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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
NOCN offers a broad range of qualifications and alternative routes for both experienced workers and new entrants to the jobs market.
These are the units NOCN 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 NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN 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
Co-ordinating and confirming the dimensional control requirements of the work in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Co-ordinate with and communicate dimensional control information to work colleagues
- Confirm and measure dimensional controls and maintain them to the specified work requirements
- Check and ensure measuring and recording equipment meets the specified tolerances
- Identify any deviations in dimensional controls and ensure they are corrected in accordance with work requirements
Co-ordinating and organising work operations in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Provide information as required, to all the people who will be affected by the work operations
- Agree the planned timescales and methods of work with the workforce, ensuring clear understanding and buy-in
- Implement the agreed methods of communicating, reporting, recording and retrieving information related to the work operations
- Identify any breakdowns in communication and take action to restore effective communication amongst the team
- Communicate and organise the work being done in coordination with other operations as per the agreed work programme
- Organise and ensure there are sufficient resources, of the appropriate type, to meet the project requirements and timescales
- Organise and control the work and resources so that conditions are safe and the workplace is tidy, adhering to health and safety regulations
- Identify and record any unplanned circumstances and pass them on to people who may be affected, ensuring transparency and proactive problem-solving
- Organise the designated work area for operational purposes and communicate the layout and procedures to the workforce
- Organise the storage and use of materials and equipment so that handling and movement is efficient and wastage is minimised, promoting sustainability and cost-effectiveness
Confirming Work Activities and Resources for an Occupational Work Area in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Identify work activities required for an occupational work area.
- Assess the resources required to complete the identified work activities.
- Plan the sequence of work activities, taking into account resource requirements.
- Obtain clarification and advice when the required resources are not available.
- Evaluate the work activities and the impact of any significant external factors against the project requirements.
- Identify work activities that influence each other to optimise the use of available resources.
- Identify changed circumstances that require alterations to the work programme.
- Justify any required alterations to the work programme to decision makers.
Confirming the Occupational Method of Work in the Workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Assess available project data accurately to determine the occupational method of work
- Obtain additional information from alternative sources in cases where the available project data is insufficient
- Identify work methods that will make best use of resources and meet project, statutory and contractual requirements
- Confirm and communicate the selected work method to relevant personnel
Controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant or machinery in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant or machinery.
- Organise with others the sequence and operation in which directing and guiding operations are to be carried out.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when carrying out controlling, directing and guiding operations of plant or machinery.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant and machinery.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources to direct and guide the operation of plant and machinery.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant and machinery.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant and machinery.
- Comply with the given contract information to control, direct and guide the operation of plant or machinery to the required specification.
Developing and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Develop working relationships to promote goodwill and trust.
- Maintain working relationships to promote goodwill and trust.
- Encourage working relationships to promote goodwill and trust.
- Inform relevant people about work activities in an appropriate level of detail.
- Inform relevant people about work activities with the appropriate level of urgency.
- Offer advice and help to relevant people about work activities.
- Encourage questions and requests for clarification about work activities.
- Encourage comments about work activities.
- Clarify proposals with relevant people.
- Discuss alternative suggestions with relevant people.
- Resolve differences of opinion in ways that minimise offence.
- Maintain goodwill, trust and respect when resolving differences of opinion.
Dismantling and/or demolishing masonry and/or concrete structures in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when dismantling and/or demolishing masonry and/or concrete structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when dismantling and/or demolishing masonry and/or concrete structures.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when dismantling and/or demolishing masonry and/or concrete structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to dismantle and/or demolish masonry and/or concrete structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when dismantling and/or demolishing masonry and/or concrete structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when dismantling and/or demolishing masonry and/or concrete structures.
- Comply with the given contract information to dismantle and/or demolish masonry and/or concrete structures, to the required specification.
Dismantling and/or demolishing metal structures in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when dismantling and/or demolishing metal structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when dismantling and/or demolishing metal structures.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when dismantling and/or demolishing metal structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to dismantle and/or demolish metal structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when dismantling and/or demolishing metal structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when dismantling and/or demolishing metal structures.
- Comply with the given contract information to dismantle and/or demolish metal structures, to the required specification.
Dismantling and/or demolishing roofs and/or cladding in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when dismantling and/or demolishing roofs and/or cladding.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when dismantling and/or demolishing roofs and/or cladding.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when dismantling and/or demolishing roofs and/or cladding.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to dismantle and/or demolish roofs and/or cladding.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when dismantling and/or demolishing roofs and/or cladding.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when dismantling and/or demolishing roofs and/or cladding.
- Comply with the given contract information to dismantle and/or demolish roofs and/or cladding, to the required specification.
Dismantling and/or demolishing timber structures in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when dismantling and/or demolishing timber structures.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when dismantling and/or demolishing timber structures.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when dismantling and/or demolishing timber structures.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to dismantle and/or demolish timber structures.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when dismantling and/or demolishing timber structures.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when dismantling and/or demolishing timber structures.
- Comply with the given contract information to dismantle and/or demolish timber structures to the required specification.
Implementing and maintaining health, safety, environmental and welfare practices in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Allocate and maintain health, safety, environmental and welfare equipment and resources to meet project and statutory requirements.
- Encourage a positive culture of health, safety, environmental and welfare practices and identify opportunities for improving the health and safety of the work environment through engagement with the workforce.
- Ensure that their team is inducted and check that they are suitably competent and monitored whilst at the workplace.
- Monitor and review health, safety, environmental and welfare practices and safe systems of work in the relevant work environment in accordance with current organisational and statutory requirements.
Installing, constructing, maintaining, dismantling and removing temporary works in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when installing, constructing, maintaining, dismantling and removing temporary works.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when installing, constructing, maintaining, dismantling and removing temporary works.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when installing, constructing, maintaining, dismantling and removing temporary works.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to install, construct, maintain, dismantle and remove temporary works.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when installing, constructing, maintaining, dismantling and removing temporary works.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when installing, constructing, maintaining, dismantling and removing temporary works.
- Comply with the given contract information to install, construct, maintain, dismantle and remove temporary works to the required specification.
Monitoring progress of work against schedules in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor progress of planned programmes against work schedules
- Identify, record and report inappropriate specified resources and suggest suitable alternatives
- Identify and quantify deviations from planned progress which have or may occur, and which could alter the programme
- Confirm the circumstances of any deviations, seek advice and implement appropriate corrective actions
- Identify and report options which may help the contract progress
- Report progress, any changes to the operational programme and resource needs
Operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres.
- Organise with others the sequence and operation in which demolition operations using plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres are to be carried out.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance to carry out demolition operations when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres.
- Request and select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to operate plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and /or demolish structures above 30 metres.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres.
- Comply with the given contract information to operate plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures above 30 metres to the required specification.
Operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret given information relating to the work and resources when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres.
- Organise with others the sequence and operation in which demolition operations using plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres are to be carried out.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance to carry out demolition operations when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres.
- Request and select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to operate plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and /or demolish structures up to 30 metres.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when operating plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres.
- Comply with the given contract information to operate plant or machinery to dismantle and/or demolish structures up to 30 metres to the required specification.
Removing and segregating components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment in the workplace Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources when removing and segregating components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment.
- Comply with relevant legislation and official guidance when removing and segregating components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment.
- Maintain safe and healthy working practices when removing and segregating components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment.
- Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work to remove and segregate components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment.
- Minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area when removing and segregating components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment.
- Complete the work within the allocated time when removing and segregating components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment.
- Comply with the given contract information to remove and segregate components and materials in demolition and/or refurbishment to the required specification.
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.
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Co-ordinate and Organise Work Operations
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Co-ordinate communications for operational activities on utility networks and assets
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Contribute to providing a quality service when carrying out information destruction operations
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Control, direct and guide the operation of plant or machinery
- Standard
Develop and Maintain Good Working Relationships
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Dismantle and fix heritage metalwork
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Establish and maintain effective working relationships within safety services
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Identify the functions required in an occupational area
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Monitor and report on progress and the use of resources
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Monitor and review project progress
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Monitor the installation process for Network Construction 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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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 14 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Senior Building Operations Coordinator
This role can lead into senior facilities management, overseeing larger portfolios, or into director-level roles setting operational standards across a whole organisation.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN 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
Co-ordinating and confirming the dimensional control requirements of the work in the workplaceCo-ordinating and organising work operations in the workplaceConfirming Work Activities and Resources for an Occupational Work Area in the WorkplaceConfirming the Occupational Method of Work in the WorkplaceControlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant or machinery in the workplaceDeveloping and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplaceDismantling and/or demolishing masonry and/or concrete structures in the workplaceDismantling and/or demolishing metal structures in the workplace
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 “Controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant or machinery in the workplace” 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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Monitoring progress of work against schedules in the workplace” 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.
- Co-ordinate and Organise Work Operations
- Co-ordinate communications for operational activities on utility networks and assets
- Contribute to providing a quality service when carrying out information destruction operations
- Control, direct and guide the operation of plant or machinery
- Develop and Maintain Good Working Relationships
- Dismantle and fix heritage metalwork
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships within safety services
- Identify the functions required in an occupational area
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 Co-ordinating and confirming the dimensional control requirements of the work in the workplace, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to co-ordinate and communicate dimensional control information, use appropriate measuring equipment to confirm and maintain dimensional accuracy, and identify and rectify deviations to meet specified work requirements.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NOCN Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Demolition (Construction)
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Co-ordinating and confirming the dimensional control requirements of the work in the workplace
- Co-ordinating and organising work operations in the workplace
- Confirming Work Activities and Resources for an Occupational Work Area in the Workplace
- Confirming the Occupational Method of Work in the Workplace
- Controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant or machinery in the workplace
- Developing and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplace
and 10 more in the full unit list below.
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