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- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ETC Awards Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and ETC Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ETC Awards Limited.
ETCAL Level 1 Certificate in Introduction to Lean Techniques provides foundational knowledge and skills in lean techniques and principles for effective workforce performance.
These are the units ETC 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with ETC Awards Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. ETC Awards Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Fundamentals of continuous improvement Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and identify where waste may be present
- Understand waste minimisation techniques in a working environment
- Understand how 5S can contribute towards workplace improvements
- Understand visual management and its impact in the workplace
- Understand standardised processes and how they are communicated
Health and Safety Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the responsibilities for health and safety at work
- Understand the causes of accidents at work
- Identify and select personal protective equipment (PPE) required to complete tasks in the workplace
- Know the importance of working safely at height in the workplace
- Know the principles of risk assessment and their importance to health and safety at work
- Understand causes of fire and when fire extinguishers should be used
- Know the potential risks to health of substances in the working environment
Problem Solving Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify problems
- Understand the impact problems can cause
- Understand why these problems may have occurred
- Understand the benefits of solving problems in a structured way
- Demonstrate the skills required to work with others to solve problems
- Review proposed solutions to problems in a structured way
Understanding the Industry Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the identified industry / sector
- Understand the different types of career opportunities available in the sector
- Know about different types of organisations offering career opportunities
- Understand how career choices can impact upon an individual’s lifestyle
- Work in a sustainable manner within the chosen sector
- Make informed career choices
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
EHS Coordinator
This role can lead to work as a Senior EHS Specialist, a Site EHS Manager, or a Regional EHS Manager.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ETC 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
Fundamentals of continuous improvementHealth and SafetyProblem SolvingUnderstanding the Industry
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 “Fundamentals of continuous improvement” 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
“Problem Solving” 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.
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 Fundamentals of continuous improvement, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit introduces learners to the knowledge and basic skills required to understand and contribute towards continuous improvement techniques in the workplace.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ETCAL Level 1 Certificate of Introduction to Lean Techniques
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Fundamentals of continuous improvement
- Health and Safety
- Problem Solving
- Understanding the Industry
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