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 ProQual Awarding Body has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and ProQual Awarding Body awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ProQual Awarding Body.
The ProQual Level 1 Award in Basic Construction Skills – Groundworks provides an introduction to working in the construction industry, appropriate for individuals of any age interested in construction.
These are the units ProQual 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with ProQual Awarding Body. It does the teaching and the mapping. ProQual Awarding Body sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Introducing concreting skills Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to lay concrete
- Prepare ground to level
- Mix and lay concrete
- Clean up on completion
Introducing drainage skills Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to lay drainage
- Prepare excavation to receive drainage
- Clean up on completion
Introducing kerblaying skills Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to lay kerbs
- Prepare kerb races
- Lay kerbs
- Clean up on completion
Introducing levelling in construction Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the resources required to transfer levels
- Check the accuracy of levelling equipment
- Transfer levels
Introduction to construction Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know what a construction site is
- Know different types of construction
- Know about different types of career opportunities available in construction
- Know about different types of organisations offering career opportunities in construction
- Understand how career choices can impact upon an individual’s lifestyle
- Understand how to progress in their chosen career with the construction industry
- Work responsibly with others
- Seek and respond to guidance when working as part of a team
- Know that an employer has responsibility for the occupational health of their employees
- Understand how technology has an impact in a construction work environment
- Maintain a record of their own training and development
Operating a forward tipping dumper Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to operate a forward tipping dumper
- Operate a forward tipping dumper
Operating a petrol driven cut off saw Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to operate a petrol driven cut off saw safely
- Operate a petrol driven cut off saw safely
Operating a ride on roller Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to operate a ride on roller
- Operate a ride on roller
Site safety, roles and responsibilities Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Know the roles and responsibilities for working in the construction sector
- Know the importance of health and safety on construction sites
- Know potential risks and hazards on construction sites
- Know the emergency and accident procedures on construction sites
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Safety Coordinator
This work can lead to managing safety on a whole site, then across several sites, and eventually to shaping safety policy for an organisation.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ProQual Awarding Body 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
Introducing concreting skillsIntroducing drainage skillsIntroducing kerblaying skillsIntroducing levelling in constructionIntroduction to constructionOperating a forward tipping dumperOperating a petrol driven cut off sawOperating a ride on roller
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.
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“Introducing concreting skills” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.
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 Introducing concreting skills, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit introduces foundational skills for mixing and laying concrete.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ProQual Level 1 Award in Basic Construction Skills – Groundworks
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.
- Introducing concreting skills
- Introducing drainage skills
- Introducing kerblaying skills
- Introducing levelling in construction
- Introduction to construction
- Operating a forward tipping dumper
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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