Gain practical, regulated knowledge to help identify, manage and improve environmental performance across your organisation.
Designed for managers, supervisors and developing professionals who need a clear understanding of organisational environmental management.
Understand the environmental responsibilities increasingly built into operational roles.
Broaden your remit where environmental management overlaps with compliance and risk.
Build awareness of impacts, controls, legislation, monitoring and improvement.
Create a regulated foundation before moving into higher-level sustainability roles.
The ProQual unit contains eight major learning outcomes. SHEC Learning® presents them as eight clear learning modules.
60-question multiple-choice examination
90 minutes available
Pass / fail result
This is SHEC Learning®’s current approved-centre delivery arrangement.
ProQual describes internally assessed evidence across the qualification, with external quality assurance. Permitted methods include assignments, projects, reports, worksheets, portfolio evidence and questioning.
Progression should reflect your experience, responsibilities and career direction—not simply follow the next number.
Core environmental-management knowledge for emerging responsibility.
For experienced practitioners with broader sustainability responsibility.
Explore Level 6 →For senior leaders shaping environmental strategy and organisational performance.
Explore Level 7 →A regulated Level 3 qualification providing foundation knowledge in organisational environmental management.
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There is one mandatory ProQual unit. Its eight major learning outcomes are structured by SHEC as eight learning modules.
30 Total Qualification Time hours, including 20 Guided Learning Hours.
ProQual specifies no formal entry requirements.
No. It is a foundation knowledge Award and does not by itself demonstrate occupational competence.
SHEC Learning® delivers the course entirely through e-learning, with six months of course access.
The current SHEC Learning® offer uses a 60-question multiple-choice examination with 90 minutes available.
It introduces relevant environmental-management-system and ISO-standard concepts. It does not make you an ISO 14001-certified auditor.
Yes, particularly where environmental responsibility is becoming part of the role. As an entry-level e-learning course, no suitability assessment is required.
Enrol online or speak with SHEC Learning® about your environmental career pathway.
ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management – For Contracts Managers, Directors & Senior Professionals
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Progress to Senior Construction Management with Confidence The ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Construction Contracting Operations Management is designed for experienced construction professionals, including Contracts Managers, Commercial Managers, and Directors. This course provides a structured and recognised way to formalise your expertise across multi-site operations, specialist contracting, and strategic project oversight. No exams. Assessment is based entirely on workplace evidence and performance. You’ll receive full one-to-one support to complete a tailored portfolio aligned to your current role. CITB Levy-paying companies can reclaim a £600 achievement grant upon completion.
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Accredited Certification
Earn a ProQual Level 6 NVQ Diploma.
Flexible Study
Learn at your own pace while working.
15 Months Access
Manage your time and fit the course around your projects.
CITB Grant Available
Eligible employers can claim £600.
Ideal for Contracting Professionals
Recognised route for commercial and operational leaders.
You’ll complete 4 core units and choose 4 optional units from 13 available, building a robust portfolio with support from your dedicated assessor.
4 Mandatory Units – Levels 5–6
Ideal for those in Contracts Management, Commercial Leadership, or company Director roles. Formalise your capabilities with an industry-recognised qualification.
Gain credentials to move into larger roles across multiple projects, disciplines, or regions.
Secure a recognised qualification and formalise your expertise to progress in construction management roles.
Advanced NVQ for Senior Construction Professionals
Demonstrate your ability to lead construction operations, manage contracts, and ensure safe, effective project delivery.
Guided by Industry Experts
Our assessors are experienced contracting and project professionals who provide clear guidance and mentoring throughout.
Evidence-Based, Real-World Learning
Submit practical documentation—meeting records, site plans, costings, method statements, and safety records—to complete your portfolio.
Flexible, Work-Aligned Assessment
All assessment is integrated with your existing work. No disruption, no exams. Just real results.
Claim the CITB Grant
Get up to £600 back if your organisation is CITB Levy registered.
It’s a vocational qualification that recognises your leadership in contracting, project planning, and operations management across construction projects. It’s ideal for professionals working in Building & Civil Engineering, Highways, Maintenance, or multi-site projects.
Demonstrate your competence in commercial, planning, procurement, surveying and technical construction functions through authentic workplace evidence, with GQA or ProQual awarding-body routes.
SHEC Learning® supports experienced construction professionals to demonstrate management competence through real work, decisions and outcomes.
Control contracts, costs, commercial performance or operations across projects.
Manage procurement, suppliers, tenders and supply-chain performance.
Evaluate project requirements, develop programmes and manage tendering activity.
Carry relevant surveying, design coordination, project-information or commercial responsibilities.
The ProQual route requires nine units in total, with four options selected from fourteen. GQA requirements are confirmed separately during your initial assessment.
There is no single traditional final examination. Your portfolio must demonstrate the knowledge, understanding and workplace performance required by the selected units.
Procurement schedules, supplier reviews, tender evaluations, programmes, meeting records, team objectives, project requirement reviews, design coordination, contract reports, cost controls, valuations and final accounts where relevant.
Survey records and health, safety and welfare management evidence may also support the selected criteria.
Demonstrate competence through genuine workplace products, reports, projects and assessor observation where required. Complete knowledge workbooks for knowledge outcomes. Your assessor maps the evidence to your selected units; professional discussion and witness testimony are not used for competence outcomes.
Prior learning may count where evidence is authentic, current, relevant and sufficient. It does not provide automatic exemption from assessment.
Agree how to redact commercially sensitive information with your assessor while preserving enough detail to authenticate your contribution.
This route can support relevant contracting, buying, estimating, planning and surveying occupations where CSCS accepts the qualification. The occupational match and card requirements must be checked individually.
Complete the appropriate NVQ and unit combination for the work you perform.
Check and complete the applicable Managers and Professionals HS&E test within the required validity period.
CSCS checks the occupation, qualification and current requirements. The NVQ does not automatically issue a card.
Centres on commercial, procurement, planning, surveying, technical and contracting functions. Evidence may span multiple projects or specialist contracting operations.
Centres on day-to-day management of live site production, resources, quality, programme, safety and delivery.
Consider Level 7 when your work develops into broader senior organisational leadership and your evidence supports that responsibility.
Consider an inspection qualification where your role centres on quality monitoring, technical information, progress and handover.
Yes. SHEC Learning® offers GQA and ProQual routes. We confirm the awarding body, qualification requirements and suitable optional units during the initial review.
The ProQual qualification requires five mandatory units and four optional units selected from fourteen. GQA requirements are confirmed separately.
Yes. You need genuine responsibility and access to authentic workplace evidence. This is not an introductory course for someone without relevant occupational experience.
Assessment is competence based through a workplace portfolio and professional assessment rather than a single traditional final examination.
Potentially, where it is authentic, sufficiently current, relevant and verifiable. Your assessor determines whether it meets the assessment criteria.
It may match contracting responsibilities, but the specific CSCS occupation can require a different qualification route. Confirm your intended occupation and whether Level 7 is required before enrolling.
No. This is an NVQ Diploma. Qualifications can share a framework level while differing in purpose, structure and assessment.
The current full-payment price is £1,495. VAT may apply. Payment-plan totals differ; confirm your chosen option and terms before enrolment.
You have 15 months to complete the qualification. Your pace depends on your competence, selected units and evidence access. Agree a practical assessment plan at induction and check extension terms if additional time is needed.
Eligible CITB-registered employers may be able to claim an achievement grant, subject to current rules and eligibility. Check funding before relying on it.
Tell SHEC Learning® about your current role, commercial, planning, procurement or technical responsibilities, evidence access and intended CSCS occupation. We will check the route and unit choices before you enrol.
Becoming a fire risk assessor requires more than learning how to complete a form. Professional competence develops through fire-safety knowledge, appropriate qualifications, practical experience, professional judgement, accurate reporting, continuing professional development and working within the limits of your competence.
There is no single route for everyone. Your right starting point depends on what you can already demonstrate.
Your existing knowledge and experience determine where development should begin. General Health & Safety experience is valuable, but it does not automatically prove occupational fire-risk-assessment competence.
Build a Foundation-level understanding before progressing into supervised assessment activity and real building experience.
Use transferable risk skills while developing specific fire-safety knowledge, building understanding and practical FRA experience.
Develop specialist competence around the premises, occupants, management systems and fire precautions you work with.
Map current evidence against modern competence expectations, identify genuine gaps and progress at the appropriate level.
Foundation development for people building specific fire-risk-assessment knowledge.
Intermediate development with substantially more practical competence and professional reporting.
The government has committed to introducing mandatory independent certification for fire risk assessors in England. The consultation closed on 18 June 2026. As of September 2026, the final framework and implementation arrangements have not yet been brought into force.
This means fire risk assessment is not currently a regulated profession with mandatory certification, although assessors must still be competent for the work they undertake and duty holders must ensure assessments are suitable and sufficient.
This section should be reviewed when government proposals or legislation change.
Structured learning and assessment against defined outcomes, awarded by a regulated awarding organisation.
Independent verification of competence against the rules and standards of a certification scheme.
Recognition through a professional register or body, normally subject to competence, conduct and CPD requirements.
Completing a SHEC qualification does not automatically provide certification, professional registration or unrestricted competence.
✓ Observe experienced and competent assessors.
✓ Begin with simpler, lower-risk premises.
✓ Complete supervised assessment activity.
✓ Receive feedback on findings and reports.
✓ Build evidence across different premises and scenarios.
✓ Develop knowledge of construction and fire protection.
✓ Increase complexity gradually.
✓ Refer work beyond your competence to specialists.
No single degree route is required. You need relevant knowledge, training, experience and other qualities appropriate to the work you undertake.
Yes, but general H&S experience alone is not enough. You must develop fire-specific knowledge and supervised practical experience.
Yes. Facilities and property experience can be a strong starting point, provided fire-specific competence is developed and evidenced.
Potentially. Current ProQual entry permits the Level 3 Award or at least three years’ proven occupational fire-risk-assessment experience, subject to suitability assessment.
Knowledge can be developed online, but professional competence also requires practical experience, assessment activity and evidence that cannot be replaced by online study alone.
There is no universal timescale. It depends on your starting knowledge, access to practical experience, qualification route and the scope of work you intend to undertake.
It is a framework describing competence for individual fire risk assessors at Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced levels. It is not itself a qualification or a step-by-step assessment method.
No. Competence must always be matched to the premises, risks and complexity of the assessment.
Tell SHEC about your background, experience and intended role. We will help you identify the development route that matches what you can already demonstrate.