CABWI Awarding Body · RQF Level 3
CABWI Level 3 Diploma in Waste Water Networks
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits43
- Guided learning259 hours
- Units in this qualification10
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These are the units CABWI 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.
Investigation and Mitigation of Waste Water Network ProblemsReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to investigate the cause of waste water network failures, including blockages.
- Understand how to investigate the cause of waste water network failures, including flooding.
- Understand how to investigate the cause of waste water network failures, including pollution incidents.
- Understand how to investigate the cause of waste water network failures, including nuisance issues.
- Understand the technology used to investigate waste water network problems, such as CCTV cameras, flow monitors, and dye tracing.
- Understand the procedures for recording sewage flooding events.
- Understand the procedures for reporting sewage flooding events.
- Understand the procedures for recording pollution events.
- Understand the procedures for reporting pollution events.
- Understand the procedures for recording events that result in pollution of controlled waters.
- Understand the procedures for reporting events that result in pollution of controlled waters.
- Understand techniques to mitigate flooding from the waste water network, such as temporary dams, pumping, and sewer diversions.
- Understand techniques used in location of underground apparatus, including plans, maps and detection equipment.
- Understand techniques used in avoidance of underground apparatus, including safe digging practices.
- Understand the cause of infiltration into waste water networks.
- Understand the effect of infiltration into waste water networks.
- Understand the consequence of infiltration into waste water networks.
- Understand the cause of exfiltration from waste water networks.
- Understand the effect of exfiltration from waste water networks.
- Understand the consequence of exfiltration from waste water networks.
- Investigate waste water network problems, using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Undertake sewer CCTV survey operations, following established procedures and safety guidelines.
Operation of Waste Water Networks and AncillariesReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of waste water networks and their specific operational characteristics.
- Understand the operation of different types of waste water networks.
- Understand the different types of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) and their purpose.
- Understand the operation of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs).
- Understand the different types of attenuation tank installations on waste water networks.
- Understand the operation of attenuation tank installations on waste water networks.
- Understand the different types of other ancillaries on waste water networks, such as valves, screens, and weirs.
- Understand the operation of other ancillaries on waste water networks.
- Understand the use of remote monitoring of waste water network assets, including sensors and data logging.
- Understand the use of remote control of waste water network assets, including automated valve operation and pump control.
- Understand techniques for cleaning waste water networks, including jetting, rodding, and vacuuming.
- Understand techniques for cleaning waste water network ancillaries.
- Understand different types of nuisance associated with waste water networks, such as odour, noise, and vermin.
- Understand the causes of nuisances in waste water networks.
- Understand methods for removing nuisances in waste water networks.
- Undertake operational maintenance of network assets, following established procedures and safety guidelines.
- Minimise the impact of operational maintenance activities on the environment and the public.
- Undertake operational maintenance of telemetry equipment used for remote monitoring.
- Undertake operational maintenance of remote monitoring equipment used for waste water networks.
- Undertake sewer cleaning operations, using appropriate equipment and techniques.
Waste Water Network - Asset ManagementReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of asset lifecycles in the context of waste water networks.
- Understand the principles of asset management systems used in the waste water industry.
- Understand how water industry assets are financed, including different funding models and investment strategies.
- Understand the factors associated with poor performing infrastructure assets within waste water networks.
- Understand the factors associated with poor performing non-infrastructure assets within waste water networks.
- Understand the principles of selecting appropriate new sewer techniques for waste water networks.
- Understand the principles of selecting appropriate sewer renewal techniques for waste water networks.
- Understand the principles of selecting appropriate sewer rehabilitation techniques for waste water networks.
Waste Water Network - Development and AdoptionReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in the adoption of sewerage networks, pumping stations and associated ancillaries.
- Understand the specific requirements for the adoption of waste water networks, including lateral drains/sewers and pumping stations.
- Understand the responsibilities associated with connecting new sewers and lateral drains to the existing public sewerage system.
- Understand the requirements and available options when building over or in close proximity to existing sewers and lateral drains.
- Understand the processes involved in the diversion of existing sewers and lateral drains.
- Understand the processes for the requisition of new sewers and lateral drains.
- Understand the purpose and application of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in new developments, including the responsibilities for their ongoing operation and maintenance.
Waste Water Network - Pumping StationsReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of waste water network pumping stations in the overall system.
- Understand the operation of waste water network pumping stations.
- Understand the purpose of rising mains in waste water networks.
- Understand the operation of rising mains in waste water networks.
- Understand the operation of waste water network pumping stations, including pump types, control systems, and safety features.
- Understand the maintenance requirements of waste water network pumping stations.
- Understand the operation of rising mains, including flow control, pressure management, and surge protection.
- Understand the maintenance requirements of rising mains.
- Understand the factors that affect the efficiency of waste water network pumping operations, such as pump selection, pipe friction, and system design.
- Understand the factors that affect the reliability of waste water network pumping operations, such as pump maintenance, power supply, and control system failures.
Waste Water Networks - ComponentsReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the physical characteristics of waste water networks, including their design and construction.
- Understand the purpose and operational use of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) within the waste water network.
- Understand the purpose and operational use of Attenuation Tanks within the waste water network.
- Understand the purpose and operational use of other ancillary components within the waste water network.
- Understand how to select appropriate pipe materials and fittings for use in waste water networks, considering factors such as durability and cost.
- Understand the various methods available for repairing defective pipelines within a waste water network.
Waste Water Networks - Customer ServiceReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand Customer contacts.
- Understand how to resolve customer concerns and issues.
- Understand performance measures and targets in relation to waste water networks.
- Understand compensation entitlements for waste water flooding.
- Deal with customer contacts.
Waste Water Networks - Effluent Characteristics and ImpactReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential effects of both permitted and unauthorised substances and effluents on the operation and integrity of sewerage systems.
- Understand the procedures and best practices for managing trade effluent discharges into public sewers.
Waste Water Networks - Regulation and ComplianceReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the UK water industry's legislative frameworks, including relevant Acts of Parliament and statutory instruments.
- Understand the UK water industry's regulatory frameworks, including the roles and responsibilities of key regulatory bodies.
- Understand regulatory performance measures used to assess the performance of water companies.
- Understand how regulation impacts the operational activities within a water company, including investment decisions and service delivery.
- Understand the legal status of drainage conduits, networks, and water courses.
- Understand the ownership of drainage conduits, networks, and water courses.
- Understand the responsibilities relating to drainage conduits, networks, and water courses.
- Understand Health & Safety regulations relevant to working on waste water networks.
- Understand the nature of trade effluents and their potential impact on waste water networks.
- Understand the rights of traders relating to discharges to public sewerage networks.
- Understand the responsibilities of traders relating to discharges to public sewerage networks.
- Understand the rights of water companies relating to discharges to public sewerage networks.
- Understand the responsibilities of water companies relating to discharges to public sewerage networks.
- Understand consented discharges to sewers and the conditions attached to them.
- Understand unconsented discharges to sewers and the potential consequences.
- Understand legislation relating to pollution of controlled waters from sewers.
- Understand access rights for the repair of waste water networks.
- Understand access rights for the maintenance of waste water networks.
- Understand access rights for the operation of waste water networks.
Waste Water Networks - Science and Operational CalculationsReal unit · CABWI Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand mathematical techniques commonly used in Waste water Networks.
- Understand the hydraulic characteristics of sewerage systems.
- Understand the characteristics of waste water.
- Understand the environmental impact of waste water network discharges.
- Understand the basis of the waste water treatment process.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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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.
- Communicate with customers in the utilities sector
- Communicate with customers in the waste resource management industry
- Decommission Water Networks
- Develop, implement and monitor strategic plans to minimise risk from contamination and other non-compliance situations
- Educate, guide and enforce to secure water fittings compliance with legislation
- Monitor asset using CCTV equipment Legacy
- Oversee an approved contractors’ scheme
- Resolve escalated water fittings enforcement cases
Where this can lead
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Your journey here is what you make of it. We provide the opportunities, the challenges, and the support. Your drive, curiosity, and commitment to excellence will determine how far you go. We're excited to see what you'll achieve.
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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.
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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop knowledge of investigating causes of waste water network failures such as blockages, flooding, pollution, and nuisance. The unit includes understanding investigative technologies, and the recording and reporting of sewage flooding and pollution events.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CABWI Level 3 Diploma in Waste Water Networks
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by CABWI Awarding Body.
- Investigation and Mitigation of Waste Water Network Problems
- Operation of Waste Water Networks and Ancillaries
- Waste Water Network - Asset Management
- Waste Water Network - Development and Adoption
- Waste Water Network - Pumping Stations
- Waste Water Networks - Components
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
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.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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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