Description

This qualification has seven specialisms/pathways, of which Excavation and Reinstatement is one of them. This pathway has been developed for achievement in a real workplace environment which means the learner needs to be employed to undertake this pathway.

All learners will be assessed by an occupationally competent and qualified assessor whose job is to work with the learner and help the learner complete the pathway.

The learner will learn key practical skills and knowledge in these mandatory units:

• Forming and finishing excavations manually in the workplace
• Reinstating trenches in paved surfaces in the workplace
• Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace
• Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace.

The learner will learn key practical skills and knowledge in one of these optional units:

• Locating and excavating to expose buried utility services in the workplace
• Controlling, directing and guiding the operation of plant or machinery in the workplace
• Moving, handling and storing resources in the workplace
• Installing drainage in the workplace
• Slinging and hand signalling the movement of suspended loads in the workplace
• Setting out secondary dimensional work control in the workplace
• Preparing and operating powered units, tools or pedestrian plant, machinery or equipment in the workplace
• Preparing to and directing and guiding the movement of vehicles, plant or machinery in the workplace
• Preparing and operating ride-on rollers to compact materials in the workplace
• Preparing and operating forward tipping dumpers to receive, transport and discharge materials in the workplace
• Identifying and marking the location of utilities apparatus and sub-structures in the workplace
• Installing, maintaining and removing temporary excavation support in the workplace
• Installing street ironwork in the workplace (metal, plastic, concrete and composite materials)
• Segregating the area for the highways works in the workplace
• Preparing and mixing construction related materials in the workplace
• Cutting, drilling and shaping construction related materials in the workplace
• Installing, maintaining and removing work area protection and safety equipment in the workplace
• Placing and finishing non-specialist concrete in the workplace.

Age requirement: 16+

Topics

Conforming to General Health, Safety and Welfare in the Workplace

The aim of this unit is to illustrate the skills, knowledge and understanding required to confirm competence in conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace within the relevant sector of industry.

Conforming to Productive Working Practices in the Workplace

The aim of this unit is to illustrate the skills, knowledge and understanding required to confirm competence in conforming to productive work practices in the workplace within the relevant sector of industry.

Forming and finishing excavations manually in the workplace

The aim of this unit is to illustrate the skills, knowledge and understanding required to confirm competence in forming and finishing excavations manually in the workplace within the relevant sector of industry.

Reinstating trenches in paved surfaces in the workplace

The aim of this unit is to illustrate the skills, knowledge and understanding required to confirm competence in reinstating trenches in paved surfaces in the workplace within the relevant sector of industry.