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- 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.
This occupational qualification confirms competence in providing electronic fire and security systems. It covers developing working relationships, communicating effectively, and auditing electronic equipment. It is designed for experienced professionals in the building and construction sector.
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
Auditing of electronic equipment and systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct audits on electronic systems and equipment.
Communicate effectively with others Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate effective communication skills.
Control contract work for electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Oversee contracts related to security systems.
Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues within your own organisation.
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues within other organisations with which your organisation works.
- Develop productive working relationships with identified stakeholders.
- Monitor the effectiveness of working relationships with colleagues.
- Monitor the effectiveness of working relationships with stakeholders.
- Review the effectiveness of working relationships with colleagues.
- Review the effectiveness of working relationships with stakeholders.
- Access information and keep records.
- Portray a positive image whilst establishing an effective rapport with customers.
- Apply appropriate behaviours required in the workplace to meet the job profile and overall company objectives.
Implement works to meet installation requirements Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Execute installation plans and requirements.
Installing electronic equipment and systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Install electronic systems and equipment efficiently.
Maintenance of electronic equipment and systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out planned maintenance of electronic systems.
Manage your own resources and personal development Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Manage own resources.
- Manage own professional development.
- Know and understand how to manage their own resources using general knowledge.
- Know and understand how to manage their own resources using industry and sector specific knowledge.
- Know and understand how to manage their own resources using context specific knowledge.
- Apply appropriate behaviours required in the workplace to meet the job profile and overall company objectives.
Negotiate sales of electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to negotiate sales of electronic security systems.
- Prepare to negotiate sales of fire detection and alarm systems.
- Prepare sales proposals for electronic security systems.
- Prepare sales proposals for fire detection and alarm systems.
- Negotiate terms of sales for electronic security systems.
- Negotiate terms of sales for fire detection and alarm systems.
- Agree terms of sales for electronic security systems.
- Agree terms of sales for fire detection and alarm systems.
- Apply statutory regulations.
- Apply organisational safety requirements and procedures.
- Understand the safety requirements and their application.
- Demonstrate knowledge of safety requirements in adequate depth to provide a sound basis for carrying out the activities safely and correctly.
Plan the installation of electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm the details of electronic security or fire detection and alarm system requirements
- Plan and co-ordinate the use of resources to install electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems
- Organise first fixes of installation
Preparing and installing cabling for electronic systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and install cabling systems.
Preparing quotations for providing electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Calculate the cost of supplying and installing electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems.
- Calculate the cost of maintaining the performance of electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems.
- Produce quotations for the supply, installation and maintenance of electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems.
Protecting from the risk of violence at work Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Implement strategies to protect from violence.
Provide leadership for your team Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop skills to provide leadership for a team
- Use appropriate behaviours to provide leadership for a team
- Know and understand how to provide leadership for a team using general knowledge
- Know and understand how to provide leadership for a team using industry and sector specific knowledge
- Know and understand how to provide leadership for a team using context specific knowledge
- Understand statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements and procedures related to providing leadership for a team
- Understand the safety requirements and their application when providing leadership for a team
Rectifying faults on electronic equipment and systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Diagnose and rectify faults in electronic systems effectively.
Reducing the risks to health and safety at work Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of health and safety legislation and regulations.
Survey sites to prepare specifications for electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Survey sites to collect information for the design, installation and maintenance of electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems.
- Design a system to meet the customer requirements and comply with current legislation and codes of practice.
- Produce a specification for an electronic security or fire detection and alarm system to meet the customer requirements that complies with current legislation and codes of practice.
- Know and comply with the legislation, regulations, standards and codes of practice that are relevant to the systems for which you carry out surveys and produce designs and specifications.
Testing, commissioning and handover of systems Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct testing and commissioning procedures for electronic systems.
Work effectively with other agencies Real unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Effectively collaborate with external organisations.
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
Carry out site surveys for a mechanical fire protection system
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Develop and sustain working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
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Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
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Establish and maintain relationships in the building services engineering sector
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Identify client’s security devices and door hardware requirements
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Install cabling for electronic security systems
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Manage your own resources
- Standard
Manage your own resources and professional development
- Standard
Plan the installation of Physical Security solutions
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Plan the installation of void property security solutions
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Prepare and produce quotations for mechanical fire protection systems
- Standard
Prepare quotations for providing Physical Security solutions
- Standard
Prepare quotations for providing void property security solutions
- Standard
Prepare to install a Physical Security solution
- Standard
Provide leadership for your team
- Standard
Provide leadership to your team
- Standard
Provide leadership to your team
- Standard
Providing leadership in life sciences and related industries
Showing 18 of 21 standards these units map to.
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
Auditing of electronic equipment and systemsCommunicate effectively with othersControl contract work for electronic security or fire detection and alarm systemsDevelop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholdersImplement works to meet installation requirementsInstalling electronic equipment and systemsMaintenance of electronic equipment and systemsManage your own resources and personal development
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
“Negotiate sales of electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems” 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 “Implement works to meet installation requirements” 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 “Auditing of electronic equipment and systems” 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
“Control contract work for electronic security or fire detection and alarm 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.
- Carry out site surveys for a mechanical fire protection system
- Develop and sustain working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Establish and maintain relationships in the building services engineering sector
- Identify client’s security devices and door hardware requirements
- Install cabling for electronic security systems
- Manage your own resources
- Manage your own resources and professional development
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 Auditing of electronic equipment and systems, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
Covers the auditing process required to ensure compliance with standards.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for EAL Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Providing Electronic Fire and Security Systems
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Auditing of electronic equipment and systems
- Communicate effectively with others
- Control contract work for electronic security or fire detection and alarm systems
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Implement works to meet installation requirements
- Installing electronic equipment and systems
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
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