How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer PIABC Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and PIABC Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from PIABC Ltd.

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01What it is

A specialist awarding body offering regulated qualifications, end point assessment and quality assurance services in the materials cycle

These are the units PIABC Ltd 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 PIABC Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. PIABC Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Packaging Materials Real unit · PIABC Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of key packaging performance characteristics and how product and environmental factors influence packaging requirements, enabling justification of appropriate packaging formats and materials.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the performance characteristics required from packaging
  • Justify the format and materials which will provide the required performance characteristics
Packaging Operations Real unit · PIABC Ltd
You'll gain an understanding of packaging operations, including methods of metreing products for filling, processes for filling and sealing packs, preparation for distribution, and assessment of filled pack quality.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how products are metered for filling
  • Understand how packs are filled, sealed and prepared for distribution
  • Understand how the quality of filled packs can be assessed
Packaging Roles & Functions Real unit · PIABC Ltd
You'll understand the roles and functions of packaging, including its selling function, contribution to branding and marketing, protection of products during transport and storage, extension of shelf life, and compliance with legal labelling requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the selling function of packaging
  • Understand how packaging can maintain the value of products
  • Understand the role and function of packaging
03The standards

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.

  • Select packaging materials for food and drink product development

    Standard
04Where it leads

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.

Where this can lead

Associate Packaging Technician

This role builds the groundwork for packaging work. It can lead to roles such as Senior Packaging Specialist or Lead Packaging Engineer.

See the whole journey
05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by PIABC Ltd 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

Packaging MaterialsPackaging OperationsPackaging Roles & Functions

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 Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Rather than work through “Packaging Materials” in the abstract, bring me the piece of it you are dealing with this week.
You I have got the write-up due Friday and I have not started it.
The Coach Then that is the lesson. Tell me what it has to say, and we will get the shape of it down before we worry about the words.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring the real thing Apply

    “Packaging Materials” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.

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 Packaging Materials, one of this qualification's own units.

Packaging Materials Level 2

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit provides learners with knowledge of key packaging performance characteristics and how product and environmental factors influence packaging requirements, enabling justification of appropriate packaging formats and materials.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for PIABC Level 2 Award in Packaging Technology

3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by PIABC Ltd.

  1. Packaging Materials
  2. Packaging Operations
  3. Packaging Roles & Functions
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.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.