CIWM
    Level 3
    QN: 501/1853/5
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    CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 3 Diploma for Waste Supervisor

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by CIWM. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1468 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 3
    Awarding Body
    CIWM
    Syllabus Units
    50 Units
    Guided Hours
    1468 hrs
    Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.

    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Acceptance of waste

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Accept waste
    • Use and communicate data and information in accordance with operational procedures, Re
    • solve problems which arise from the acceptance of waste
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for acceptance of waste
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    2

    Conduct environmental monitoring on a waste management facility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Conduct environmental monitoring, Inspect, sample and test waste in line with operational procedures
    • Use and communicate data and information in line with operational procedures, Re
    • solve problems which arise from conducting environmental monitoring
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for conducting environmental monitoring on a waste management facility
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    3

    Conform to General Workplace Environmental Requirements

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Identify environmental aspects, Control waste arising from the operations in their area of responsibility
    4

    Conforming to Efficient Working Practices in the Workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Communicate with others to establish productive working relationships.
    • Follow organisational procedures to maintain good work relationships.
    • Maintain appropriate records in accordance with the organisational procedures.
    5

    Conforming to General Safety in the Workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Identify hazards associated with the workplace and record and report in accordance with organisational procedures.
    • Comply with all workplace safety legislation requirements.
    • Comply with and maintain all organisational security arrangements and approved procedures.
    • Comply with all emergency procedures in accordance with organisational policy.
    6

    Conforming to Productive Working Practices in the Workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Communicate with others to establish productive work practices.
    • Follow organisational procedures to plan the sequence of work.
    • Maintain relevant records in accordance with the organisational procedures.
    • Maintain good working relationships when conforming to productive working practices.
    7

    Contribute to maintaining sustainable development and environmental good practice at work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to minimise the impact of work activities on the environment
    • Understand operational processes to ensure environmental good practice
    • Understand operational processes to recommend improvements to maintain environmental good practice
    • Know how to dispose of waste materials safely and according to relevant approved procedures and practices
    • Be able to deal with small scale pollution incidents in accordance with approved procedures and practices
    • Be able to report more serious pollution incidents to the relevant people
    • Be able to report environmental incidents promptly and accurately in accordance with approved procedures and practices
    • Understand own role in contributing to sustainable development during work activities
    • Understand how to contribute to maintaining sustainable development and environmental good practice at work
    8

    Contribute to the management of the environmental impact of work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Maintain the environment through effective contribution to the management of work
    • Understand how to the manage the impact of work on the environment
    9

    Contribute to the provision of customer service in a waste environment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how to contribute to the provision of customer services in logistics operations
    • Be able to contribute to the provision of customer services in logistics operations
    10

    Contribute to the sustainability, maintenance and preservation of the environment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to recognise opportunities to minimise environmental impact when operating equipment and using materials.
    • Understand operational processes to recommend improvements to maintain environmental good practice
    • Understand how to contribute to the sustainability, maintenance and preservation of the environment
    11

    Control maintenance and other engineering operations

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Produce maintenance schedules
    • Use and communicate data and information
    • Monitor maintenance and other engineering operations
    • Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements for managing waste operations
    • Understand the specific regulation procedures and requirements for controlling maintenance and other engineering operations
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    12

    Control the risk from vehicle and plant movements on waste management facilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Control the risk from vehicle and mobile plant movements in line with operational and location-specific procedures
    • Maintain the safety of pedestrians and workers in line with operational and location-specific procedures
    • Use and communicate data and information to enable risk to be controlled, Re
    • solve problems from vehicle and mobile plant movements which compromise safety
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for controlling the risk from vehicle and plant movements on waste management facilities
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    13

    Control the Sale of Stocked Material or Products

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Control the stocks of material or products, Sell stocked material or products
    14

    Control work activities on a waste management facility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Control work activities on a waste facility
    • Use and communicate data and information, Re
    • solve any problems which may arise from controlling work activities on a waste facility
    • Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements for managing waste operations
    • Understand the specific regulation procedures and requirements for controlling work activities on a waste management facility
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    15

    Direct Vehicle Movements on Site

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Direct vehicle movements
    16

    Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to monitor the operational compliance of procedures in meeting legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements.
    • Be able to identify and make recommendations on areas of non-compliance with procedures for legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements relating to own area of responsibility.
    17

    Ensure that staff conform to productive and efficient working practices

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Establish productive working relationships
    • Develop individuals and teams to work efficiently
    • Use and communicate data and information in line with operational procedures, Re
    • solve problems which could affect operational efficiency
    • Understand the regulation procedures and requirements for ensuring that staff conform to productive and efficient working practices
    18

    Exchange responsibility for control of waste processing operations

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Hand over responsibility for the control of the waste process to an incoming operator, Accept responsibility for the control of waste processing from an outgoing operator
    • Use and communicate data and information required for the handover process, Re
    • solve problems for the control of waste processing which arise during the exchange of responsibility
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for exchanging responsibility for control of waste processing operations
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    19

    Generate and retain waste and resource management business

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Contribute to the generation of business
    • Contribute to the retention of business
    • Use and communicate data and information
    • Report problems which could affect the generation and retention of waste and resource management business
    • Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements for managing waste operations
    • Understand the specific regulation procedures and requirements for generating and retaining waste and resource management business
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    20

    Identify and evaluate sustainable resources in a waste environment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify and evaluate sustainable resources
    • Understand how to identify and evaluate sustainable resources
    21

    Implement change in own area of responsibility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to implement change in own area of responsibility.
    • Be able to involve and support others through the change process.
    • Be able to implement and monitor a plan for change in own area of responsibility.
    22

    Inspection of vehicles used in waste management facilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Carry out inspections of vehicles and associated equipment
    • Use and communicate data and information connected with inspections, Re
    • solve problems which arise from inspections of vehicles and associated equipment
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for inspection of vehicles used in waste management facilities
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    23

    Maintain the condition of waste process equipment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Confirm waste processing equipment conforms to operational requirements, Clean
    • maintain and adjust waste process equipment to specification
    • Use and communicate data and information, Re
    • solve problems which arise from maintaining waste processing equipment
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for maintaining the condition of waste process equipment
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    24

    Maintain the security of waste management facilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Maintain the security of the premises, equipment and materials
    • Use and communicate data and information, Re
    • solve problems which arise from maintaining security
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for maintaining the security of waste management facilities
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    25

    Maintain Vehicle Crew Compliance with Operational Requirements

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Maintain vehicle crew compliance with operational requirements
    26

    Make effective decisions

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify circumstances that require a decision to be made.
    • Be able to collect information to inform decision-making.
    • Be able to analyse information to inform decision-making.
    • Be able to make a decision.
    27

    Manage a budget for own area or activity of work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare a budget for own area of responsibility.
    • Be able to manage a budget.
    • Be able to review budget management performance.
    28

    Manage and maintain effective systems for responding to emergencies

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Implement emergency plans and procedures
    • Maintain effective response to emergencies through the use of procedures and drills
    • Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements for managing waste operations
    • Understand the specific regulation procedures and requirements for managing and maintaining effective systems for responding to emergencies
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    29

    Manage customer care programs to improve waste management services

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Obtain and analyse feedback from customers on waste and resource management services, Make recommendations to improve services to customers
    • Use and communicate data and information, Re
    • solve problems which arise from identifying opportunities to improve services to customers
    • Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements for managing waste operations
    • Understand the specific regulation procedures and requirements for managing customer care programs to improve waste management services
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    30

    Manage own professional development within an organisation

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to assess own career goals and personal development.
    • Be able to set personal work objectives.
    • Be able to produce a personal development plan.
    • Be able to implement and monitor own personal development plan.
    31

    Manage the traffic office

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how to manage the traffic office
    • Be able to manage the traffic office
    32

    Manage the transfer of outputs and disposal of residues from remediation of contaminated land

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Manage the transfer of outputs and the disposal of residues from remediation of contaminated land
    • Use and communicate data and information to enable compliance with legislative and organisational requirements, Re
    • solve problems which arise from the transfer of outputs and the disposal of residues from remediation of contaminated land
    • Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements for managing waste operations
    • Understand the specific regulation procedures and requirements for the transfer of outputs and disposal of residues from remediation of contaminated land
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    33

    Manual handling, lifting and moving of loads in a waste environment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to prepare forhandling and lifting loads
    • Understand procedures andinstructions for handling and lifting loads
    • Be able to handle and lift loads
    34

    Operate the Weighbridge

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Carry out prestart checks on the weighbridge
    • Operate the weighbridge, Shut down and secure the weighbridge
    35

    Oversee waste process operations

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Prepare equipment and materials to treat waste
    • Monitor and control waste process operations, Shutdown the processing operations
    • Use and communicate data and information connected with waste process operations, Re
    • solve problems which arise from running waste process operations
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for overseeing waste process operations
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    36

    Participate in meetings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare for a meeting.
    • Be able to participate in a meeting.
    • Be able to communicate information to relevant stakeholders.
    37

    Plan an organisation’s workforce

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify workforce requirements for an organisation.
    • Be able to review the current workforce of an organisation against identified requirements.
    • Be able to plan how an organisation’s workforce requirements will be met.
    • Be able to communicate workforce plans to relevant individuals.
    38

    Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to produce a work plan for own area of responsibility.
    • Be able to allocate and agree responsibilities with team members.
    • Be able to monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility and provide feedback.
    • Be able to review and amend plans of work for own area of responsibility and communicate changes.
    39

    Plan, allocate and monitor work of a team

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to plan work for a team.
    • Be able to allocate work across a team.
    • Be able to manage team members to achieve team objectives.
    • Be able to monitor and evaluate the performance of team members.
    • Be able to improve the performance of a team.
    40

    Provide leadership in area of responsibility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to provide leadership in own area of responsibility
    • Understand behaviours that underpin effective performance to provide leadership in own area of responsibility
    41

    Recruit staff in own area of responsibility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to review human resource requirements to meet business objectives in own area of responsibility.
    • Understand the importance of ensuring that recruitment and selection processes meet legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements.
    • Be able to participate in the recruitment and selection process.
    • Be able to evaluate the recruitment and selection process and identify improvements for the future.
    42

    Review the quality of customer service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • plan how to measure customer service, collect and analyse information on customer service
    • understand how to review the quality of customer service
    43

    Set objectives and provide support for team members

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to communicate a team’s purpose and objectives to the team members.
    • Be able to develop a plan with team members showing how team objectives will be met.
    • Be able to support team members identifying opportunities and providing support.
    • Be able to monitor and evaluate progress and recognise individual and team achievement.
    44

    Supervise health and safety in the working environment for waste management activities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Supervise activities in compliance with health and safety legislation and approved workplace processes and procedures
    • Use and communicate data and information in line with operational procedures, Re
    • solve problems which could affect health and safety
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for Supervising health and safety in the working environment for waste management activities
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    45

    Supervise the work of others

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan and delegate work activities within own area of responsibility
    • Manage the timely and safe completion of work activities
    • Use and communicate data and information when supervising others, Re
    • solve problems which arise when supervising and working with others
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for supervising the work of others
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    46

    Support customer service improvements

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • use feedback to identify potential customer service improvements
    • implement changes in customer service, assist with the evaluation of changes in customer service
    • know how to support customer service improvements
    47

    Support learning and development within own area of responsibility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify the learning needs of colleagues in own area of responsibility.
    • Understand how to develop a learning environment in own area of responsibility.
    • Be able to support colleagues in learning and its application.
    • Be able to evaluate learning outcomes and future learning and development of colleagues.
    48

    Validation of waste

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Validate waste, Re
    • solve problems which arise from the validation of waste
    • Understand the regulations, procedures and requirements for the validation of waste
    • Work in a manner which underpins effective performance
    49

    Work productively with colleagues and stakeholders

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to provide colleagues and stakeholders with information.
    • Be able to consult with colleagues and stakeholders in relation to decisions or activities.
    • Understand the importance of fulfilling agreements and honouring commitments made to colleagues and stakeholders.
    • Understand how to manage potential conflicts of interest.
    • Understand how to be able to monitor working relationships.
    • Be able to review and improve the effectiveness of working relationships..
    50

    Work with others to improve customer service

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • improve customer service by working with others
    • monitor their own performance when improving customer service
    • monitor team performance when improving customer service
    • understand how to work with others to improve customer service

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    501/1853/5
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    CIWM
    Qualification Type
    Occupational Qualification
    Operational Start
    Sept 2010