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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer FDQ 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 FDQ Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from FDQ Limited.
Aimed at those in food and drink operations, this Level 3 diploma develops skills in areas such as continuous improvement and auditing. Learners will gain knowledge of food safety and HACCP principles. The qualification also covers leading and developing teams within the food and drink manufacturing sector.
These are the units FDQ 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, 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 FDQ Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. FDQ Limited 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
Contribute to audits in food and drink operations Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of auditing best practice
- Plan an internal audit in an area of the business
- Contribute to internal or external audits
- Contribute to an internal or external audit
- Contribute to post-audit actions
Improve food and drink operations using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniques Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Use problem solving techniques to eliminate root cause problems
- Evaluate and improve production in line with Continuous Improvement (CI) techniques
Improve food and drink quality using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniques Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Use problem-solving techniques to identify and eliminate root cause problems affecting food and drink quality
- Evaluate food and drink quality using appropriate metrics and standards
- Improve food and drink quality in line with Continuous Improvement (CI) methodologies and principles
Lead and develop teams in food and drink operations Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to lead teams
- Understand how to develop teams in food and drink operations
- Lead a team in food and drink operations
- Develop team members in food and drink operations
Principles of food safety and HACCP for advanced food operators Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how food business operators ensure compliance with food safety and HACCP legislation
- Understand the application and monitoring of good hygiene practice
- Understand how to develop HACCP based food safety management procedures
- Understand how to implement HACCP based food safety management procedures
- Understand how to evaluate HACCP based procedures
- Understand the role of supervision in food safety management procedures
Principles of food science and technology Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the composition of food products, including their key components and properties
- Understand the principles of food analysis techniques used to assess food quality and safety
- Understand the principles of sensory analysis and its application in evaluating food products
- Understand the causes and control of food spoilage, including microbial, enzymatic, and chemical factors
- Understand the principles of food preservation methods used to extend shelf life and maintain food quality
- Understand the role of food additives in food manufacturing, including their functions and regulations
Principles of manufacturing practice for advanced food and drink operators Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the wider food business environment, including its structure and key influences
- Understand the principles of multistage operations within the food and drink manufacturing sector
- Identify technical problems related to products, equipment, and safety within food and drink operations
- Resolve technical problems related to products, equipment, and safety in line with organisational processes
- Understand the principles of planning and stock control within a food and drink manufacturing environment
Understand how to improve food and drink operations Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of data analysis
- Understand the principles of continuous improvement
Understand how to introduce and maintain equipment and processes in food and drink operations Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of plant maintenance for equipment and processes used in food and drink operations
- Understand the methodology of introducing new processes, products, and machinery into food and drink manufacturing
- Describe the principles of asset care and its role in optimising equipment performance and lifespan
Understand how to manage health, safety and environmental systems in food and drink operations Real unit · FDQ Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of incident management, including reporting and investigation procedures
- Understand the principles of environmental management systems and their application in food and drink operations
- Understand the principles of health and safety systems and their importance in maintaining a safe working environment
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 health, safety and environmental management systems in food and drink operations
- Standard
Develop policy and practice to manage health, safety and environmental systems in food and drink operations
- Standard
Implement and evaluate improvements in food and drink operations
- Standard
Lead a food and drink business
- Standard
Principles of Human Food Toxicology in Food Technology
- Standard
Principles of food science in food technology
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Support Production in Food and Drink Operations
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Understand how to maintain fresh water distribution systems and equipment used in food and drink operations
- Standard
Understand how to maintain instrumentation and control systems used in food and drink operations
- Standard
Understand how to maintain process controller equipment within an engineered system used in food and drink operations
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.
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- 1 record
Where this can lead
Senior Food Safety Specialist
This work can lead to managing food safety and quality across several sites, or into a senior technical role covering food safety, quality and process improvement.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by FDQ 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
Contribute to audits in food and drink operationsImprove food and drink operations using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniquesImprove food and drink quality using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniquesLead and develop teams in food and drink operationsPrinciples of food safety and HACCP for advanced food operatorsPrinciples of food science and technologyPrinciples of manufacturing practice for advanced food and drink operatorsUnderstand how to improve food and drink operations
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 “Improve food and drink operations using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniques” 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.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Contribute to audits in food and drink operations” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Improve food and drink quality using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniques” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Lead and develop teams in food and drink operations” 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 health, safety and environmental management systems in food and drink operations
- Develop policy and practice to manage health, safety and environmental systems in food and drink operations
- Implement and evaluate improvements in food and drink operations
- Lead a food and drink business
- Principles of Human Food Toxicology in Food Technology
- Principles of food science in food technology
- Support Production in Food and Drink Operations
- Understand how to maintain fresh water distribution systems and equipment used in food and drink operations
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 Contribute to audits in food and drink operations, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit enables learners to contribute to audits within food and drink operations. Learners will understand auditing best practice, plan internal audits, participate in audit activities, and support post-audit actions to ensure compliance and quality assurance.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for FDQ Level 3 Diploma in Food & Drink Operations
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by FDQ Limited.
- Contribute to audits in food and drink operations
- Improve food and drink operations using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniques
- Improve food and drink quality using Continuous Improvement and problem-solving techniques
- Lead and develop teams in food and drink operations
- Principles of food safety and HACCP for advanced food operators
- Principles of food science and technology
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
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