
  • Manage an incident, on the road network, in the role of Bronze Command, by coordinating resources and implementing appropriate strategies.
Respond to and provide support at incidents on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit focuses on the role of traffic management personnel in supporting road users during incidents.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the requirements for responding to incidents on the road network.
Support customer service improvementsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll learn to support customer service improvements by gathering and analysing feedback, implementing changes, and assisting in the evaluation of service enhancements within an organisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use feedback from various sources to identify potential customer service improvements.
  • Implement changes to improve customer service in line with organisational procedures.
  • Assist with the evaluation of changes implemented to improve customer service, providing relevant data and observations.
  • Know and understand how to support customer service improvements within the organisation.
Use Emergency Traffic Management in addressing incidents on the road networkReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit details the implementation and management of emergency traffic measures during incidents.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand relevant legal and organisational requirements for preparing and using Emergency Traffic Management.
Use Information Technology to support effective traffic managementReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit explores the use of IT systems in traffic management, including data security and operational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know and understand legal and organisational requirements relating to the IT systems used in road management.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

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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 3 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.

Contribute to enhancing safety and minimising risks in the workplace and on the networkContribute to the handling of incidents on the road networkControl tunnel systems and equipment on the road networkDevelop working relationships with colleaguesEquality and diversityEscort Vehicles to a place of safety on the road networkEstablish and address requirements of callers on the road networkEstablish positive telephone relationships

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where 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.

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ProQual Level 3 Diploma in Traffic Management
  • Contribute to the Handling of Incidents on the Road Network
  • Control Tunnel Safety Systems
  • Escort vehicles to a place of safety
  • Establish and address requirements of callers on the road network
  • Establish positive caller relations through the effective management of calls
  • Implement Tunnel Emergency Procedures
  • Liaise with the media regarding operational traffic management
  • Manage Inter-Urban Traffic Using Traffic Management Technology
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

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.

Contribute to the Handling of Incidents on the Road NetworkControl Tunnel Safety SystemsEscort vehicles to a place of safetyEstablish and address requirements of callers on the road networkEstablish positive caller relations through the effective management of callsImplement Tunnel Emergency ProceduresLiaise with the media regarding operational traffic managementManage Inter-Urban Traffic Using Traffic Management TechnologyManage urban traffic by controlling traffic signalsMonitor the road network using CCTV systems and equipmentPatrol tunnels using official vehiclesPrepare and drive official vehiclesRespond to and provide support at incidents on the road networkSupport customer service improvementsUse IT to support effective road management

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Contribute to enhancing safety and minimising risks in the workplace and on the networkLevel 3

Applied to your own work

This unit covers the principles of health and safety in workplace environments relevant to traffic management.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for ProQual Level 3 Diploma in Traffic Management

24 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.

  1. Contribute to enhancing safety and minimising risks in the workplace and on the network
  2. Contribute to the handling of incidents on the road network
  3. Control tunnel systems and equipment on the road network
  4. Develop working relationships with colleagues
  5. Equality and diversity
  6. Escort Vehicles to a place of safety on the road network

and 18 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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.

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