NQF Level 1: National Certificate: Hygiene and Cleaning Services
SAQA QUAL ID – 57937
Purpose:
The primary purpose of this qualification is to develop in a learner, the foundational, practical and reflexive competencies required for a career in the Hygiene & Cleaning Services Industry.
Central to the qualification is the development of a culture of quality service and professionalism in a cleaning services environment. This qualification intends to produce cleaners who can find gainful employment in the cleaning industry.
This qualification will enable learners to access learning in a related field (e.g. Hospitality, Health Care, Wholesale and Retail, Food Production or Manufacturing etc), or a related branch of cleaning (e.g. Industrial, Hospital, Car Wash, Dry Cleaning and Laundry, Garden Services, Aircraft Cleaning or Textile Cleaning etc.).
Rationale:
The range of typical learners will include cleaners, team leaders, supervisors, temporary or relief cleaners and emerging entrepreneurs who currently, or who aspire, to operate in the cleaning industry at large.
It is recognised that Cleaning is a ‘feeder’ industry from which learners can move into other related sectors.
This qualification is designed as the first qualification in the learning pathway in the cleaning sector and is suited to the following occupations:
- Cleaner.
- Laundry assistant.
- Car wash attendant.
- Garden services.
- Relief cleaner.
- Room attendants.
- Ward hostess.
- Domestic worker.
- Sculler.
NQF Level 1: National Certificate: Transport and Logistics Operations
SAQA QUAL ID – 59300
Purpose:
The purpose of this qualification is to provide learners with entry-level knowledge, skills and attitudes for the transport and logistics sector of the South African economy. Furthermore, qualifying learners will be afforded the choice of specialisation in any of the modes of transport. The range of typical learners will include:
Unemployed learners with accessibility for employment within the sector.
Currently employed learners with a planned combination of learning outcomes, thereby promoting flexibility to pursue further studies across all sectors of industry.
Access for all learners to formal education and recognition of current skills.
Learners credited with this qualification will be able to:
Explain the composition of the supply chain in relation to their role in the transport and logistics industry.
Apply the relevant health, safety, security and environmental legislation, policies, and practices within the transport and logistics industry.
Demonstrate life-skills and entry-level workplace skills in the transport and logistics environment.
