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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer CIWM has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and CIWM awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from CIWM.
The CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 4 Certificate is aimed at individuals working in the waste and resource management sector. It covers the principles and practices of managing various waste treatment processes, including thermal treatment and land remediation. The qualification also addresses stakeholder communication and non-legislative requirements.
These are the units CIWM 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 CIWM. It does the teaching and the mapping. CIWM 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
Environmental protection in the waste and resource management industry Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the systems required to protect the environment and ensure compliance with an environmental permit for waste and resource management activities.
- Understand how to assess the potential environmental impact of work activities and how to implement measures to minimise these impacts.
- Understand the legal and organisational requirements for managing the risk of fires on site, including prevention, detection, and response procedures.
- Understand the potential environmental and amenity impacts of waste and resource management activities, such as noise, odour, dust, and water pollution.
Health and safety in the waste and resource management industry Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Know the main requirements of health and safety legislation relevant to the waste and resource management industry.
- Understand the common hazards, associated risks, appropriate control measures, and monitoring procedures within a waste and resource management environment.
- Understand the principles of accident investigation and the correct procedures for reporting accidents in the waste and resource management industry.
- Understand the practices for controlling the safety of contractors and other site users within a waste and resource management facility.
- Understand safe working practices to control the use of vehicles, plant, and equipment on site.
- Understand the requirement for permits to work and their application within a waste and resource management facility.
Legislation for the operation of a waste management facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the regulatory framework and policies relevant to waste and resource management facilities
- Understand the requirements of planning legislation as applied to the waste and resource management industry
- Understand the requirements of permitting legislation as applied to the waste and resource management industry
- Understand the legislation and policies relevant to responsibilities within the waste and resource management industry
- Understand the regulatory framework relevant to waste and resource management facilities
- Understand the definition and classification of waste and the use of waste acceptance procedures in the waste and resources industry
Principles and practices of managing a WEEE Facility. Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how waste is received or rejected at a WEEE facility
- Understand the principles of WEEE treatment at an Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF)
- Understand the principles of reuse in relation to WEEE
- Understand the requirements for hazardous wastes at a WEEE facility
- Understand the requirements for exporting WEEE
- Understand the hazards associated with managing a WEEE facility
- Understand the technical benefits and environmental benefits of WEEE Treatment
Principles and practices of managing a biological treatment processing facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how waste is received or rejected at a biological treatment facility
- Understand the principles of open windrow composting as a biological treatment process
- Understand the principles of in-vessel composting as a biological treatment process
- Understand the principles of anaerobic digestion as a biological treatment process
- Understand the technical benefits, environmental benefits and problems associated with biological treatment processes
- Understand what emissions, products and residual wastes are associated with biological treatment processes and how these can be managed
Principles and practices of managing a hazardous waste storage and transfer facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how waste is received at a hazardous waste storage and transfer facility.
- Understand how waste is rejected at a hazardous waste storage and transfer facility.
- Understand the principles of hazardous waste storage.
- Understand the principles of hazardous waste transfer.
- Understand the hazards associated with hazardous waste storage.
- Understand the hazards associated with hazardous waste transfer.
- Understand what emissions are associated with hazardous waste storage and transfer and how these can be managed.
Principles and practices of managing a mechanical biological treatment facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the procedures for receiving waste at a mechanical biological treatment facility
- Explain the reasons for rejecting waste at a mechanical biological treatment facility
- Explain the principles of mechanical biological treatment at a waste and resources treatment facility
- Analyse the technical benefits associated with mechanical biological treatment methods
- Analyse the environmental benefits associated with mechanical biological treatment methods
- Analyse the problems associated with mechanical biological treatment methods
- Evaluate the factors that may limit the uptake of mechanical biological treatment methods
- Identify the emissions associated with mechanical biological treatment processes
- Identify the products associated with mechanical biological treatment processes
- Identify the residual wastes associated with mechanical biological treatment processes and how these can be managed
Principles and practices of managing a metals recycling facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the procedures for receiving waste at a metals recycling facility
- Explain the reasons for rejecting waste at a metals recycling facility
- Explain the principles of metals recycling at a waste and resources treatment facility
- Analyse the environmental benefits associated with metals recycling
- Analyse the environmental hazards associated with metals recycling
- Identify the emissions associated with metals recycling processes and how these can be managed
- Identify the residual waste associated with metals recycling processes and how these can be managed
Principles and practices of managing a physical treatment processing facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the procedures for receiving waste at a physical treatment facility
- Explain the reasons for rejecting waste at a physical treatment facility
- Explain the principles of physical treatment at a waste and resources treatment facility
- Identify the emissions associated with physical treatment methods and how these can be managed
- Identify the products associated with physical treatment methods and how these can be managed
- Identify the residual wastes associated with physical treatment methods and how these can be managed
- Analyse the technical benefits associated with physical treatment methods
- Analyse the environmental benefits associated with physical treatment methods
- Analyse the problems associated with physical treatment methods
- Evaluate the factors that may limit the uptake of physical treatment methods
Principles and practices of managing a thermal treatment processing facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of thermal treatment at a waste and resources treatment facility.
- Understand how waste is received at a thermal treatment facility.
- Understand how waste is rejected at a thermal treatment facility.
- Understand what emissions are associated with thermal treatment methods.
- Understand what products are associated with thermal treatment methods.
- Understand what residual wastes are associated with thermal treatment methods and how these can be managed.
- Understand the technical benefits associated with thermal treatment methods.
- Understand the environmental benefits associated with thermal treatment methods.
- Understand the problems associated with thermal treatment methods.
- Understand the factors that may limit the uptake of thermal treatment methods.
Principles and practices of managing an end of life vehicle facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procedures for receiving or rejecting waste at an end-of-life vehicle facility, including relevant documentation and checks.
- Understand the principles of dismantling and depollution processes at an end-of-life vehicle facility, including the order of operations and equipment used.
- Understand the health, safety, and environmental benefits and hazards associated with dismantling and depollution processes of end-of-life vehicles.
- Understand what pollutants and residual wastes are generated during dismantling and depollution processes and how these can be effectively managed, stored, and disposed of.
Principles and practices of managing an inert landfill Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of environmental permitting in relation to the design, construction and operation of inert landfills.
- Understand the definition of inert waste and identify different types of inert waste.
- Understand the requirements for waste treatment and testing procedures applicable to inert waste.
- Understand the potential environmental and amenity impacts associated with inert landfill sites and how these impacts can be effectively managed.
- Understand the requirements for site closure, aftercare procedures, and permit surrender processes for inert landfills.
Principles and practices of managing land remediation activities Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the circumstances for which land remediation activities take place.
- Understand the legislative requirements for land remediation activities.
- Understand the role of environmental permit conditions in forming the framework for land remediation activities.
- Understand the definition of waste relating to land remediation activities.
- Understand the principles employed in the selection of different techniques for remediation of land affected by contamination.
- Understand the principles employed in the use of different techniques for remediation of land affected by contamination.
- Understand the environmental impacts associated with land remediation activities.
Principles and practices of managing land spreading activities Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative requirements for land spreading activities
- Understand how waste is received or rejected in relation to land spreading activities
- Understand the principles of land spreading
- Understand the hazards associated with land spreading activities
- Understand what emissions and residual waste are associated with land spreading activities and how these can be managed
Principles of sustainable waste and resource management Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of sustainable waste and resource management
- Understand the waste hierarchy and its application in sustainable waste and resource management
- Understand the principles and procedures of waste and resource transfer and treatment facilities
Stakeholder communication and other non-legislative factors affecting the waste and resource management industry Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and understand the roles of key stakeholders within the waste and resources management sector.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the regulators working within the waste and resources management sector.
- Understand how non-legislative factors, such as public perception and economic drivers, affect changes in waste and resource management practices.
- Understand operator responsibilities for data collection, reporting procedures, data storage, and data retention in relation to a waste and resources management facility.
- Understand the skills and training requirements for various roles within waste operations.
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
Communicate with customers in the waste resource management industry
- Standard
Depollute End of Life Vehicles
- Standard
Maintain, develop and share expertise and knowledge about waste resource management and sustainability
- Standard
Manage the environmental impact of waste resource management activity
The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by CIWM 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
Environmental protection in the waste and resource management industryHealth and safety in the waste and resource management industryLegislation for the operation of a waste management facilityPrinciples and practices of managing a WEEE Facility.Principles and practices of managing a biological treatment processing facilityPrinciples and practices of managing a hazardous waste storage and transfer facilityPrinciples and practices of managing a mechanical biological treatment facilityPrinciples and practices of managing a metals recycling facility
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 · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Principles and practices of managing land remediation activities” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Environmental protection in the waste and resource management industry” 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
“Health and safety in the waste and resource management industry” 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.
- Communicate with customers in the waste resource management industry
- Depollute End of Life Vehicles
- Maintain, develop and share expertise and knowledge about waste resource management and sustainability
- Manage the environmental impact of waste resource management activity
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 Environmental protection in the waste and resource management industry, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to understand environmental protection systems and compliance with environmental permits in waste and resource management. Learners will develop skills to assess and minimise environmental impacts of work activities and manage fire risks in accordance with legal and organisational requirements.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 4 Certificate in Waste and Resource Management
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by CIWM.
- Environmental protection in the waste and resource management industry
- Health and safety in the waste and resource management industry
- Legislation for the operation of a waste management facility
- Principles and practices of managing a WEEE Facility.
- Principles and practices of managing a biological treatment processing facility
- Principles and practices of managing a hazardous waste storage and transfer facility
and 10 more in the full unit list below.
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