WAMITAB (the Waste Management Industry Training & Advisory Board) was established in 1989 by CIWM and other waste sector trade bodies.

Solely owned by CIWM since 2017, it is a not-for-profit body with charitable status and its own Board of Trustees.

Back in 2021, they made the decision to merge the two organisations and now CIWM is the Awarding Organisation and End Point Assessment Organisation for all qualifications and apprenticeships previously offered by WAMITAB.

All WAMITAB qualifications will be referred to as ‘CIWM (WAMITAB) Qualifications’ and Centres offering these qualifications will become ‘CIWM (WAMITAB) Qualifications Centres.

The WAMITAB website has largely remained the same in terms of content and style, with the exception of logos and a few minor tweaks, their website address has changed to ciwmquals.co.uk, appose to wamitab.org.uk.

They have also created new logo's such as the one below, which will be used across their certificates, documents, presentations, course notes, literature, communications and websites.

What does this mean to you?

1.   CIWM will take ownership of your qualification registration and the certification of your qualification on completion.

2.   Any certificates issued will be branded as CIWM.

3.   Your qualification title will change very slightly, to include CIWM within the title, WAMITAB will also be referenced in brackets in the title. For example, ‘CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 4 Certificate in Waste and Resource Management’.

4.    CIWM are working closely with key industry stakeholders and the broader sector to ensure that the change in certificate is well recognised, which will include regulators such as the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales. Employers and Regulators will still be able to check the validity of your qualification by scanning the QR code on the certificate, which will take you directly to the quartz system used to record learner registration and certification.
 

5.   If you have previously achieved a WAMITAB qualification and require replacement certificates, these will be issued by CIWM.

7.   Your personal data will continue to be used only for the purposes of administering and awarding your qualification, and for confirming your achievement to legitimate parties such as the Environment Agency.

Please note, this does not change the requirement to achieve the appropriate technical competence for a permitted facility, the only thing that has changed is the awarding organisation which will change from WAMITAB to CIWM and minor changes to the scheme itself which previously included both organisations. 

If you have any questions regarding any of the above, don't hesitate to contact us by emailing info@hsecservices.co.uk.