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ETC Awards Limited · RQF Level 1

ETCAL Level 1 Award in Warehousing

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 1
  • Total credits7
  • Guided learning70 hours
  • Units in this qualification3

Awarded by ETC Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

This qualification introduces learners to warehousing, covering health and safety, and manual handling. It is suitable for those seeking an entry-level role in the manufacturing technologies sector.

These are the units ETC Awards 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Health & SafetyReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
You'll understand health and safety responsibilities for employers and employees, causes of workplace accidents, and the selection of appropriate personal protective equipment. The unit also covers safe working practices, including working at height and emergency procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the responsibilities of employers for health and safety at work.
  • Understand the responsibilities of employees for health and safety at work.
  • Understand the causes of accidents at work, including common hazards and risks.
  • Identify personal protective equipment (PPE) required to complete a task in the workplace safely.
  • Select personal protective equipment (PPE) required to complete a task in the workplace safely.
  • Know the importance of working safely at height in the workplace, including the risks and control measures.
  • Know the principles of risk assessment and their importance to health and safety at work.
  • Understand causes of fire in the workplace.
  • Understand when fire extinguishers should be used in the workplace.
  • Know the potential risks to health of substances in the working environment, including COSHH regulations.
Introduction to WarehousingReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
This unit introduces learners to warehousing operations, including receiving, storing, processing orders, and dispatching goods or components. It emphasises the importance of accurate documentation and maintaining a safe, organised warehouse environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to receive goods or components into a warehouse, including checking deliveries and completing documentation.
  • Understand how to store goods or components in a warehouse, including using appropriate storage methods and equipment.
  • Understand how to process orders and dispatch goods or components from a warehouse, including picking, packing, and labelling.
  • Understand the importance and function of ‘housekeeping’ in warehouses, including maintaining a clean and safe working environment.
Manual HandlingReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
This unit covers the legal requirements and organisational procedures for safe manual handling. You'll develop the ability to identify tasks that increase risk of muscular or skeletal injuries and apply correct handling techniques to maintain health and safety.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of carrying out work duties in a safe and sound manner in accordance with relevant health and safety legislation and organisational procedures.
  • Identify tasks at work which could increase the risk of muscular or skeletal injuries, including assessing the load, the environment, and individual capabilities.
  • Safely handle equipment used in manual handling tasks, including using correct lifting techniques and personal protective equipment.
  • Identify the signs and symptoms of poor manual handling techniques, including recognising pain, discomfort, and fatigue.
  • Understand how to reduce the risk of manual handling accidents in the warehousing environment, including implementing safe systems of work and providing appropriate training.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 1 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.

Health & SafetyIntroduction to WarehousingManual Handling

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where this connects

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.

Where this can lead

Health and Safety Coordinator

Your journey in health and safety at Zavmo starts here, but it certainly doesn't end here. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a long, impactful career, whether that's leading teams, becoming a deep technical expert, or shaping our overall safety strategy. The future is yours to build.

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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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Health & SafetyLevel 1

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Health and Safety CoordinatorEHS Coordinator

Learners will understand health and safety responsibilities for employers and employees, causes of workplace accidents, and the selection of appropriate personal protective equipment. The unit also covers safe working practices, including working at height and emergency procedures.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for ETCAL Level 1 Award in Warehousing

3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.

  1. Health & Safety
  2. Introduction to Warehousing
  3. Manual Handling
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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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