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How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Highfield Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Highfield Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Highfield Qualifications.

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01What it is

The Highfield Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Plant Operations (Excavating) is designed to prepare learners for employment and/or support roles in the workplace, offering qualifications in health, safety, and operational skills related to various plant equipment.

These are the units Highfield Qualifications 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 Highfield Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. Highfield Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit provides learners with the skills and knowledge to verify their competence in conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Comply with all workplace health, safety and welfare legislation requirements
  • Recognise hazards associated with the workplace that have not been previously controlled and report them in accordance with organisational procedures, and maintain good working relationships when conforming to productive working practices.
Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit provides learners with the skills and knowledge to verify their competence in conforming to productive working practices in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Communicate with others to establish productive work practices
Preparing and operating skid steer loaders to excavate in the workplace Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit provides learners with the skills and knowledge to verify their competence in preparing and operating skid steer loaders to excavate in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Interpret the given information relating to the preparation and use of skid steer loaders to carry out excavating operations.
Preparing and operating suction and vacuum excavators to excavate in the workplace Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit provides learners with the skills and knowledge to verify their competence in preparing and operating suction and vacuum excavators to excavate in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Interpret the given information relating to the preparation and use of suction and vacuum excavators to carry out excavating operations.
Preparing and operating wheeled loading shovels to excavate in the workplace Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit provides learners with the skills and knowledge to verify their competence in preparing and operating wheeled loading shovels to excavate in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Interpret the given information relating to the preparation and use of wheeled loading shovels to carry out excavating operations.
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03The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Highfield Qualifications 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

Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplaceConforming to productive working practices in the workplacePreparing and operating skid steer loaders to excavate in the workplacePreparing and operating suction and vacuum excavators to excavate in the workplacePreparing and operating wheeled loading shovels to excavate 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 Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Rather than work through “Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace” in the abstract, bring me the piece of it you are dealing with this week.
You I have got the write-up due Friday and I have not started it.
The Coach Then that is the lesson. Tell me what it has to say, and we will get the shape of it down before we worry about the words.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring the real thing Apply

    “Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace” 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 Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace, one of this qualification's own units.

Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace Level 2

Applied to your own work

This unit provides learners with the skills and knowledge to verify their competence in conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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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Your Plan Illustration

Built for Highfield Level 2 Certificate in Plant Operations

5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.

  1. Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace
  2. Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace
  3. Preparing and operating skid steer loaders to excavate in the workplace
  4. Preparing and operating suction and vacuum excavators to excavate in the workplace
  5. Preparing and operating wheeled loading shovels to excavate in the workplace
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.

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