How you’d get this certificate
- 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 Excellence, Achievement & Learning 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 Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
The EAL Level 3 Electrotechnical Experienced Worker Qualification is for practising electricians in the building and construction sector. It allows experienced workers to demonstrate their competence in electrical installation, testing, and commissioning.
These are the units Excellence, Achievement & Learning 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 Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. Excellence, Achievement & Learning 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
Apply Design and Installation Practices and Procedures Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret electrical design specifications and drawings
- Apply relevant regulations and standards to electrical installations
- Plan the installation of electrical systems according to design requirements
- Select appropriate materials and components for electrical installations
- Implement safe working practices during electrical installations
- Apply procedures for testing and inspecting electrical installations
- Document the installation process and any deviations from the original design
- Apply design principles to ensure energy efficiency in electrical installations
- Apply procedures for earthing and bonding in electrical installations
Apply Design and Installation Practices and Procedures Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to install wiring systems, enclosures and associated equipment.
- Interpret appropriate information for the installation of wiring systems, enclosures and associated equipment.
- Install wiring systems, and equipment in accordance with current relevant statutory and non-statutory regulations.
- Confirm the quality of the completed work.
Apply Design and Installation Practices and Procedures Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply design principles to electrical installations in accordance with relevant regulations and standards
- Implement installation practices and procedures for electrical systems and equipment
- Follow industry best practices for the safe and effective installation of electrical components
- Adhere to quality assurance procedures during the design and installation process
- Document design and installation activities accurately and comprehensively
Apply Fault Diagnosis and Rectification Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to carry out fault diagnosis and rectification.
- Carry out fault diagnosis.
Apply Fault Diagnosis and Rectification Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply systematic fault diagnosis techniques to electrical systems
- Identify the root cause of electrical faults efficiently
- Rectify electrical faults in a safe and effective manner
- Test and verify the effectiveness of fault rectification
- Document the fault diagnosis and rectification process
Apply Health, Safety and Environmental Considerations Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply relevant health and safety legislation, regulations, and industry standards within the electrical sector
- Identify potential hazards and risks associated with electrical work environments
- Implement safe working practices and procedures to minimise risks in electrical installations
- Apply environmental considerations related to electrical installations and waste management
- Implement procedures for dealing with accidents and emergencies in electrical work environments
Apply Health, Safety and Environmental Considerations Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply relevant health and safety legislation in the workplace.
- Assess the work environment for hazards and identify remedial actions in accordance with health and safety legislation.
- Apply methods and procedures to ensure work on site is in accordance with health and safety legislation.
- Work in accordance with environmental legislation for electrical services.
Inspect, Test and Commission Electrical Systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm safety of the system and equipment prior to completion of inspection, testing and commissioning in accordance with statutory and non-statutory regulations.
- Inspect electrical systems and equipment.
Inspect, Test and Commission Electrical Systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procedures for inspecting electrical systems
- Understand the methods for testing electrical systems
- Understand the processes involved in commissioning electrical systems
- Conduct inspections of electrical systems to identify faults and non-compliance
- Perform tests on electrical systems to verify their functionality and safety
- Commission electrical systems according to relevant standards and regulations
Organise and Oversee the Electrical Work Environment Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of organising an electrical work environment
- Understand the procedures for overseeing an electrical work environment
- Implement health and safety procedures within the electrical work environment
- Manage resources effectively within the electrical work environment
- Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders in the electrical work environment
Organise and Oversee the Electrical Work Environment Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide relevant people with technical and functional information for work on electrical systems and equipment.
- Oversee health and safety during work on electrical systems and equipment.
- Co-ordinate liaison with other relevant persons during work activities.
- Organise and oversee work activities and operations.
- Organise a programme for working on electrical systems and equipment.
- Organise the resource requirements for work on electrical systems and equipment.
Principles, Practices and Legislation for the Initial Verification of Electrical Installations Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for completing the safe isolation of electric circuits and installations.
- Understand the requirements for initial verification of electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements for completing the inspection of electrical installations prior to their being placed into service.
- Understand the requirements for the safe testing and commissioning of electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements for testing before circuits are energised.
- Understand the requirements for testing energised installations.
- Understand the requirements for the completion of electrical installation certificates and associated documentation.
- Confirm safety of system and equipment prior to completion of inspection, testing and commissioning.
- Carry out inspection of electrical installations prior to them being placed into service.
- Test electrical installations prior to them being placed into service.
- Commission electrotechnical systems and equipment.
Principles, practices and legislation for the Initial Verification of electrical installations. Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for completing the safe isolation of electrical circuits and installations, in accordance with current regulations and industry best practice
- Understand the requirements for initial verification of electrical installations, including the relevant standards and procedures
- Understand the requirements for completing the inspection of electrical installations prior to their being placed into service, identifying potential hazards and non-compliances
- Understand the requirements for the safe testing and commissioning of electrical installations, ensuring they operate correctly and safely
- Understand the requirements for testing before circuits are energised, including continuity, insulation resistance, and polarity tests
- Understand the requirements for testing energised installations, including earth fault loop impedance, prospective fault current, and RCD testing
- Understand the requirements for the completion of electrical installation certificates and associated documentation, ensuring accurate and comprehensive records are maintained
- Confirm safety of system and equipment prior to completion of inspection, testing and commissioning, following established safety protocols
- Carry out inspection of electrical installations prior to them being placed into service, identifying and documenting any defects or non-compliances
- Test electrical installations prior to them being placed into service, using appropriate test instruments and procedures
- Commission electrotechnical systems and equipment, ensuring they operate to the required specification and performance standards
Terminate and Connect Conductors Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how to safely terminate electrical conductors
- Demonstrate how to safely connect electrical conductors
- Describe the different types of conductors used in electrical installations
- Explain the regulations and standards relating to terminating and connecting conductors
- Use appropriate tools and techniques for terminating and connecting conductors
Termination and Connection of Conductors Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to terminate and connect cables and conductors.
- Terminate and connect conductors and cables.
- Understand design and installation practices and procedures in electrical installations.
Termination and Connection of Conductors Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the correct techniques for the termination of conductors.
- Demonstrate the correct techniques for the connection of conductors.
- Apply relevant health and safety regulations when terminating and connecting conductors.
- Select appropriate tools and equipment for terminating and connecting conductors.
- Inspect and test terminations and connections to ensure they meet required standards.
Understand the Requirements of Electrical Installations BS 7671:2018 Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope, object and fundamental principles of BS7671
- Understand the definitions used within BS 7671
- Understand how to assess the general characteristics of electrical installations
- Understand requirements of protection for safety for electrical installations
- Understand the requirements for selection and erection of equipment for electrical installations
- Understand the requirements of inspection and testing of electrical installations
- Understand the requirements of special installations or locations as identified in BS 7671
- Understand the information contained within the appendices of BS 7671
Understand the Requirements of Electrical Installations BS 7671:2018 (2022) Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope of BS 7671.
- Understand the object of BS 7671.
- Understand the fundamental principles of BS 7671.
- Know the scope of BS 7671.
- Know the object of BS 7671.
- Know the fundamental principles of BS 7671.
- Understand how to assess the general characteristics of electrical installations.
- Understand requirements of protection for safety for electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements of inspection of electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements of testing of electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements of special installations as identified in BS 7671.
- Understand the requirements of special locations as identified in BS 7671.
- Understand the information contained within Part 8 of BS 7671.
- Understand the information contained within the appendices of BS 7671.
Understand the Requirements of Electrical Installations BS 7671:2018 (2024) Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope, object and fundamental principles of BS 7671.
- Understand the definitions used within BS 7671.
- Understand how to assess the general characteristics of electrical installations.
- Understand requirements of protection for safety for electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements for selection and erection of equipment for electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements of inspection and testing of electrical installations.
- Understand the requirements of special installations or locations as identified in BS 7671.
- Understand the information contained within Part 8 and the appendices of BS 7671.
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
Apply health and safety and environmental legislation in the building services engineering sector
- Standard
Design and Determine the Positioning, Fitting and Fixing of Electrical Wiring Systems, Wiring, Enclosures, Accessories & Equipment In Dwellings
- Standard
Develop, test and agree project designs for EESS
- Standard
ECIICESE02 Terminate cabling and wiring systems
- Standard
ECIICESE03 Inspect, test and commission electrical installations
- Standard
Identify and rectify faults in electrical systems and equipment
- Standard
Inspect and Test Identified Electrical Wiring Systems and Equipment In Dwellings
- Standard
Inspect and test Solar PV and EESS Systems
- Standard
Inspect and test electrical installations at petrol filling stations
- Standard
Inspect and test electrical systems and equipment
- Standard
Install and connect electrical cables, conductors, wiring systems and equipment
- Standard
Install and terminate communications cables
- Standard
Install electrical cabling and wiring systems
- Standard
Manage Electrotechnical Projects
- Standard
Manage electrotechnical health and safety
- Standard
Monitor and implement health and safety during electrotechnical operations
- Standard
Monitor and implement health and safety during electrotechnical operations
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Monitor the Maintenance of a Healthy and Safe Working Environment when Undertaking Electrical Installations Work In Dwellings
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning 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
Apply Design and Installation Practices and ProceduresApply Design and Installation Practices and ProceduresApply Design and Installation Practices and ProceduresApply Fault Diagnosis and RectificationApply Fault Diagnosis and RectificationApply Health, Safety and Environmental ConsiderationsApply Health, Safety and Environmental ConsiderationsInspect, Test and Commission Electrical Systems
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 Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration - Draft the real one Create
You do “Apply Design and Installation Practices and Procedures” 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
“Inspect, Test and Commission Electrical Systems” 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.
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.
- Apply health and safety and environmental legislation in the building services engineering sector
- Design and Determine the Positioning, Fitting and Fixing of Electrical Wiring Systems, Wiring, Enclosures, Accessories & Equipment In Dwellings
- Develop, test and agree project designs for EESS
- ECIICESE02 Terminate cabling and wiring systems
- ECIICESE03 Inspect, test and commission electrical installations
- Identify and rectify faults in electrical systems and equipment
- Inspect and Test Identified Electrical Wiring Systems and Equipment In Dwellings
- Inspect and test Solar PV and EESS Systems
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 Apply Design and Installation Practices and Procedures, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to interpret electrical design specifications and drawings, apply regulations and standards, plan installations, select materials, and implement safe working practices in electrical installations.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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.
Built for EAL Level 3 Electrotechnical Experienced Worker Qualification
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Apply Design and Installation Practices and Procedures
- Apply Fault Diagnosis and Rectification
- Apply Health, Safety and Environmental Considerations
- Inspect, Test and Commission Electrical Systems
- Organise and Oversee the Electrical Work Environment
- Principles, Practices and Legislation for the Initial Verification of Electrical Installations
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
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