Concrete Hand Grade 1
Duration: 20 Days
Entry Assumption: Concrete Hand Grade 2
Course Content:
Maintain construction site safety & health procedures
1. Accept your role in maintaining health & safety standards
2. Examine the need for a good housekeeping policy
Establish & prepare a work area
1. Read & interpret specifications & drawings
2. Determine infrastructure & resource requirements
3. Prepare the work area
Read & interpret basic drawings
1. Identify basic drawings
2. Identify drawing details
Describe the fundamentals of concrete Part 1 & 2
1. Recognise the properties of concrete
2. Identify concrete materials
3. Describe the fundamentals of placing, compacting & curing
4. Conduct site sampling & testing
5. Follow the basic rules of mix design
6. Identify the considerations given to ready mix deliveries
7. Recognise common finishes, defects & repairs
Monitor & control cost & production of a construction work activity & implement productivity improvements
1. Plan site requirements
2. Locate stores areas
3. Identify temporary service requirements
4. Identify accommodation requirements
5. Identify any transport requirements
6. Consider systems & record keeping
7. Plan plant & machinery requirements
8. Consider plant & machinery maintenance
9. Select suitable plant & machinery
10. Interpret bar charts
11. Plan daily workloads & resources
12. Plan weekly workloads & resources
13. Draw up a daily & weekly programme
Resolve Industrial Relation problems
1. Follow the stages of a grievance procedure
2. Follow the stages of a disciplinary procedure
Reinforcing Grade 1
Duration: 20 Days
Entry Assumptions: Reinforcing Grade 2
Course Content:
Extract information from Bending Schedules & Shape Codes to do:
1. Drawings & sketches without assistance
Interpret all documents & work to SABS 1200 G
Identify & select reinforcing for combinations
Set out & mark for combinations of work pieces
Make up & fix combinations:
1. With Circular Work
2. Beam, Column & Slab
3. Staircase/ Landing/ Second Lift
4. Around apertures & openings
5. Inspect to correct work & hand over for concreting